Just months after losing big in the House during the midterm elections, the Democrats have come up with a few key victories that will seemingly take the wind out of the sails of power hungry sleaze balls like John Boehner and Tea Party buffoons like Michele Bachmann. New York Democrat Kathy Hochul won a surprising special election victory for a vacant seat in the House. Hochul won 48% of the vote, while her Republican opposition won 42% and the Tea Party candidate winning 9% and a Green party candidate rounding out the results with the last 1%. The district where she won has consistently been a conservative district in the past.
But this victory is only a minor won; the real victory for the Democrats came a day later, when the standoff for Medicare was forced. This put Republicans in a predicament over the bill, authored by Paul Ryan of Wisconsin. In the end, five of the 47 Republicans in the Senate voted against Ryan’s bill that would have killed Medicare by subsidizing it for the private insurance market. This may be a sign that the cut and slash at all cost tactics taken up by the Republicans and Tea Partiers has not gone over well with the public, and that they have most certainly overstepped their boundaries.
The budget is still high and there is not quality plan in place to fix that. But it looks like the message is finally getting through to our elected officials, especially after the surprising victory of Hochul: if you keep pissing us (the voters) off, you’ll be out of a job come next election. Or maybe even more importantly, a step towards bipartisanship has been taken. But I wouldn’t bet the farm on that one yet.
How do you propose we fix medicare? It is going to go bankrupt thanks to the reckless spending of the democratic party. You cannot spend your way to prosperity. The DNC's fearmongering is truly sickening.
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The problem isn't Medicare itself. It also isn't the "reckless spending" and "fearmongering" of the Democrats. The problem lies in the way our elected officials legislate. Earmarks and pork legislation are the problem, throwing millions and billions of dollars into various programs just to get votes for legislation; essentially, it's bloodmoney. And when the deficit climbs, the first things to get sacrificed are always social services. So to blame to Medicare and the Democrats specifically for the debt is irresponsible. You're right in that we can't spend our way out of every problem, but at the same time we can't just cut off funds to the necessary programs.
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