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Who said that? Dems and GOP display dizzying shift on Medicare rhetoric
Asking for civility
THEN
"The whole 'ObamaCare' debacle has shaken Americans' respect for Congress. The cynical back room deals to gain support from wavering legislators are appalling. The procedural trickery now being considered to move this bill forward is dishonorable and a disgrace to the principles upon which our government was founded."
Then-candidate Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), March 24, 2010
"More and more debt piled on our children and grandchildren. Also, the feds dumped more people onto [state] Medicaid. Still, there will be 23 million people without health care insurance when this is over. … Signing this big, fat bill and putting it on the backs of our children is wrong."
Obama, Jan. 28, 2010
"But we shouldn't sort of assume that the other side is either heartless or doesn't care about sick people or is some socialist/communist who's trying to take over the health care system. ... We start getting into these caricatures. They're so damaging."
NOW
DCCC "Republican Plan to End Medicare" talking points, March 2011
"House Republicans voted to end Medicare but protect tax breaks for millionaires, billionaires, and Big Oil. This reckless privatization scheme is an insult to every hardworking American who has paid into Medicare."
Letter from Reps. Kinzinger and Farenthold, May 10, 2011
"It is high time both parties come together to have a commonsense conversation to prevent the collapse of institutions on which millions of seniors rely on and save Medicare for our children and grandchildren."
THEN & NOW:
The effects of reform | On rationing | Electoral consequences
Life or death (part 1) | Life or death (part 2) | "Granny"
Scare tactics | Asking for civility | "Grown up" solutions
