Making Them Pay For Medicare

Democrats are hitting back hard this week on Republicans who voted for the Ryan Unicorn Plan to privatize Medicare and remove the social safety net guarantee of care with new ads targeting the House GOP:

In a significant escalation of the progressive campaign to make Republicans pay a political price for voting to end Medicare, the progressive advocacy group Americans United for Change will run broadcast TV ads in the districts of Reps. Steve King (R-IA), Sean Duffy (R-WI), Chip Cravaack (R-MN), and Paul Ryan (R-WI).

"What are House Republicans thinking asking millions of seniors, the less fortunate and the disabled to make more sacrifices and the richest among us to make less," says AUC executive Tom McMahon in a statement.

If Republicans have their way, there would be no more guaranteed Medicare benefits for America's seniors, only a guarantee of paying more and more out of pocket for less care after being left to the mercy to the private insurance industry. There would only be a guarantee that millions of Americans would lose their jobs - only a guarantee that America's poor and disabled will live sicker and die younger while millionaires get another tax break they don't need and the nation cannot afford. This is not a path to prosperity, only a path to bankrupting seniors so Paris Hilton and BP can have another tax break. And there's nothing courageous about that.

This is pretty hard hitting stuff here and it's good to see the Dems go on the offensive.  They need to keep the pressure on Rep. Ryan and friends, and hang this vote around each one of the Republicans in the House for the next 18 months.

More of this, please.