AP Reports That GOP Inconsistent With Medicare. GOP Simply Standing With the Will of the People
The AP is reporting that the Democrats see hypocrisy in the GOP’s resistance to the Medicare changes in the current bill. Apparently they are miffed that the GOP will not support the changes to Medicare sought in the current health care reform bill snaking its way through Congress given that they added tens of billions to the national deficit with the prescription plan approved back in 2003.
Democrats are troubled by the inconsistency of Republican lawmakers who approved a major Medicare expansion six years ago that has added tens of billions of dollars to federal deficits, but oppose current health overhaul plans.
All current GOP senators, including the 24 who voted for the 2003 Medicare expansion, oppose the health care bill that’s backed by President Barack Obama and most congressional Democrats.
The Democrats claim that their plan moving through Congress now will pay for itself with higher taxes and spending cuts and they cite the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office for support.
By contrast, when Republicans controlled the House, Senate and White House in 2003, they overcame Democratic opposition to add a deficit-financed prescription drug benefit to Medicare. The program will cost a half-trillion dollars over 10 years, or more by some estimates.
With no new taxes or spending offsets accompanying the Medicare drug program, the cost has been added to the federal debt.
Some Republicans say they don’t believe the CBO’s projections that the health care overhaul will pay for itself. As for their new found worries about big government health expansions, they essentially say: That was then, this is now.
And that really is the crux of the matter. Millions of people across this country were asleep. They didn’t care how much was added to the debt and deficit. The Tea Party movement proves that has changed. On top of TARP, the Omnibus, clunker cash and all the other spending that the Democrats have rammed through, we’ve had enough.
People in this country know the Democrats aren’t going to slow/stop their spending so we have to hope we can return the GOP back to their principles of limited government and fiscal responsibility. The GOP went too far to the left. Democrat-lite. We’ve had enough of this spending and spoke out. Whatever happened in the past is simply that: in the past. What we want is responsibility today. In the future. The mainstream press can continue to drag up the past as a failure. Whatever. We are looking at making the future better and more financially sound. And it looks like the GOP is supporting the people’s will.
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