it seems as if the GOP isn't as big and bad as they pretended to be when they passed the Paul Ryan "DESTROY MEDICARE AND MEDICAID" 2012 Budget.
Now.....they're deserting him, leaving him on the branch alone.
I don’t give a shyt about how many Frank Luntz phrases that they use…
Seniors understand
End Medicare…Replace with Vouchercare
The GOP couldn’t get past that.
From TPM.com
Boehner: 'Political Realities' Make Medicare Privatization Difficult
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) is the latest GOP leader to acknowledge that his party's plan to privatize Medicare -- which passed the House as part of the Republican budget -- will hit a wall in the White House and Senate.
Responding Thursday to the news that one of his most powerful chairmen, Rep. Dave Camp (R-MI) of the House Ways and Means Committee, will not push ahead with the Medicare plan, Boehner told reporters, "My interpretation of what Mr. Camp [said] was a recognition of the political realities that we face. While Republicans control the House, the Democrats control the Senate and they control the White House."
Boehner insisted the GOP hasn't abandoned the plan, and isn't prepared to take anything other than tax increases off the table. But with multiple top Republicans now acknowledging that budget negotiations will focus on other areas of potential agreement, it seems understood that the plan is basically dead.
So, Orange Julius is saying that it might be needing, what, 'some retooling'?
Yeah, good luck with that.
But, TPM already points out the problems for ALLLLL the House Republicans, save 4:
There's just two problems with that, if you're a House Republican:
1.) The plan is still very unpopular, and 2.) There's over a 97 percent chance that you already voted for it.
Yes, the 2012 DNC Ads are being written as I type for those GOP House Members.
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