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Just as I predicted.
btw, part of this panic is the situation in the upcoming special election in NY 26, a Republican owned district that never goes Democrat and should have been a landslide for the Republican candidate...
...the race is even, and the race is virtually ALL about Medicare.
And so the tables have turned. Thoughts, USMB?
What did Obamacare do to Medicare? Right, cut its funding radically.
who's voting to "dismantle medicare"..?
GOP Freshmen On Medicare Attacks: Let's Let Bygones Be Bygones | TPMDC
House Republican freshmen admit that their so-called "MediScare" attacks on Democrats helped them win a big majority in 2010. Democrats had voted for the health care law, which included $500 billion in "cuts" to Medicare -- primarily slashing overpayments to private insurers -- and Republican challengers never let them forget it.
Now, they say, it's time to let bygones be bygones.
Nearly a dozen House Republican freshmen held a press conference outside the Capitol Tuesday morning to "wipe the slate clean," and "hit the reset button."
"Yeah, I mean there's been -- again, this is a both-sides issue," said Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) when asked if GOP candidates and the NRCC had engaged in 'MediScare' tactics last year. "To say that one side is blameless in trying to use issues to win votes is just dishonest."
On Tuesday, Kinzinger and 41 of his colleagues sent a letter to President Obama, asking him to rein in Democratic attacks on GOP members who voted for the House budget, which includes a plan to privatize Medicare and cap spending on the program.
To preempt the press conference, the DCCC responded to the letter with a long list of NRCC and candidate attack ads and statements from the 2010 election -- all of them targeting Democrats for cutting Medicare, all on behalf of GOP candidates who are now hoping for a truce on Medicare attacks.
And so the tables have turned. Thoughts, USMB?
Dont let Dems do to Medicare what they did to the US housing market!
Oh this is a fun game. We get to reinvent history?
Let me try......
Don't let Repubs do to our middle class what they did to the Jews in WW2.
You have an infant? Somebody fucked you?????Dont let Dems do to Medicare what they did to the US housing market!
Oh this is a fun game. We get to reinvent history?
Let me try......
Don't let Repubs do to our middle class what they did to the Jews in WW2.
Don't let the Democrats do to the country what my infant son did to his diaper this morning.
GOP Freshmen On Medicare Attacks: Let's Let Bygones Be Bygones | TPMDC
House Republican freshmen admit that their so-called "MediScare" attacks on Democrats helped them win a big majority in 2010. Democrats had voted for the health care law, which included $500 billion in "cuts" to Medicare -- primarily slashing overpayments to private insurers -- and Republican challengers never let them forget it.
Now, they say, it's time to let bygones be bygones.
Nearly a dozen House Republican freshmen held a press conference outside the Capitol Tuesday morning to "wipe the slate clean," and "hit the reset button."
"Yeah, I mean there's been -- again, this is a both-sides issue," said Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) when asked if GOP candidates and the NRCC had engaged in 'MediScare' tactics last year. "To say that one side is blameless in trying to use issues to win votes is just dishonest."
On Tuesday, Kinzinger and 41 of his colleagues sent a letter to President Obama, asking him to rein in Democratic attacks on GOP members who voted for the House budget, which includes a plan to privatize Medicare and cap spending on the program.
To preempt the press conference, the DCCC responded to the letter with a long list of NRCC and candidate attack ads and statements from the 2010 election -- all of them targeting Democrats for cutting Medicare, all on behalf of GOP candidates who are now hoping for a truce on Medicare attacks.
And so the tables have turned. Thoughts, USMB?
It makes them look weak. It looks like they're groveling.
Nobody gives a flying fuck about your ignore list.Sounds lie someone is trying to avoid personal responsibility.
Except that they're going to eventually find out that they were sent to DC to do exactly what they're now trying to distance themselves from. If nothing else their political careers are dead if they go through with this.
Holy crap!
They're either really fuckin' desperate or really fuckin' stupid!
How many of them really think this'll work???
I believe they sense that Moljinr is about to reign down on their heads...
It’s as if Republicans hit Democrats with a baseball bat, over and over again, for about a year. Now that Dems, bloodied and bruised, have managed to get their hands on a bat, they’re hearing Republicans proclaim, “Let’s all agree that hitting people with bats is wrong.”
Translation: My posts cannot survive first contact with reality.
Please: Name one entitlement the Dems have vowed to eliminate.
I take it you went from "cut" to "eliminate" because you recognized the utter idiocy of following up a sentence about how the Democrats will never cut entitlements with a jab about how they're cutting Medicare spending.
With your new framing, you've got me--only the Republicans have vowed to eliminate Medicare. And I hope you'll join me in ensuring that no one forgets that bold proposal.
so your defense of the dems not proposing one genuine cut is they cut Medicare?
You have an infant? Somebody fucked you?????Oh this is a fun game. We get to reinvent history?
Let me try......
Don't let Repubs do to our middle class what they did to the Jews in WW2.
Don't let the Democrats do to the country what my infant son did to his diaper this morning.
I guess there really is someone out there for everybody. Scary.
It makes them look weak. It looks like they're groveling.
This was my conclusion as well. I don't think they were expecting the reaction they have been receiving in response to their plan.
It makes them look weak. It looks like they're groveling.
This was my conclusion as well. I don't think they were expecting the reaction they have been receiving in response to their plan.
I give them credit for their plan. We have to start talking about Medicare. Their plan might not be the right one but the Dems are being dishonest not offerring any solutions.
Paul Ryan's plan to end Medicare was looney enough, but when he coupled it with defense spending increases and a huge tax cut for the wealthy he went off the deepest of the deep ends.
It's hard to believe someone that politically tone deaf could be in politics.
If the Dems make Medicare and Paul Ryan's Medicare proposal a big enough issue, the tables will definitely be turned in 2012 with the Dems winning back control of the House. The vast majority of American voters can't think past tomorrow, so their votes are usually highly reactionary.