People are on edge looking around for what else they have to lose and what they can hang on to. In April, Standard and Poor’s downgraded the national debt rating to 'negative ' the first time it has ever been worse than 'stable.' Country On Edge Voters are contending with high unemployment, shrinking public services and foreclosures. Her victory suggests that Americans–whatever their party–find Ryan’s radical revision of the social contract alarming at such a delicate time in the nation’s economy. Paul Ryan’s 2012 budget proposal, which includes a plan to turn Medicare into a voucher or subsidy program.

Her special election offers insight into what voters think about Rep. Hochul stole a Republican stronghold in western New York by standing up for Medicare-as-we-know it. While women may be missing from Biden’s Beltway team, Kathy Hochul, a 52-year-old Democrat, just made a huge splash in the campaign forecasting over budget politics. The women’s groups are pressing for a meeting with President Barack Obama and Biden to ask that people with expertise on women’s issues be added to the White House’s advisory team working on the budget negotiations. Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., and Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, Budget Director Jack Lew and economic adviser Gene Sperling. Senators John Kyl, R-Ariz., Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, and Max Baucus, D-Mont., Reps. Here’s the membership of the group meeting to break the budget impasse before the August deadline for the government to agree on borrowing more money, so it can pay its bills: House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., U.S. With so much on the line for women in the national budget debate a task force of the National Council of Women’s Organizations this week raised heat on Vice President Joe Biden for the all-male composition of his special team of budget dealmakers.

Hands off medicare