They're against repealing the Bush tax cuts on the top 2% but they're for deep cuts in Social Security and a sharp rise in the retirement age.  And they want your vote.

House Minority Leader John Boehner wants to pay for the war in Afghanistan with "entitlement* cuts" but is unwilling to countenance the rolling back Bush's tax break for the super-rich. 

Krugman calls it a "cruel attack on working Americans".

The currently fashionable idea of raising the retirement age even more than it will rise under existing law — it has already gone from 65 to 66, it’s scheduled to rise to 67, but now some are proposing that it go to 70 — is usually justified with assertions that life expectancy has risen, so people can easily work later into life. But that’s only true for affluent, white-collar workers — the people who need Social Security least.

I’m not just talking about the fact that it’s a lot easier to imagine working until you’re 70 if you have a comfortable office job than if you’re engaged in manual labor. America is becoming an increasingly unequal society — and the growing disparities extend to matters of life and death. Life expectancy at age 65 has risen a lot at the top of the income distribution, but much less for lower-income workers. And remember, the retirement age is already scheduled to rise under current law.

They want you to die before you can collect.  Get it? (And if you die in Afghanistan, so much the better.)

But, did I miss something here?  I mean, it's not like you haven't literally earned your share.  Every paycheck they take 6.2% (and double that if you're self-employed). 

And this is the party that's set to win big in the midterms?  Seriously?
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*The GOP is genius at turning value-neutral language into dirty words. "Entitlement" is one such word they've managed to make sound dirty, when in fact, as a legal term, it simply denotes a right granted.  Unfortunately, in casual use it has a negative connotation — the "entitlement mentality" is thinking you're owed something. Which, in the case of Social Security, you are.  That's the point of paying into it all your freaking working life.