Republicans need to ‘man up’ on Medicare reform

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By Jennifer Rubin
Bill Kristol, appearing on Bill Bennett’s radio show, put it best: Those Republicans running from Rep. Paul Ryan’s Medicare reform plan are “pathetic.” A loss of a single House seat in a special election in New York has some of the mice on Capitol Hill and the hysterics in the right blogosphere predicting disaster in 2012 and/or the end of Ryan’s political career. One is tempted to tell them to “man up.”

Timidity is not a rare commodity among political insiders. It’s the mentality that says Charlie Crist is a safer candidate than Marco Rubio. It’s the hand-wringing that caused some Republicans to urge we forgo the surge in Iraq, lest the Republicans lose the House.

So should Republicans cower under the bed — forfeiting any claim to responsible leadership — or make the case for real reform. As an infuriated Republican activist, Michael Goldfarb, put it, that there is an easy response to all the Mediscaring: “Ryan is trying to save Medicare and the country, while Obama pretends everything’s okay and destroys both.”

Mainstream media headlines blast that yesterday the Ryan budget was defeated 57-40 in the Senate.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/republicans-need-to-man-up-on-medicare-reform/2011/03/29/AGJ7AzBH_blog.html?hpid=z9

:rofl: I totally agree! Republicans need to make dismantling medicare the single most important aspect of their platform! :evilgrin:

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1. Kristol crystallized: Go murdering vandal horde or go home

You think Smilin' Billy would run for office himself and show us all how it's done. I wonder why he doesn't?

[david_vincent]

2. Off topic, but...

I hate the term "man up" or "manning up". It's sexist and meaningless. It's intended to challenge a man's self-image in order to browbeat him into doing something. Women are never told to "woman up".

[rurallib]

3. 'put your man pants on' - hate that one lots.

[Aerows]

4. Please let RyanDon'tCare become a party platform for Republicans

PLEASE have the courage to tell people who have paid into a program all of their lives that they are suddenly not due coverage, and that their money they put in is suddenly an "entitlement".

Stroll into my home, and take it out from under me after I paid all of my life for having it, tell me to live in a tent and smile about it, while you bask in an air conditioned home I pay for. Go for it.

[rurallib]

5. Was Krystol the one who once told Newtie that if Dems passed

universal health care republicans couldn't elect a dog catcher?
Seems like medicare is a corollary to that advice.
Once they have and you try to take it away, they will be pissed.