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Subscribe to RSSRoll Call sets the table on what’s at stake for Republicans in the coming Senate vote on the Paul Ryan budget: “After seeing GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich get pummeled for calling the House Budget chairman's plan to overhaul Medicare ‘right-wing social engineering,’ Republicans have begun to realize that opposing Ryan does not come without a cost from the party's base. But changing Medicare into a subsidy for private insurance is a big loser in general election polls, and Ryan's plan is giving Democrats new hope that they will take back the House and retain the Senate in 2012.”
Another “pivot” to jobs? “House Republicans are trying again to focus their efforts on a job creation agenda, with leaders acknowledging they want to boost the GOP’s political standing with voters,” Roll Call says, adding, “The majority has struggled to promote a clear vision on how its economic priorities will boost job growth in the private sector. Instead, party leaders have focused most on cutting spending. They instructed Republican committee chairmen to strip away extraneous government regulations that they argue stifle job growth — an effort that is more difficult to translate into a messaging strategy than the catchier Democratic plan dubbed ‘Make It in America.’”
Zing. Roll Call has this headline: “Issa Promised Tough, but So Far Oversight Isn’t.”
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I hope that the Democrats continue to hammer the Republicans-Tea People on the fact that they voted for the Ryan Bill and the Medicare voucher program that kills Grand Ma. Then keep up the heat on the fact of them letting big oil off the hook, and not to mention the fact that these Republicans-Tea People don't want to raise taxes on the top 2%.
Also, we can't forget the games they are playing with the debt ceiling and social security. And still we can't forget how they want to control women and their reproductive rights.
Maybe it would be better for the Democrats to voice ANY kind of solutions since they have put none on the table. All the Democrats can offer people is status quo, an ever increasing spending approach to buy votes, and no debt reduction for the Nation. Can the Nation really be this naive again to think that the Democrats offer a viable alternative? When the Democrats and Obama are willing to come to the table with ANY viaible solutions for the big debt drivers like Medicare and Mediaid, the Republicans will be there to debate and get to a solution for this Nation. Republicans are taking a tough stand that the Democrats offer no alternative to. Sad posts like I have seen out of people like Job 1 only reinforce my belief that some people just never learn or want to deal with reality.
Fed up Senior,
You should do some research on your own and stop listening to these right wing talking points, that are nothing but lies that have their followers stuck on stupid.
Job1 Instead of insulting someone, perhaps you could respond with facts. Trading one insult for another doesn't educate anyone.
As the Tea brains do not appear to have the gray matter necessary to find their own rear ends with both hands and have established no connection with reality let alone the voting public; one would have to conclude that the greatest political threat facing them; is them. They are a "blunder storm" of the highest magnitude, and there is no end in sight. They act like rats trapped in a maze; desperately trying to find a way out. The republicans are self destructing. Obviously a higher power is at work here.
Does the GOP honestly believe the independent voter is going to buy another GOP lie?.... first it was Bush and Compassionate Conservatism (we all saw what that got us).... so they say "we've seen the light!... elect us!)... and of course the voters bought into that... so what do we have jobs?...yea right... abortion, guns, cut medicare/medicaid, more money for defense and tax cuts for the wealthy... even Glen Beck's followers realize it's a joke and are leaving him in droves....
Republicans Paul Ryan Plan they all voted to Kill Medicare, Steal Seniors Money after they have been paying into the Medicare System for years and then one day the Entire Republican Party decided to "Steal Senior Money" and cal lit "Empowering them"
Empowerment as a Senior?
Really Republicans, Seniors have earned the right and proudly not to be empowered upon retirement, especially pretaining to their Secure Medicare Benefits. Seniors don't want to be empowered, they simply want what they paid for their Medicare Plan in tact!
Republicans can keep their Empowerment Plan.
Hey June,
You forgot that the repubs will take away SS and school lunches too!!
Oh brother...
New York got a new Democrat, courtesy of the Ryan manifesto and hangers-on!