Medicare overhaul proposal causing GOP stress (whack left media goes searching)

YahooNews ^ | 05/24/11 | DAVID ESPO

[AngelesCrestHighway]

WASHINGTON – Little more than a month after they backed sweeping changes to Medicare, Republicans are on the political defensive, losing a House seat long in their possession and exhibiting significant internal strains for the first time since last fall's election gains. "We've got to get beyond this," Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., said recently after several days of back and forth over the proposal he authored and included in the budget that cleared on a party line vote. "And we've got to get onto a serious conversation about what it takes to fix the fiscal problems in this country."

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Republicans on the defensive?.....Liberals looking for anything is more like it.

[Jonah Vark]

Paul Ryan on Running for President: I Can Make a Difference Where I Am

After attacks on his health care plan proposal from people inside his own party, Rep. Paul Ryan says that many Dems are using scare tactics to misrepresent the plan. Ryan seems to take it all in stride saying, “We have a year-and-a-half. In a year-and-a-half the truth will be known.”

Plus, with what some are calling an underwhelming GOP presidential contender line-up thus far, Ryan responds to questions of whether or not he’ll throw his own hat in the ring. As of now, the congressman says he has “no plans” to do that; rather, he wants to make a difference in our nation’s budget from his seat in Congress.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN3eyT0NTxg&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

[FrankR]

[smalltownslick]

They need to turn this around fast and hammer the cuts in Medicare that Obamacare creates.

[Lumper20]

A Yahoo report so a blog/forum answer.

http://www.garynorth.com/public/7789print.cfm

Actually this explanation of the Social Security Trust Fund accounting is something that every senior plus every citizen should read and research.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

The repubics must attack! They have to hammer this stuff. Scare everyone because Obama’s programs are a damn disaster.

[Jonah Vark]

Obama skirts rule of law to reward pals, punish foes

Question: What do the following have in common? Eckert Cold Storage Co., Kerly Homes of Yuma, Classic Party Rentals, West Coast Turf Inc., Ellenbecker Investment Group Inc., Only in San Francisco, Hotel Nikko, International Pacific Halibut Commission, City of Puyallup, Local 485 Health and Welfare Fund, Chicago Plastering Institute Health & Welfare Fund, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee, Teamsters Local 522 Fund Welfare Fund Roofers Division, StayWell Saipan Basic Plan, CIGNA, Caribbean Workers’ Voluntary Employees’ Beneficiary Health and Welfare Plan.

Answer: They are all among the 1,372 businesses, state and local governments, labor unions and insurers, covering 3,095,593 individuals or families, that have been granted a waiver from Obamacare by Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius.

All of which raises another question: If Obamacare is so great, why do so many people want to get out from under it?

More specifically, why are more than half of those 3,095,593 in plans run by labor unions, which were among Obamacare’s biggest political supporters? Union members are only 12 percent of all employees but have gotten 50.3 percent of Obamacare waivers.

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/2011/05/obama-skirts-rule-law-reward-pals-punish-foes#ixzz1NNb3dWuS

[dalebert]

Kill highways to nowhere first

[org.whodat]

Cut the damn size of government first. Damn idiots, you cut government and the the voters will support other cuts, but you have got to cut the hell out of government first. This glide path crap and adding to the size of government is not a winning position.

[oh8eleven]

Republicans on the defensive?
What they need to do is hammer home that all three FAILing programs - SS, Medicare and Medicaid - are Democrat programs, voted into law by Democrat politicians and forced on Americans who had no choice but to comply.
While these programs are costing American taxpayers huge amounts of money, the gov't still spends billions and billions of taxpayer dollars every year on FOREIGN aid.
Americans, and especially American seniors, are neither the problem nor the enemy.

[Lumper20]

Agree. What needs to be stated is it was a Democrat named Moore from Kansas who introduced the legislation to take Social Security “Off Budget” again starting in 1983. Moore proudly claimed this would save Social Security /Medicare. We know what happens to off budget programs.Social security/Medicare is a pile of IOU’s.

[Lumper20]

Agree. What needs to be stated is it was a Democrat named Moore from Kansas who introduced the legislation to take Social Security “Off Budget” again starting in 1983. Moore proudly claimed this would save Social Security /Medicare. We know what happens to off budget programs.Social Security/Medicare is a pile of IOU’s.