Maddow smacked down! 700 billion dollars in Obama cuts to Medicare debated

I missed the back and forth on the Meet the Press hour this weekend but Newsbusters has the segment pertaining to the Medicare issues.  HERE is the article, video and transcript. HERE is a bipartisan review of both plans. Ryan's proposal doesn't affect Medicare recipients  until after 2023.

I watch the program once in a while but I have found that most of the time  it is a campaign ad for the democrats and their positions.  Whenever a Republican is on the host, David, (I love the left) Gregory shuts them down right before they are able to get the truth out.  The exchange here between Rich Lowry and ever pink, Rachel Maddow of MSNBC is fun to watch and listen to.

Usually Maddow slices and dices R's on her program (when one is rarely on)  and just like Bill Maher on HBO, the guests are usually of the same ilk as are the audience members.  But for once, at least for a short time, David Gregory let the two duke it out on the Medicare issue. Lowry trounce the Maddow.

In a nutshell, Lowry pointed out the Obamacare law, passed only with democrat votes, cuts 700 billion buckos from the program and uses it elsewhere.  He points out the lamestream media (my opinion) has never taken Obama and the democrats to task as they always do if a R even mutters in private the same thing.  The press would bludgeon the perp on a daily basis and run him out of town.  He would be called worse than the devil for even suggesting a slow down in the growth of a program like Medicare let alone a "cut" of actual dollars.  But the democrats never get called on this massive cut to the healthcare we all pay into.

Maddow in fact tried to obfuscate the issue by saying the Paul Ryan budget (where the dems made a commercial showing him tossing granny off a cliff) was simply the same as the Obamacare cuts so she touts a "moral equivalency" and refuses to denounce the very cuts she accuse Ryan of proposing.  Even though Obama is actually making the cuts! Note the "Ryan" budget passed the House and died in the Harry Reid Democrat Senate).   Lowry attempted time after time to get her to take a position on the Obama cuts  but she refused.  He said are you for or against the Obama 700 billion dollar cuts?  She responded each time that she was not running for President.  Lowry said are you not a self described opinion maker on your program?  He boxed her in to the hypocrite corner in a simple masterful way.

Her refusal to complain about the same issue she bashes R's about reminds me of the tax return issue she and the democrats use to try and diss Romney about.  Pelosi and Harry Reid said when confronted with their own refusal to release their tax returns (and both are in line for the Presidency under the Constitution) that "they are not running for President" so they will not hold themselves to the same standards as they hold others.  That is why Romney/Ryan will win in November.

Every time these democrat lovelies refuse to do as they tell us to do, Americans backs get tougher.  Thank goodness for alternative media.  We now get to see the hypocrisy of the left.   They have been so protected by their pals over the years in the lamestream media (90% of whom voted for Obama!) these lefties are arrogant beyond the pale.  When a "opinion maker" like Maddow gets cornered in her own hypocrisy and people get to hear the truth about these issues, maybe there is going to be a turnaround in thinking.  It is the democrats and Obama who are cutting Medicare, not Romney and all the hot air from the left trying to convince Americans otherwise will be soundly defeated.

What is so fascinating to me about the Obama/Maddow obfuscations is they  have outsmarted themselves and the tsunami of voters will hand them their walking papers.  Maddow already is losing her audience and is probably not going to make it.  She will eventually end up over at Al Gore's Current TV and probably get booted from there just as Olbermann did.  Even that far far left can't hack them sometimes.

So all you seniors out there listening to who actually is doing What to whom, pay close attention please.  The democrats and Obama are cutting you Medicare by 700 billion dollars, not the Republicans.  There will be more.