They're coming for your Social Security — DCCC Chair Van Hollen joins the catfood crowd

This is an excellent segment by Cenk Uygur, subbing for Ed Schultz on The Ed Show.

First, Cenk bottom-lines the phony Social Security "crisis":

• There's a $2.5 trillion trust fund.
  
• They gave it to the rich and the military.

So clear, so obvious. (Our own discussion of the Trust Fund is here.)

Then Cenk interviews Democrat Chris Van Hollen, head of the DCCC (that's Rahm's old job; that's how we ended up with ilk like Heath Shuler). Ignore Van Hollen's pro forma Repub bashing; focus instead on Cenk's follow-up questions (starting at the 3:15 mark).



Would you like some Friskies with that obfuscation?

Van Hollen's weasel words are toast under these questions. "We won't cut benefits (but please don't notice I didn't mention the retirement age)." Note: Pelosi's an enabler; she has guaranteed a vote in the House on the Catfood Deficit Commission's "big complex" recommendations. (Click the link to see how she pulled that off.)

Social Security is also toast. Again, the DCCC is Rahm's old stomping grounds; it's the reason the Blue Dogs exist in such numbers. And Van Hollen runs the DCCC through the end of 2010 festivities.

It's gonna happen, folks. It's the end of an era, and Dems will be the reason. Like Nixon to China — Cenk said it right in his sign-off.

(Psst. Primaries.)

GP