Rich relatives, good social skills, and either a sharp intellect or a moral capacity for personal sabotage?
that's some serious booing <iframe title="YouTube video player" width="640" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/h5kgnE1Xvec" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
First you piss off unions and teachers and now you've pissed off old people. It's gonna be a long summer for the house majority. More Republican Congressmen Face Town Hall Backlash Over Tax Breaks For Wealthy And Medicare Privatization
How is cutting revenue $1 trillion by giving tax breaks to (mostly) wealthy people taking care of the $14 trillion debt?
Time to move on... Poll: Six In Ten Oppose GOP's Medicare Privatization Plan oh yeah. this too! No Clear Leader In GOP Presidential Pack
I don't have a link for that. I saw a comparison between the GOP plan, the Obama plan, and the deficit reduction committee proposals on the news (maybe local?), and it indicated that the Ryan plan cut taxes by about $1 trillion over the next decade.
Paul Ryan's proposal is ridiculous. If he was serious about reducing the deficit, he would propose cuts to military spending. The budget he's proposed proves that he's just a party-line politician. I agree with Ron Paul on the matter. Military spending should be cut before we ever consider cuts to welfare spending. It wouldn't be right to cut welfare spending when so many people are dependent on it. Let young people opt out of Social Security and appropriate funds currently going to military spending to pay for Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid outlays. It's the only realistic option.
The major plank of the Ryan plan dies (well besides that whole kill medicare bit) Health Care Repeal Is 'Dead,' Says Top Republican Rep. Dave Camp (R-Mich.), chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, acknowledged Thursday that Republican plans to repeal President Barack Obama’s signature health care law were “dead.” Instead, Camp predicted, the GOP would turn its focus to overturning the most controversial portion of that legislation: the mandate requiring individuals to buy insurance.
Sen. Chuck Schumer today on republican house members effort to run away from their vote on the Ryan bill "The Republicans are slowly realizing their plan to privatize Medicare is a political disaster, but until they renounce their vote for it, they are still going to own it,"
If you get rid of the mandate but still require insurers to insure those with pre-existing conditions, then any healthy person who pays for health insurance is a fool.
Strangely, the Path to Prosperity does not include eliminating taxpayer subsidies to oil companies: http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/67...to-vote-on-repealing-oil-inudstry-tax-subsidy I wish a serious, bold legislator like Paul Ryan would explain how this leads to more prosperity. Other than for oil companies.
too much! :grin: Sen Democrats Offer Cantor Resounding Pat on Head 48 Senate Democrats have sent a letter to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) applauding his decision to drop Paul Ryan's Medicare Phase Out Plan.
Democrat Kathy Hochul Wins Upset In NY-26, Medicare Vote Key To Victory Republicans are going to have plenty of questions about their plan to turn Medicare into a voucher program tomorrow morning after Democrats romped to an improbable victory in a special election focused almost entirely on the issue. Democrat Kathy Hochul lead 48-43 with over 83% of the votes counted and her victory looks to be a strong one -- the Associated Press called the race within an hour of the polls closing. Corwin underperformed in key GOP counties while Hochul's margins in Democratic areas were in line with the party's high water mark in the district from 2006, a wave year that swept the Republicans out of the majority in the House and Senate. The district is normally a safe seat for Republicans and has never elected a Democrat.
Despite the fact that the GOP has a 26,000+ voter enrollment edge in NY-26 and has held the seat with only one interruption (redistricting makes this somewhat hard to explain) since 1953 http://www.capitaltonight.com/2011/02/dems-not-writing-off-ny-26/
Yes, this was a huge blow the GOP, and Ryan's "budget bill". Talk about telling. Not even basso is here to try and post crap about a fraudulent election, or to try and derail this by talking made up stuff about Obama.
it will be a sad statement of the electorate if Obama's demaguery wins the day over this man, who is trying to do the right thing <iframe width="640" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/DJIC7kEq6kw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
