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Don't miss the excellent wrap-up piece by Bob Cusack in The Hill about who won and who lost in the supercommittee superfiasco. Today I focus on the mother of all winners, the person the sexist Herman Cain called "princess," who struck the mother lode of being a huge winner in this deal: Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats. House Democrats were given another great gift this week when Newt Gingrich launched another attack on Social Security by reviving that tired GOP dog of private accounts.

Remember, Democrats won a major midterm election in a historically Republican district over the issue of Medicare. Since then, the Republicans have proposed even greater attacks on Medicare, in effect suggesting Medicare be turned into a subsidy for insurance companies. Of course, the collapsed Rick Perry once called Social Security a Ponzi scheme.

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