Unsurprisingly, Chairman of House GOP re-election cmte blasts Obama's ‘Shocking Attack On Seniors’
In a development nobody could have anticipated, the guy in the House in charge of nationalizing the 2014 congressional races for the Republicans SHOCKED (tm) everyone today by denouncing Obama's ‘Shocking Attack On Seniors’ while tying the current proposed budget to that $700 billion Obama medicare cut... blah, blah, blah.
And you know why this sort of utter nonsense is not entirely without effect? Because seniors, as a demographic, already do not like Obama. A disproportionate number of seniors are white. Seniors voted more for Romney and are prepared (on average) to think that Obama has it in for them. (Even while thinking that Dems in general are more protective of senior programs.)
Remember those warnings about how instead of welcoming President Obama’s adoption of Chained CPI, Republicans would continue to deny him a budget deal and attack him for proposing to cut Social Security?
Well Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR) — who also happens to be chairman of the House GOP’s re-election committee — just showed how it’s done, saying Obama’s budget “lays out a shocking attack on seniors.”
“I’ll tell you when you’re going after seniors the way he’s already done on Obamacare, taken $700 billion out of Medicare to put into Obamacare and now coming back at seniors again, I think you’re crossing that line very quickly here in terms of denying access to seniors for health care in districts like mine certainly and around the country,” he said on CNN Wednesday afternoon.
Needless to say, if the NRCC chairman is fronting this line of attack, we’ll probably see it pop up contested districts around the country next year.
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Chained CPI? No big deal! Obama's got this!
The excuses are that it's either some sort of 32 dimensional chess move, (and everyone knows how the American public loves convoluted political narratives), but if it's not, it's pragmatic and will strengthen SS anyway - somehow. 
Baffling. Also, associating the President with cuts to SSN and Medicare will somehow make people vote Democratic in 2014. Again, baffling.
