Here are some excerpts from a Politico.com article today called: Paul Ryan’s proposal poses a predicament for GOP by Burns and Isenstadt. Read the entire article here.
“They’re hanging the 20 vulnerable members out to dry for the sake of placating the 220 safe members who want to save the world and don’t have any other concerns beyond that,” said an adviser to one first-term House member. “You have a couple dozen members who are going to pay a pretty serious price for this vote if they end up in a tough race.”
Envisioning Democratic ads savaging the GOP over Ryan’s plan, the Republican said: “It’s not just cuts to Medicare. It’s ‘Republicans are ending Medicare as we know it.’ That’s not demagoguery. That is the case. This budget ends Medicare as we know it.” …
In the aftermath of a 2010 campaign fought on economic and fiscal issues, Republican officials say anything that keeps the national debate focused on limiting spending will be good for their party. …
The DCCC put out a list Tuesday of several dozen attack ads the GOP and outside conservative groups ran last year, accusing Democrats of cutting half a trillion dollars out of the program through the Affordable Care Act.
In a memo, the House Democrats’ campaign arm recalled that “Republican candidates, the NRCC and their allies ran millions of dollars in campaign ads arguing that ‘massive cuts to Medicare’ were unacceptable.”
Now, the memo continued: “Republicans actually want to end Medicare as we know it.”
Again, you can read the entire article here.
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