May 25: Add Marco Rubio (R-FL) to the list of those who voted to end Medicare as we know it.

[seafan]

Senate rejects budget measure containing Medicare overhaul, May 25, 2011


Description of HR 34, sponsored by Paul Ryan

Here is the vote tally in the Senate this afternoon on Paul Ryan's Medicare poison pill, forced to a vote by the Democratic leadership. Now we're talking.


Five Senate Republicans defected from Ryan's plan. They are Scott Brown of Massachusetts, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Rand Paul of Kentucky, and Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine.


But 40 regressive Republicans in the Senate are now on the record as in favor of ending Medicare as we know it. Add 40 more names to the list to be retired in their next campaign.



Paul Ryan


Marco Rubio


Two losers.



UPDATE: Rubio just high-tailed it over to the Miami Herald to pen a combative screed after his vote in the Senate 4 hours ago to end Medicare as it exists now.

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Rep. Paul Ryan has offered a plan that would make no changes whatsoever for anyone age 55 and older. I support it because, right now, it is the only plan out there that helps save Medicare. Democrats oppose it. Fine. But, if they have a better way to save Medicare, what are they waiting for to show us? What is their plan to save Medicare?

Either show us how Medicare survives without any changes or show us what changes you propose we make. Anyone who supports doing nothing is a supporter of bankrupting Medicare.

Where is the House Democrat plan to save Medicare?

Where is the Senate Democrat plan to save Medicare?

Where is President Obama’s plan to save Medicare?

They have no plan to save it, and they do not plan to offer one. They have decided that winning their next election is more important than saving Medicare for my mother and retirees like her.

I have been in the Senate just long enough to be disgusted by the reality that Washington has too many people who think their personal political careers are more important than our country’s future.

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Here is an everyday "*democrat* plan" to save Medicare, Mr. Rubio.


Expand Medicare to everyone. Everyone in and no one out. And instead of only taxing working people to pay for it, tax the rich who live off their investments. THEN, we would have some shared sacrifice.




Sorry, Rubio. You aren't Speaker of the Florida House any more. There will be consequences for this vote.

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[onethatcares]

2. he's been in politics just long enough to know that the RPOF has

a great credit card that he can use.

Odd that he won't even bridge the subject of raising taxes on the wealthiest of Americans.

[Harmony Blue]

3. What a terrible article

And what is even worse, is that there are responses to this article that it was actually good. How can people be so dense?