Recently a reader took me to task for claiming the Republican Party wants to end Social Security and Medicare.
I like reader comments, and encourage them. So I hope that reader- and others- will set me straight on this heading at TPM today:
Cue The Ads: GOP Votes To Privatize Medicare In Election Year
Brave or politically suicidal?
For the second year in a row, Republicans voted Thursday to effectively dismantle Medicare — this time, just over seven months before a presidential election. And Democrats are salivating at the political opportunity, eager to hang the vote around the neck of the party’s presidential nominee and its candidates in tough congressional races.
“A year ago, nobody was talking about Democrats having a shot at the House. Now we’re talking about it,” a Democratic leadership aide told TPM after the vote, a party-line 228-191 that didn’t win a single Dem.
This one, too, from HuffPo:
GOP Candidates Revive Idea Of Privatizing Social Security
WASHINGTON -- Most of the top Republicans running for president are embracing plans to partially privatize Social Security, reviving a contentious issue that fizzled under President George W. Bush after Democrats relentlessly attacked it.
I like reader comments, and encourage them. So I hope that reader- and others- will set me straight on this heading at TPM today:
Cue The Ads: GOP Votes To Privatize Medicare In Election Year
Brave or politically suicidal?
For the second year in a row, Republicans voted Thursday to effectively dismantle Medicare — this time, just over seven months before a presidential election. And Democrats are salivating at the political opportunity, eager to hang the vote around the neck of the party’s presidential nominee and its candidates in tough congressional races.
“A year ago, nobody was talking about Democrats having a shot at the House. Now we’re talking about it,” a Democratic leadership aide told TPM after the vote, a party-line 228-191 that didn’t win a single Dem.
This one, too, from HuffPo:
GOP Candidates Revive Idea Of Privatizing Social Security
WASHINGTON -- Most of the top Republicans running for president are embracing plans to partially privatize Social Security, reviving a contentious issue that fizzled under President George W. Bush after Democrats relentlessly attacked it.
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