Flashback to 2005: Where’s the Medicare reform? asks Senate backbencher Obama (Harry Reid, vote)

[jt800]

As Barack Obama and his allies unleash their full Mediscaring fury, perhaps it’s helpful to recall this moment in 2005.

George W. Bush proclaimed a mandate to fix Social Security after the 2004 election, which had Democrats insisting even then that Social Security didn’t need reform, and that it was safe for another 20 years.

One Democrat in particular questioned the reform priorities of Bush. Why not tackle Medicare reform instead, as it was by far the largest driver of unfunded and irrational future liabilities?



Democrats, let by Harry Reid, successfully demagogued Bush on Social Security reform — and seven years later, the SSA funds are running in the red.



Meanwhile, that backbencher won the next presidential election. Did he offer Medicare reform to deal with the massive liabilities building up in the system? Why, no — and now he’s demonizing Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan for daring to propose specific plans for reform.

The positions change, but the demagoguery remains the same.

[AeroGuyDC]

He's a liar and a hypocrite. I personally don't believe polls are accurately capturing the true public sentiment. Barack Obama is out in November. Not a single doubt in my mind.

[jt800]

Don't you also love how Obama and Biden both were telling their supporters the other day what nice people Romney and Ryan are?

This comes less than a week after Obama's people wouldn't condemn an ad that basically said Romney was a murderer and a Month after they tried to say Romney was a FELON.

[wxjay]

This was before he repudiated Wright, before he 'evolved' on gay marriage, before he voted against raising the debt ceiling, and before he cut $700 billion from Medicare.

He's a changed man now.

[LexusNexus]

Your loose use of the term "reform" renders your nonsense rant meaningless. Anytime a bigoted Conservtive talks "reform", it always means BREAKING something to favor the rich while everyone else goes to hell. Anytime a Democrat talk "reform", it means FIXING the problem created by Republicans so that it's fair to everyone, not just the most privileged.

Thanks for playing.

[jt800]

Originally Posted by A_Lexus

Your loose use of the term "reform" renders your nonsense rant meaningless. Anytime a bigoted Conservtive talks "reform", it always means BREAKING something to favor the rich while everyone else goes to hell. Anytime a Democrat talk "reform", it means FIXING the problem created by Republicans so that it's fair to everyone, not just the most privileged.

Thanks for playing.

If anyone wants to see COMPLETE RUBBISH, read the above!

Bill Clinton is a Democrat isn't he?

Clinton passed Welfare Reform.

Obama recently BROKE that by gutting the provisions in it that the writers SPECIFICALLY said couldn't be waived.