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Derechos Donating Member (892 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 02:41 PM
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Paul Ryan Still Doesn't Get It
Republican House Budget chief Paul Ryan still doesn't get it. He blames Tuesday's upset victory of Democrat Kathy Hochul over Republican Jane Corwin to represent New York's 26th congressional district on Democratic scare tactics.

Hochul had focused like a laser on the Republican plan to turn Medicare into vouchers that would funnel the money to private health insurers. Republicans didn't exactly take it lying down. The National Republican Congressional Committee poured over $400,000 into the race, and Karl Rove's American Crossroads provided Corwin an additional $700,000 of support. But the money didn't work. Even in this traditionally Republican district -- represented in the past by such GOP notables as Jack Kemp and William Miller, both of whom would become vice presidential candidates -- Hochul's message hit home.

Ryan calls it "demagoguery," accusing Hochul and her fellow Democrats of trying to "scare seniors into thinking that their current benefits are being affected."

Scare tactics? Seniors have every right to be scared. His plan would eviscerate Medicare by privatizing it with vouchers that would fall further and further behind the rising cost of health insurance.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/paul-ryan-still-doesnt-ge_b_866922.html
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arbusto_baboso Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 02:43 PM
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1. Oh, he gets it.
He's just learned that he has to lie to cover his true intentions, because Americans are NOT on board with what he and his cronies and controllers have planned.
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katnapped Donating Member (938 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 02:44 PM
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2. Aw come on!
Why wouldn't seniors want $1.00 off coupons for their next surgery? :sarcasm:
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hifiguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 02:46 PM
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3. Ryan is one of those true-believing Randian bozos
who is gonna walk right into the chopper blades and not realize he's dead 'til his head sees his body ten feet away.

The best thing in the world for Dems is this idiot opening his noisehole as often as he can.
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yawnmaster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 02:51 PM
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4. You can say that again! eom
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