'AmericaSpeaks' Deficit Town Hall Meetings In Perspective

AmericaSpeaks, an organization funded in part by the conservative Peter G. Peterson Foundation, sponsored a series of town hall meetings designed to build public support for eviscerating the social contract between Americans and the most economically vulnerable among us, particularly those on Social Security and Medicare. Did the right-wing deficit hawks get the mandate they hoped for? We don't think so, and these articles explain why.