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Jewish World Review Aug 17, 2012 / 29 Menachem-Av, 5772 Dems ignore own issues with Medicare By Deroy Murdock
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Presumptive GOP vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan should begin his campaign rallies by blasting Eric Clapton's recording of "Before You Accuse Me (Take a Look at Yourself)." This blues tune perfectly reflects the neurosis of President Obama and his troops. They constantly bellow that Mitt Romney and Ryan lust to cut Medicare. Yet, in fact, it is Team Obama that already has chopped deeply into it.
Obama and his comrades echo each other on this point. Republicans are "weakening the safety net," Obama said Monday. "Romney and Paul Ryan are dead set on slashing seniors' Medicare benefits to pay for more millionaire tax breaks," Democratic strategist Kelly Ward wrote donors on Tuesday. "It's a rigged deal," Obama political guru David Axelrod told MSNBC on Thursday. "The Ryan budget, endorsed by Mitt Romney, would end Medicare," screamed MoveOn.org.
Unfortunately for Democrats, who have sung this song since last year, the truth refuses to harmonize with their vocals. Indeed, PolitiFact.com crowned the Left's "Republicans voted to end Medicare" mendacity as "the 2011 Lie of the Year."
The Washington Post caught Democrats with their hands, arms, and shoulders in the Medicare cookie jar.
"Romney is right," read last Tuesday's WashingtonPost.com headline. "Obamacare cuts Medicare by $716 billion." Post reporter Sarah Kliff's extensive evidence explains "all the various Medicare cuts Democrats made to pay for the Affordable Care Act" — also known as Obamacare.
For starters, Congressional Budget Office director Douglas W. Elmendorf wrote House Speaker John Boehner on July 24. Elmendorf determined that if Congress repealed Obamacare, "spending for Medicare would increase by an estimated $716 billion over that 2013-2022 period." Conversely, if Obamacare remains law, so will Obama's $716 billion in Medicare cuts.
The Washington Post conveniently itemizes Obama's ten-year decreases in Medicare:
Even worse, in what would constitute criminal fraud in the private sector, Obama simultaneously applies the same funds to Medicare and to Obamacare.
"So," Congressman John Shimkus (R., Ill.) asked Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius at a House hearing on March 3, 2011, "are you using it [this money] to save Medicare, or are you using it to fund health-care reform? Which one?"
Secretary Sebelius confessed: "Both."
"So," Shimkus replied, "you're double-counting."
Liberals are hammering Romney, Ryan, and Republicans for something that they themselves already have done. This mental condition is known among psychologists as "projection." When it comes to gutting Medicare, Obama and the Left are projecting enough to fill an IMAX screen.
Every weekday JewishWorldReview.com publishes what many in in the media and Washington consider "must-reading". Sign up for the daily JWR update. It's free. Just click here. Comment by clicking here. Deroy Murdock is a columnist with Scripps Howard News Service and a media fellow with the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University.
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