Hard-Hitting White House Talking Points Blast GOP For Lying About Medicare

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Hard-Hitting White House Talking Points Blast GOP For Lying About Medicare

In a sign that the White House is taking the gloves off for a newly aggressive phase in the health care wars, a hard-hitting new set of White House talking points urges Congressional Dems and outside allies to blast the GOP for lying about Medicare with “outright falsehoods” and “disingenuous scare tactics.”

The talking points — which were sent over by a source and are being privately distributed on the Hill and among liberal groups — contain what some of the toughest and most partisan language yet used by an administration that had long held out hope of winning over Republican support. A sample:

Talking Points: Republicans’ Disingenuous Scare Tactics on Medicare

• Recently, as part of an ongoing effort to revive their political fortunes by killing health insurance reform, many Republicans have been attempting to scare America’s seniors with false myths about what reform would mean for Medicare.

• These distortions and outright falsehoods would be offensive under any circumstances, but they’re especially disingenuous coming from a group who has a long history of opposing Medicare and who very recently tried to kill the program as we know it.

• Just this past April, nearly four-fifths of Republican House members voted to end Medicare as we know it by turning it into a voucher program that provides a fixed sum of money to buy private insurance.

• And this most recent assault on Medicare is just the latest in a war Republicans have been waging on the program for decades.

The talking points suggest the White House is concerned that Republican claims about Medicare are gaining traction, and that the administration recognizes that a tougher response — complete with a history lesson about GOP intentions towards the program — may be necessary to reverse that tide. Read the full talking points right here.

http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/health-care/hard-hitting-white-house-talking-points-blast-gop-for-lying-about-medicare/

[BOSSHOG]

1. Sadly

The gop knows it has an easy job. They don't have to tell the truth to their base, just what they know they want to hear. "Socialist," "communist," "liberal." The gop base does not care about the truth or right and wrong or our country. And by gawd keep YOUR government out of MY Medicare.

[quiet.american]

2. It's a relief that the WH has stopped praising Grassley et al. nt

[Wilms]

3. .