2016 Postmortem
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It's looking like a Romney victory -- inter alia -- would mean Medicare abolished and replaced with a voucher program this Spring.
From Jon Chait ...
Let's first imagine that, on January 20, Romney takes the oath of office. Of the many secret post-victory plans floating around in the inner circles of the campaigns, the least secret is Romney's intention to implement Paul Ryan's budget. The Ryan budget has come to be almost synonymous with the Republican Party agenda, and Romney has embraced it with only slight variations. It would repeal Obamacare, cut income-tax rates, turn Medicare for people under 55 years old into subsidized private insurance, increase defense spending, and cut domestic spending, with especially large cuts for Medicaid, food stamps, and other programs targeted to the very poor.
Few voters understand just how rapidly Romney could achieve this, rewriting the American social compact in one swift stroke. Ryans plan has never attracted Democratic support, but it is not designed for bipartisanship. Ryan deliberately built it to circumvent a Senate filibuster, stocking the plan with budget legislation that is allowed, under Senate budget reconciliation procedures, to pass with a simple majority. Republicans have been planning the mechanics of the vote for many months, and Republican insiders expect Romney to use reconciliation to pass the bill. Republicans would still need to control 50 votes in the Senate (Ryan, as vice-president, would cast the tiebreaking vote), but if Romney wins the presidency, hell likely precipitate a partywide tail wind that would extend to the GOPs Senate slate.
10.15.2012 12:13 PM JOSH MARSHALL
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joycejnr
(326 posts)...where the Republicans have taught us some valuable lessons in obstructionism in the past term. It'll be our turn.
flpoljunkie
(26,184 posts)http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2012/10/scared_get_scared.php?m=1
pnwmom
(108,980 posts)budget reconciliation process, which requires only a majority vote.
We must keep them from getting even a bare majority in the Senate.
Tree-Hugger
(3,370 posts)Blue Idaho
(5,049 posts)Fear can be paralyzing and demoralizing - but I will continue to do all I can to help our President win a second term in office. I will donate what I can when I can, offer rides to the polls, make phone calls, and anything else I have the time and money for.
I carry an old first aid card from Jr. High and on it it says "Knowledge Replaces Fear." I like that!
Lets go FORWARD together and win this damn thing!
smorkingapple
(827 posts)Would be killer, especially in FL.
FrenchieCat
(68,867 posts)Now, that should be motivation enough to go out and vote for Obama, if nothing else does it!
Zoeisright
(8,339 posts)American deserves what she gets. And if Rmoney steals it, then the suffering is earned.
flpoljunkie
(26,184 posts)flamingdem
(39,313 posts)for everyone. Let's hope we never find out just how much damage they'd do.
In GD an article says minimum $200 mo. increase for Medicare users.
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)the older age groups would be angry and scared but the message isn't getting through.
flpoljunkie
(26,184 posts)amborin
(16,631 posts)Nor that the deficit is a take issue.
I hope the campaign has good ads to combat the ones targeting swing state moms--scaring them about the deficit. Bernie Sanders has goog insights on it:
Plus, Romney left Mass. With a big deficit. He was a big spender. Hope the message is getting out there.
nc4bo
(17,651 posts)and no one can seem to nail his squirrel hide to a tree and get those specifics disclosed and exposed.
ancianita
(36,060 posts)He should be attacked at all times for denying everything he's ever taken a stand on.
lillypaddle
(9,580 posts)I don't believe it.
flpoljunkie
(26,184 posts)That's why we must work very hard to make sure Romney does not have a chance to pass Ryan's 'marvelous' budget.
lillypaddle
(9,580 posts)and I am scared. But I'd like a little break from the fear mongering, at least here on DU. I think we all know what would happen if rmoney is elected. We don't need the fear to be motivated.