Ah, what a life being a Democratic member of Congress these days. Forget about that thing called, er, governing as the country is aboard a bullet train racing toward financial ruin. Nope. That would take what is often referred to as "leadership." Instead Democrats in the Nation's Capital have chosen the path of embracing the lowest common denominator with perversely crafted scare tactics: lying incessantly to voters that Republicans conspire to^destroy Medicare and wheelbarrow seniors into a lake (literally), as one TV ad argued.
Heck, even Bill Clinton agrees that something needs to be done about Medicare, going as far as to call out the Democrats for their demagoguery."I think the Democrats are going to have to be willing to give up, maybe, some short-term political gain by whipping up fears on some of these things, if it's a reasonable Social Security proposal, a reasonable Medicare proposal," he said in an interview. "We've got to deal with these things. You cannot have healthcare devour the economy."The nonsense about the House bills aside, the Times' editorial board is spoton: Democrats have glided through Congress bereft of ideas, yet they are heavy on attacks. And in large part, so far, the Democrats are getting away with this strategy.The long and short of it is that if you are awarded a free hit you can pass the ball to yourself. You must first make sure you stop the ball completely and then with a separate movement make a passing motion, were you can collect the ball and move on with it.It is never easy to introduce a new rule to such an old sport, nor is it easy to coach it when so many people aren�t aware of the change or what it means.The ball must move 7 yards before you play it off to another player, and there is more to it than just this. The free hit rules change depending on where you are on the field, so I have added a link to a video that I think explains it very well.For Obama's part, he's happy to just give speeches and try to scare the life out of seniors. His budget, the one that was unanimously rejected by the Senate, didn't deal with entitlement spending. So he gave a speech, redoubling his efforts to tackle backbreaking entitlement costs. From that speech, the White House offered up a press release, devoid of any specific numbers or policy proposals.At best, the Democratic Party has "No" plan for dealing with Medicare and skyrocketing deficits. At worst, the default plan of ObamaCare is to raid the already-insolvent Medicare "trust fund" to pay for an entirely new entitlement program.The self-pass rule was designed to make to game of field hockey more fluid and much faster paced. As many people that have not watched or played much field hockey will tell you, the two things they notice the most are there are a lot or rules and there are even more whistles stopping in the game.And what makes these rote talking points even sicker is that the liberals in Congress have failed to produce a plan of their own.And then there's President Obama's budget, which was defeated 97 to 0 in the Senate. Not one single senator voted for the President's budget ? not even avowed Socialist Bernie Sanders, because the proposal was considered "stale."The reason for so many rules is for safety and this new rule is being interdicted to help lower the stops in the game.Nothing since.
As one House Republican official told FIuman Events, "It's not a matter of him agreeing with Rep. Ryan, but the President is a leader and leaders need to act, not simply talk, and he has not done that yet."
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