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The Washington Post reports
Senior Republicans said Friday that they are committed to a controversial overhaul of Medicare and will continue to support it as part of their deficit-reduction plan despite strong White House opposition.
The late-afternoon proclamation came at the end of a confusing week in which several GOP leaders publicly acknowledged that the most ambitious aspects of the plan would never be enacted, creating the impression they were distancing themselves from the politically unpopular proposal less than three weeks after pushing rank-and-file Republicans to vote for it.
House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) and four other leading Republicans said they remained committed to transforming Medicare into a program that would have seniors use federal funds to purchase insurance on the private market. And they said the proposal remains a part of the ongoing talks on raising the federal debt limit.
“This has been and remains the Republican position. We are committed to our budget and to making the reforms necessary to grow our economy and create jobs, preserve and strengthen Medicare, and put our nation on a path to pay down the debt,” Boehner, Cantor and the four other Republicans said in a joint statement.
If the House GOP remains committed to Ryan’s plan to end Medicare, the 2012 election will overwhelmingly go to the Dems. The GOP base will be lost, potentially forever.
Delighted to hear this clarification. We wouldn’t want voters to be confused about the Republican’s ultimate intentions would we?
We’re going to see this suicide through goddammit, you think we’re a bunch of quitters?
Great go for it, I have yet to meet anyone who supports this idea. When you are defending something, you have already lost.
Boehner, Cantor, Ryan et al. are setting-up their post-congressional careers as insurance execs and lobbyists. They can smell the money.
So its still their goal . . . they just aren’t going to actually try and do it? They are totally committed, just not in a “do it” sort of way?
That’s probably the stupidest thing I’ve hear in a long, long time.
I dunno people, vote for a black man or no more medicare…vote for a black man or no more medicare…for those not dumb enough to believe Republican lies that getting rid of Medicare will save it.
We are talking about a lot of really stupid white people.
I read ‘GOP committed’ and I thought: ‘well, it’s about time!’