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There was, this was a big part of senior opposition to Obama-care in 2010 and seniors voting Republican that year to boot Dems out. But it 2011 Republicans neutralized that advantage they had on the issue with the Ryan plan on medicare,which was for deficit reduction with some tax cuts.

At the same time, we are going broke, and I don't know how to fix that without adjusting entitlements. Maybe the GOP should have not produced a budget, and then been more "flexible" after 2012?

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Maybe the GOP should have not produced a budget, and then been more "flexible" after 2012?

the first time the sinate failed to bother with a budget, the house shouldve simply made it known that no allocations will be made beyond military...

they also couldve refused to spent time considering anything else on the floor w/o a budget, as theres no sense in *cough* legislating anything that cant be paid for...

too bad we didnt have noot greengrinch as speaker the last few yrs...

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RE :”At the same time, we are going broke, and I don't know how to fix that without adjusting entitlements. Maybe the GOP should have not produced a budget, and then been more “flexible” after 2012?”

You mean proposing ‘adjusting’ future entitlements 10 years in the future so that those Republicans proposing it will be safely retired, or voters memory of the act will, before anyone can claim it affected them?

I would have been much more sympathetic if they didn't split the voters into groups by age, the BIG winners and the BIG losers, based on who they need the most, similar to what Dems do.

In 2010 when they were using the Obama-care medicare cuts to their advantage we heard little from them about requiring medicare cuts for the deficit.