Have the Democrats thrown Granny off the cliff yet?
You’ve probably seen the TV ad attacking the House Republicans’ budget: A guy who looks a lot like the budget chairman, Rep. Paul Ryan, is pushing a little old lady in a wheelchair, as an ominous voice warns of the dangers of the GOP proposal. Finally they reach the end of a trail and — whoops!
There goes Granny.
The Democrats’ budget message is clear: Republicans want to smother your grandmother with a pillow and give her Medicare money to Mitt Romney.
That’s what I love about liberals: their nuance and subtlety.
If Ryan were to make his own version of this ad, he’d replace the wheelchair with a school bus. He’d talk about how Social Security has been in the red since 2010, Medicare’s trust fund runs out in 2024, and how we’re sticking our kids with $100 trillion in unfunded entitlements and debt.
Then, as the bus full of screaming children hurled over the cliff, Ryan would ask, “I’m trying to stop this from happening, Mr. President. What’s your plan?”
Ryan is too classy to run such an ad. Instead he’s got a YouTube message saying it would be immoral for a president and Congress to see a crisis coming but choose to “do nothing because it wasn’t good politics.”
“This debt crisis is the most predictable debt crisis we’ve ever had in our country, and look what’s happening,” Ryan says. And he’s right.
Which is why it’s so reprehensible that President Barack Obama and the Democrats are simply refusing to acknowledge the problem even exists. Obama’s budget actually makes matters worse, adding trillions in new debt over the next 10 years.
Link:Dems’ credibility falls - BostonHerald.com
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