It used to be a truism that no elected office-holders would dare to tamper with Social Security if they wished to keep their jobs.
That must not be true any longer, judging from the surge in threats to the revered program coming from the GOP lately.
In its latest manifestation, four Republicans angling to become chair of the House Budget Committee in a Republican House talked openly about holding the federal debt ceiling hostage to an agreement on "entitlements" — that is, Social Security and Medicare — plainly aimed at cutting benefits.
