"As the 2016 campaign approaches, the hot idea in Democratic Party circles is to increase Social Security benefits. Last month, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) staged a vote on a “sustainable expansion” resolution in the Senate, garnering 42 “yeas” and laying down a new orthodoxy from which only two members of her party’s caucus deviated.
Meanwhile, in Iowa, potential presidential contender Martin O’Malley, former governor of Maryland, came out in favor of higher benefits, putting pressure on front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton to follow suit.
Progressives are patting themselves on the back for shifting the terms of a fiscal policy debate that has allegedly been unduly tilted in favor of deficit “hawks.”"
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