Is the GOP the party of Medicare?

[mhd24]

Snippet from David Frum:

http://www.frumforum.com/the-party-of-medicare

Kind of weird seeing a switcharoo between Newt's days and today. Everyone with a brain knows medicare has to be reformed drastically, but is there one politician out there willing to say it? Is repealing Medicare part D on the table?

[Larry]

Well, part of Obamacare was to create a panel which would be tasked with finding ways to cut the growth of Medicare.

And the Republican Party unanimously filibustered the proposal, because those evil liberals were going to send old people to the gas chambers for not being desirable members of society.

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And, actually, as to the article:

On the Sean Hannity radio program this afternoon, Speaker-presumptive John Boehner was interestingly cautious about promising actually to do anything in the new Congress.

But there was one thing Boehner did specifically pledge: Republicans would call a vote on restoring President Obama’s cuts to Medicare.

It’s a clever move!

How can Democrats vote no? But how can they vote yes?

At the same time, it’s also a warning of what is to come. You don’t call a vote like that if you are seriously planning to balance the budget. You do it if your priority is to entrap your opponents into paralyzing political predicaments. This is what gridlock looks like: tactical maneuvers, point scoring – and a continuing intensification of all the problems, including the debt, that the parties claim they wish to fix.

Wow. Next thing you know, the Republicans are going to take a law that the Democrats wrote, and which the Republicans have been fighting against for months, but which the voters overwhelmingly want, add a union-busting clause to the law, then claim that the law was a Republican idea, and that the Democrats opposed it.

[twa]

Wasn't there a cost reduction panel before 'reform'?

or am I getting senile

[88Comrade2000]

Hey, the GOP can now also vote to repeal Medicare since they really were never for that. Social Security. Medicad. Come on GOP you want to cut the deficit; then vote to repeal those programs. Then I will believe you are serious about reducing the deficit.