(TPM)
For decades, the Republican party has been the scourge of Medicare, hostile to it as a wasteful government program, and happy to see it, in the words of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, "wither and die on the vine." Over the past several months, as Democrats propose paying for health care reform with savings wrung from waste in Medicare, Republicans have tried to position themselves as Medicare saviors. Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) took to the Senate floor recently to warn that health care reform will make seniors "die sooner."
Today, Democrats will unveil the above poster board--taken from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's comm shop--on the Senate floor. That the two press releases were issued on consecutive days seems to heighten the contradiction.
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