Thursday, May 26, 2011

Once Medicare's defender, Roy Blunt votes to cut benefits

Posted by David Martin on Thu, May 26, 2011 at 1:00 PM

click to enlarge Roy Blunt: Save Medicare! End Medicare!
  • Roy Blunt: Save Medicare! End Medicare!

Politicians are inordinately awful people. Not all are broken, adulation-starved and capable of acts of hypocrisy that would give normal people diarrhea for a week, of course -- just an unusually high number of them.

Yesterday, U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri voted for the House Republican budget that puts Medicare on a voucher system, a scheme that shifts costs to seniors in a pretty substantial way. Yet during the campaign, Blunt tried to brand his opponent as a Medicare-benefit cutter and said he'd fight to protect seniors.



Here's an ad that Blunt ran during the 2010 race, in which he stated that Democrat Robin Carnahan wanted to cut Medicare to pay for "government-run health care," neglecting that Medicare is kind of the essence of government-run health care.



But what gets said on the campaign trail stays on the campaign trail, right? Once the new Congress was sworn in, Blunt aligned himself with Paul Ryan, the House Budget leader who made the privatization of Medicare the centerpiece of his budget plan.

Sensing the unpopularity of Ryan plan, Democrats forced a vote on Wednesday. Blunt and 39 other Senate Republicans voted for the controversial plan. Blunt says he merely wanted to "continue the debate."

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Is that seriously his face, or did the Joker vomit?

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Posted by kcsoviet on 05/29/2011 at 11:09 PM

You know what?  You're going to be a Senior, if you're lucky, and I hope you get treated as shabbily as you wish on current Seniors - Karma, baby, Karma!

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Posted by lvleighlife on 05/27/2011 at 12:16 PM

The voters in Missouri were scammed by the hypocracy that is now the Republican/Tea Party
idealogy. How many Senior Missourians voted for the infamous Blunt and other Tea Party candidates? Know what?  you seniors get and deserve what you voted for.

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Posted by lou rawls on 05/27/2011 at 7:19 AM
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