What Wyden-Ryan hath wrought
The new Wyden-Ryan Medicare framework is the most fascinating policy and political maneuver of the year. Let me try to explain why.
First, until this moment, Rep. Paul Ryan's original Medicare plan had been slated to be the centerpiece of the Democrats' 2012 campaign, featuring all the predictable cries that the GOP is tossing Grandma off a cliff. By making sufficient adjustments to his plan to be able to draw the cooperation of a Democrat like Sen. Ron Wyden (Ore.), Ryan has plausibly inoculated his party against a full-frontal Mediscare campaign. Or at least he gives Republicans a credible rebuttal to neutralize it. After all, Wyden got into politics as the founder of the Oregon chapter of the Gray Panthers. The man's been a champion for seniors for 35 years. If he's standing with Ryan on Medicare, how evil can Ryan (and the GOP) be?
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