Twenty-nine senators signed a letter to President Obama recently urging him to leave Social Security and Medicare “off the table” when dicussing budget cuts and deficit reduction with Republicans. Their concern is that Obama will try to strike some kind of “bipartisan grand bargain” in an effort to avoid going off the fiscal cliff. This sounds troublingly familiar and I hope the President does not go there. But so far two important names have not been affixed to that letter: Colorado Senators Michael Bennet and Mark Udall. So, I’m asking the two of you here to sign on now. If you can’t do that, then please have the good sense to know that voting in favor of any kind of “hard-fought compromise” will be met with a huge backlash that will not be pretty for your political futures. Just saying……
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