What is up with the Daily Caller? I thought it was supposed to be a conservative version of Huffington Post/Daily Beast. But yesterday they ran a negative piece on Michele Bachmann (that Rush smacked down) and now today a negative gossipy piece about Paul Ryan's budget. What gives?
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Just what the Demonrats ordered - splitting up the Republicans and getting them to fight each other.
I think that they should sign on with Newt as soon as possible.
It will make the culling of the herd so much easier in the coming primaries.
Bring it on, RINOs!
Actually, The Donald was the first to criticize it.
This is what we can call a manufactured storyline. They quote a 2009 poll...ignoring the past 24 months of political events. Their basis is that this plan ends Medicare...it doesn’t. They act as if Ryan’s plan impacts current senior’s plans....it doesn’t. They act as if seniors are rejecting the plan...they are not.
This better be not true.
Ryan’s plan does not “drastically alter” Medicare for anyone presently in it or soon to enter the program. It provides more choices for people who are just now entering the workforce.
If the GOPers follow Gingrich’s lead, they will receive the same lethal drubbing Gingrich received.
This article makes no sense at all. All polling shows that seniors are one of the demographics MOST behind the Ryan plan.
Other GOPers likely to follow Gingrich’s lead in criticizing Ryan’s budget plan
and right over the edge of the cliff and into obscurity....
America has a choice.
Alter the entitlement programs or go down the tubes.
Make your choice. Newt made his and his is the path to bankruptcy.
An adult! My kingdom for an adult!
At some point, people are going to realize the following:
The choice is NOT between “Medicare as we know it” and Paul Ryan’s plan.
The choice is between “Medicare as we know it” for people only up to a certain age and then NOTHING. Or be prepared to multiply Medicare taxes from 1.45% (employee & employer) to 14.50 (employee & employer). Yes, times ten. As the massive baby boomer generation enters the program. That should put the final nail in the economic coffin around here.
This is why health insurance (and all insurance policies) have maximum coverage limits; it is required to be able to price them. Medicare is essentially an insurance policy with NO coverage limits. That is why predicting it’s future cost with confidence is impossible. (There are other reasons, but that is the main one.)
While some people will gently go into that good night, as we learned of Harmon Killebrew this past week, others will not. I have a former mother in law, who, if she found out tomorrow that the only treatment that could save her life costs $ 10,000,000.00 and only offered 50/50 odds, would insist on it, provided Medicare was going to pay for it. She’s 85.
And yes, if you’re wondering....she’s a former gov’t employee.
One Florida Democrat source familiar with the state’s political process told TheDC that “Floridians of all stripes — Democrats, Republicans and independents — are rightly concerned about the Republicans fighting to end Medicare.”
The source went on to predict that the Republican mantra for the 2012 election will be: “I am not Paul Ryan.”
Oh and Larry Sabato.....*roll eyes*
Utter BS. The MSM portrays seniors ignorant, easily scared and greedy when it comes to entitlement reform. Anything that stops the gravy train allegedly will spook them like a herd of cattle to stampede against any politician who proposes it. I don't believe it. In townhall meetings and even in polls, seniors seem willing to go for common sense reforms that don't cut into what they need to live but which curtail growth. As a prior poster pointed out, most plans do absolutely nothing to cut benefits for seniors or those close to retirement. I don't see how that is going to cause seniors to vote against the the GOP.
Any GOP member of the House or Senate, or any presidential candiate, who says anything against the Ryan plan and who defends current entitlements the way they are deserves to lose. They disgust me. Gingrich disgusts me.
There is a way to acknowledge the concerns seniors have without trashing Paul Ryan.
There is a way to acknowledge the concerns seniors have without trashing Paul Ryan.
I'm a senior citizen, and I am ANGRY at the attacks on Ryan. Anyone want to form a "Senior Citizens Against Republican Faint-hearts?" [SCARF!]
We could form a PAC and smother these cowards in their beds.
Looks like the GOP has finally found something it is good at. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.