Monday, July 25, 2011
Ready. willing and able
Dr Krugman discusses the president's willingness to sacrifice Medicare in search of a "Grand Bargain". After running through the positive side of Medicare, the good Dr. ask the Million Dollar Question, why.
So why is the president embracing these bad policy ideas? In a forthcoming article in The New York Review of Books, the veteran journalist Elizabeth Drew suggests that members of the White House political team saw the 2010 election as a referendum on government spending and that they believe that cutting spending is the way to win next year.I just love the way those who have it all are so willing to sacrifice others for their foolish beliefs.
If so, I would respectfully suggest that they are out of their minds. Remember death panels? The G.O.P.’s most potent political weapon last year — the weapon that caused a large swing in the votes of older Americans — was the claim that Mr. Obama was cutting Medicare. Why give Republicans a chance to do it all over again?
Of course, it’s possible that the reason the president is offering to undermine Medicare is that he genuinely believes that this would be a good idea. And that possibility, I have to say, is what really scares me.
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No shit Cisco! bama and his dim friend can all kiss my you know what clear up to the brown. Just the idea incenses some - like me and for all the right reasons.
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