The reductions in Medicare Republicans are now decrying are more equitable, better targeted, and not even half as large as the ones many of those same Republicans endorsed in the ‘90s.
Jonathan Cohn,
writing for The New Republic, and creating a little koan for us all to recite. Also, keep in mind that John McCain himself pushed cuts in the neighborhood of $1.3 trillion just ~8 months ago during the campaign. And is now all worked up over revisions that total $487 billion (mostly from dumping the idiotic and wasteful Medicare Advantage program by which the government pays insurance companies to provide Medicare benefits…at higher cost than, uh, Medicare). Unconscionable. And they will be allowed to do it. And then go back on it. Again and again.
Lemkin 