The GOP continued its bloody walk into the Medicare buzzsaw Wednesday, when 40 out of 47 Senate Republicans voted in support of the House GOP budget, and its plan to phase out and privatize the popular entitlement program.
Rounding things out was a test vote on an eye-popping plan by Rand Paul to dramatically and rapidly slash the size of the federal government -- in part by abolishing a number of federal agencies. It won the support of a small core of the most conservative members of the GOP -- Sens. Tom Coburn (R-OK), Jim DeMint (R-SC), Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Mike Lee (R-UT), David Vitter (R-LA), and Paul himself, along with his Kentucky colleague, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. But it failed by a wide 90-7 margin.
TVNL Comment: Let us tell you what an "entitlement" program really is...having children. Have a child...pay less tax. How is that for entitlement? Have children, who will require more services, both local and national, and pay less! Imagine that! It is the single largest entitlement program in the nation yet these jackasses are trying to kill Medicare!
Rep. Stephen Fincher (R-TN) agitated against food aid for poor Americans included in the Farm Bill...
