Anxiety is rising among some Republicans over the party's embrace of a plan to overhaul Medicare, with GOP lawmakers already starting to face tough questions on the issue at town hall meetings back in their districts.[...]
Democrats, eager to win back the seniors and independents who abandoned the party in last year's midterm elections, have declared the vote a "moment of truth" and this week launched a media campaign accusing GOP House members of dismantling Medicare and endangering retirees.
The assault has taken some Republicans by surprise, prompting concerns that the party is ceding ground in a policy debate that GOP strategists already viewed as perilous. [ Washington Post Front Page, 4/23/11 ]
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What did they think would happen?
Check out these videos of voters letting Republicans have it for slashing seniors' health care benefits so millionaires and billionaires can get another tax cut >>
We can't let up. The same right-wing special interests that attacked House Democrats for supporting Health Care Reform are back in full force thanking House Republicans for their vote to end Medicare. And get this, their misleading ads claim that by voting to end Medicare, Republicans were actually trying to protect it. Huh?
We have to stop this outrageous lie in its tracks. Here are the facts: if Speaker Boehner and House Republicans simply chose to get rid of the huge tax breaks for the wealthy, Big Oil, and companies that offshore to avoid paying their fair share, they wouldn't have to slash health care benefits for seniors at all.
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Last election cycle, Republicans and their special interest backers lied about us. Now all we have to do is tell the truth about them. When we win back the majority, people will look back at this vote and our rapid response campaign as a defining moment that secured the majority for Democrats.
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Rep. Steve Israel
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