Half-man, half-squirrel Jeff Sessions (R-AL) hails fabulous plan to slash Social Security, Medicare

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Key Republican hails ‘fabulous’ plan to slash Social Security, Medicare

By Sahil Kapur
Monday, January 24th, 2011 -- 4:26 pm



WASHINGTON – The top Republican on the Senate budget committee championed a plan to drastically cut Social Security and Medicare, another in a series of signs that the GOP is gearing up to try and slash the cherished programs.

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) on Monday praised the "roadmap" put forth by his Republican House counterpart, budget committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), which would largely privatize Social Security and voucherize Medicare.

"Ryan has done a fabulous thing," Sessions said on ABC's Top Line. "He's developed a plan that goes 60 years, and he deals with Social Security and Medicare. A lot of those changes don't take place until the distant years of the future, but his whole plan and approach is fabulous -- we need to be listening to it, the president needs to be engaging it."

Sessions joins House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA), who on Sunday said Congress ought to "embrace" the direction of the plan in order to cut spending and reduce the national debt.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/key-senate-republican-plan-slash-social-security-medicare-fabulous/

[MinneapolisMatt]

1. You get a kick & rec

for "Half-man, half-squirrel" all by itself. :rofl:

[madokie]

2. Mostly ass, part squirrel

would be a more apt description

[warrior1]

3. so tell me

why to older folks on these plans continuously vote for the morons? Don't they know they'll be eating eye sockets and ass holes if the repukes get their way?

[Vinnie From Indy]

4. They sell it to the existing old folks by

making the draconian cuts come into effect after they are long dead. BAsically, they tell them that this will only effect the next generation and hope they buy it. Run this through the gargantuan right-wing 24/7 hate machine and, sadly, many seniors will buy it.

[LuvNewcastle]

5. The Democrats need to introduce

legislation that would slash the pensions of members of Congress and force them to depend on Social Security, just like most Americans. It would be wonderful to see those Republicans try to wiggle their way out of that.

[EC]

11. You got that right

here in WI our new governor was saying that the public employees should catch up with the rest of the employers...that pensions haven't been offered in private business for over 10 years...yet he doesn't mention their pensions, just the teachers, cops, firemen, road workers and garbage collectors.

[DirkGently]

6. I think there's some Evil Keebler Elf in there somewhere too.

[hlthe2b]

7. he is a caricature of the most negative stereotype...

that remains for some, still defending racism and ignorance.

[misanthrope]

16. Yet he's continually re-elected by wide margins...

...which would make him an apt representation of his constituents.

[Major Hogwash]

8. He looks like my daughter's cabbage patch doll after she played with it in the sandbox.

He saw some numbers he liked in the year 2040, but he will be long gone from the Senate by then.
The major cuts in their plan don't go into effect for years.

And it requires the use of the blood of humans.

[sinkingfeeling]

9. Hope all those who voted for these men are happy to learn they will have no SS nor Medicare.

[WinkyDink]

14. Not to worry! They and their children will live in a green world of full employment and life-long

money just a-rollin' along like Old Man River!

[EC]

10. I just cannot understand how this little cartoon character

got elected...he doesn't look at all serious, he looks like an old fool.

[sarcasmo]

12. Those of us in our 40's and younger need to make alternate plans.

These thieves are going to destroy Social Security.

[WinkyDink]

15. Yes, like emigrating.

[WinkyDink]

13. Didn't Jeff learn from Dubya's handlers to avoid saying "fabulous"? ;-)