Even MSM Join Budget Blowback

On Saturday, I posted Where Is OUR MSM Coverage?, featuring a Rachel Maddow video that decried the lack of MSM coverage of the blowback Republicans are getting over the Ryan budget plan, especially due to it dismantling Medicare.  Over the weekend, Democratic party organs and progressive advocacy groups started running ads, voters turned up the hear on their Republican representatives, and even the right-leaning MSM found the story too significant to ignore.  Being wrong isn’t so bad when I can be so in the company of the likes of Rachel.

First lets cover the ads.

The progressive advocacy group Americans United for Change is taking on the GOP, running versions of this ad on broadcast television 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.

The television ads are in addition to robocalls the organization began making last week in 23 districts for a total 360,000 calls. But Americans United for Change isn’t the only game in town. The House Majority PAC, a new Democratic Super PAC, has launched a six-figure ad buy with radio ads targeting 10 Republican House members… [emphasis added]

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The ad is great, but I have to say, I think using robocalls is a terrible idea.  When I get a phone call from machine, I get the distinct impression that the people behind it do not care what I think or have to say.

Now Rachel discusses the blowback with Chris Hayes.

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Do you believe that Shawn Duffy?!!?  What a Republican he is! “When you get your own town hall…”  I thought the propose of a town hall meeting was the exchange of ideas between representative and constituents!

I think Chris Hayes is dead on.  Get assurances that Obama will in fact veto it, and give the Republicans a straight up or down vote.  Then Republican Senators will be have the Ryan albatross around their necks.  And if a couple DINOs defect and it passes, that’s OK.  What better excuse could there be for challenging the DINOs in their next primary?  Obama can veto it and say, “I saved Medicare.”