Because the good lord knows Democrats don't want a winning campaign issue, the party is desperately trying to hand back its Medicare advantage to Republicans. Joe Lieberman today teamed with Tom Coburn to push legislation that would cut Medicare by $640 billion over the next ten years by reducing benefits and making old people pay more for their care. That's called courage in Washington. President Obama, meanwhile, is floating heavy Medicare cuts in his talks with Mitch McConnell and John Boehner, meaning that Lieberman and Coburn's proposal could become the basis for some type of bipartisan knifing of grandma any day now.That would be the Joe Lieberman who helped kill the public option, thus ensuring that when seniors get their Medicare benefits cut they won't be able to afford this country's exorbitantly expensive, and ever-growing, medical costs.
But hey, I was getting tired of Democratic control of the congress and the White House anyway. [/snark]
