{"id":9191,"date":"2011-12-14T22:39:08","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T03:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=9191"},"modified":"2011-12-14T22:40:51","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T03:40:51","slug":"the-bipartisan-political-alliance-that-will-turn-the-fight-over-medicare-on-its-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/12\/14\/the-bipartisan-political-alliance-that-will-turn-the-fight-over-medicare-on-its-head\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bipartisan Political Alliance That Will Turn The Fight Over Medicare On Its Head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Talking Points Memo<\/em> article <a title=\"Talking Points Memo article\" href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2011\/12\/the-bipartisan-political-alliance-that-will-turn-the-fight-over-medicare-on-its-head.php?ref=fpa\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Bipartisan Political Alliance That Will Turn The Fight Over Medicare On Its Head<\/strong><\/a> talks about an alliance between a Senator and a Representative.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) is teaming up with Paul Ryan, the House\u2019s top budget guy and the author of the GOP\u2019s controversial budget which proposes phasing out traditional Medicare and replacing it with a private plan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There is a lot of verbiage in the article that makes it a little confusing as to which of the two politicians has moved the most off of his own original plan.<\/p>\n<p>It always makes me nervous when Wyden pulls a stunt like this.\u00a0 I voted for him when I lived in Oregon.\u00a0 He was known for being a strong advocate for seniors before he was elected to the Senate.\u00a0 Some of the things he has done since then with regard to Medicare and Social Security make me wonder, &#8220;What on earth is Ron thinking?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Most of the surprises from Ron Wyden since his\u00a0 election as\u00a0 Senator have not been pleasant for me, who supported him.<\/p>\n<p>He was doing so well with his threatened filibuster of the terrible internet bills. See <strong><a title=\"Previous post\" href=\"..\/2011\/11\/23\/senator-wyden-filibuster-of-sopapipa-censorship-bills\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" target=\"_blank\">Senator Wyden Filibuster Of SOPA\/PIPA Censorship Bills<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 Then he goes and disappoints with this needless cave on Medicare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Talking Points Memo article The Bipartisan Political Alliance That Will Turn The Fight Over Medicare On Its Head talks about an alliance between a Senator and a Representative. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) is teaming up with Paul Ryan, the House\u2019s top budget guy and the author of the GOP\u2019s controversial budget which proposes phasing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9191","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9191"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9193,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9191\/revisions\/9193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}