GOP campaign chairman calls chained CPI 'trying to balance the budget on the backs of seniors'

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GOP campaign chairman calls chained CPI 'trying to balance the budget on the backs of seniors'

by Joan McCarter

Ladies and gentlemen, here's your preview of the 2014 Republican campaign commercials, from Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), who is chairman of the NRCC, the GOP's House re-election committee.

BLITZER: Well, let's talk about these proposed changes that the president is putting forward when it comes to Social Security and Medicare, the shocking proposals that you say the president's putting forward that could affect seniors. What's so shocking about changing that CPI, that consumer price index the way that you would determine how much inflation would go ahead with increases for Social Security recipients, for example?

WALDEN: Well, once again, you're trying to balance this budget on the backs of seniors and I just think it's not the right way to go.

And here he is on the Medicare cuts:

Well, I thought it very intriguing in that the budget really lays out kind of a shocking attack on seniors, if you will. And we haven't seen all the detail yet, and we'll look at it, but I'll tell you, when you're going after seniors the way he's already done on Obamacare, taking $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. I think he's going to have a lot of pushback from some of the major senior organizations on this and Republicans, as well.

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1. Who could have ever seen THAT coming?

[BeyondGeography]

2. I salute the new pro-entitlements for seniors GOP

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3. Even though it was a Republican idea from the start

but what does it say when a Democratic President says "We have to do SOMETHING, so let's do the Republican idea."

[Life Long Dem]

4. Yeah it's not going well

Even if chained CPI lifts the poorest seniors above the poverty line with protections in place.

Fight the greedy, feed the needy.