Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) has set up a new web site DontEndMedicare.com: Don't let Republicans End Medicare, which provides an interactive map and list of scheduled Tea-Publican town hall events so you can attend and tell your Tea-Publican congresscritter what you think of their vote to end Medicare as we know it.
Via Greg Sargent at the Washington Post's Plum Line:
Nancy Pelosi’s office offers some new messaging on Medicare for Dems:
Democrats have a plan to ensure older Americans have access to affordable, high quality care — it’s called Medicare and it currently serves more than 46 million Americans.
Not bad.
Public hostility toward Rep. Paul Ryan's Roadmap to America's Ruin and the Tea-Publican vote to end Medicare as we know it caught up to "Tater Tot" (h/t Phoenix New Times) last night at a town hall meeting in Anthem. Congressman Quayle Takes Heat for Medicare Decision:
Monday night at a town meeting in Anthem, it was Ben Quayle who got beat up a bit while meeting with his constituents.
Many people in the crowd were fired up about about his stance on the proposed changes to the Medicare system.
In addition, "Tater Tot" got beat up a bit for his vote to support tax subsidies to major oil companies that recently reported some of the highest profits in the history of the world. Constituents Laugh At GOP Rep. Quayle For Denying Existence Of Billions In Special Oil Subsidies:
At a town hall in Anthem last night, Quayle was asked by a constituent why he had pushed to cut services for the elderly and women while pushing massive tax cuts for the rich and tax subsidies for the oil industry. In a condescending manner, Quayle demanded that the constituent name the specific subsidies targeted towards oil companies. The constituent didn’t miss a beat, and reminded him that the Senate just last week held a hearing where oil industry CEOs defended billions in special taxpayer money. Quayle then went on to deny that any of the subsidies used by the oil industry are at all targeted:
CONSTITUENT: I’d like to know why you’d like to do this on the backs of seniors, and of women. All the cuts are going to hurt seniors, future seniors, and women! Your attacks on Planned Parenthood are hurting women who need healthcare. […] And why are you are choosing that way rather than cutting oil subsidies […]
QUAYLE: In terms of the oil subsidies, if we’re going to address it, can you just tell me what oil subsidies you’re talking about so I could have better information on what to expand on it?
CONSTITUENT: Why were the oil companies coming to defend their subsidies in front of the Senate? Those subsidies, anything in which we give them money when they’re making billions off of us every day.
AUDIENCE: That’s right!
QUAYLE: The things they were talking about were actually tax deductions that corporations across all sorts of sectors take in terms of R&D, in terms of equipment deductions, the life of the equipment, those were the deductions that they were talking about and it’s not specific to the oil industry […]
[AUDIENCE LAUGHTER]
Watch it:
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