Harry Reid's Ticking Entitlement Time-Bomb — The New Atlantis

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is scrambling today to pick up the pieces from his collapsing “breakthrough deal” between moderates and liberals. It seems the Senate’s top Democrat rushed out with a compromise plan that none of the critical players had actually agreed to support. At the center of the storm is Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman, who is an independent but caucuses with his Democratic colleagues. Because of how he was last reelected — in spite of, not thanks to, the national Democratic party — Senator Lieberman owes the Obama administration nothing. For months, Senator Lieberman has warned his colleagues...