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Posted by Jonathan Bernstein on March 11, 2013 at 3:38 pm
Were still waiting for a full rollout of House Budget Chair Paul Ryans Republican budget, but theres confirmation now that it will once again rely heavily on retaining the Medicare cuts passed in the Affordable Care Act (even as Ryans budget repeals the rest of the law).
Others have noted the hypocrisy at work here. But everyone is under-appreciating just how outrageous this is. For the second time in a row, Paul Ryan and the Republicans have run a national election campaign (the 2012 presidential election) in which the main theme was bashing the Democrats
for a policy which Republicans support and indeed are making a key part of the most important policy blueprint that they will roll out this year.
This is no garden-variety flip-flop. Its a fundamental decision to govern one way and campaign the exact opposite way.
This is one of those cases where its so audacious that reporters just dont want to believe it. Sure, theyll note that Republicans hit Obamacare on death panels or government takeover because those were clearly lies, and because they were the kind of smears that are consistent with conservative ideological rhetoric. But they didnt advertise in 2010 on death panels, at least not all that much; they ran ads, again and again, attacking Democratic candidates for supporting those Medicare cuts.
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kickysnana
(3,908 posts)corkhead
(6,119 posts)both parties are 50% right and 50% wrong. The truth is always somewhere right smack in the middle. To say otherwise is not being objective.
spanone
(135,858 posts)Whisp
(24,096 posts)they shouldn't be treating these wackos as if they were serious people with serious opinions.
but they do.
TheKentuckian
(25,029 posts), and offer a consistent opposing (not an alternative) message.