McConnell Doesn't Like Any Medicare Proposals
Senate Min. Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) apparently doesn't like anything he's heard on Medicare lately. The GOP leader has some mixed messages coming from his recent press releases, as one Friend of OnCall pointed out.
"Cutting Medicare is not what Americans want," trumpets a press release from 12/6 that rails against cuts GOPers have been pointing to in health care legislation being debated on the Senate floor.
But, the very next day, McConnell didn't like reports that Dems were planning to expand Medicare to those younger than 65:
"Expanding Medicare 'a plan for financial ruin,'" reads a press release from 12/7.
The releases themselves are not contradictory. McConnell keeps hammering Dems for voting down an amendment offered by Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH) that would have restored funding to Medicare.
"If your goal was to come up with a plan for financial ruin, you couldn't come up with a better idea than cutting a program by $500 billion and simultaneously expanding the number of people it is required to cover," McConnell said in the 12/7 statement.
But maybe the headline writers need to come up with a better way to put that, as it sure makes McConnell's website look funny.
A screen shot of McConnell's website, with the two press releases in the lower right corner:
Update: We're told our friends over at Huffington Post already caught the dueling headlines.
I'm a registered Democrat. That admission out of the way, I want to comment on Mitch McConnell as the Senate's minority leader. The longer Mitch stays in his position, the better. He's now presiding over a political party that is slowly becoming a 'southern' party. He sat on his hands during the health care debate, and said "we don't wanna play" to the Democrats. Now, when they have played, he's reaction is that "they aren't including the Republicans in anything". Thanks Mitch. Keep up the good work......the Democrats appreciate your hard work.