Five Rethug Myths About Medicare

Over at Buzzflash there's a list by editor Mark Karlin, Five Republican Myths About Medicare:

1. "Medicare is socialist" (often asserted by pre-Medicare age Tea Party members and the vestige of the John Birch Society right wing).
2. "Medicare is not run by the government, so it is not socialized" (sometimes claimed by Republican seniors, who then can argue against "socialized medicine" for the rest of Americans)
3. "Members of Congress receive the same benefits as Medicare recipients" (occasionally used by supporters of Paul Ryan's Medicare voucher program to "prove" that Republicans in Congress will receive the same care that they are proposing for seniors).
4. "Medicare is a waste of taxpayer dollars on the poor" (at times used by "poorly informed" Republicans, who don't know the difference between Medicare and Medicaid.)
5. "Medicare costs can only be reduced through a voucher program" (frequently used by advocates of Ryan's budget)

Be sure to check out the whole thing for Karlin's trenchant analysis and easy refutation of these myths.

The fact that they are so easily refuted leads me to believe that the people promulgating them are cynical politicians who will go to any lengths to dupe the American voting sheep public.

And that observation is my "No-Duh!" moment for today...

Really, What Would Republicans Do if They Ever Had the Chance?

Considering the unthinkable. A story over at Alternet really has my panties in a bunch.

If I wore any...

Anyway, back to the topic. The Smirking Chimp has an article on Alternet called 15 Awful Things the Republicans Would do if They Had the Chance.

Go ahead and read it. It's too long to reproduce here, but it's really spot-on in its indictment of the weird world of the wingnuttery, and it's an eye-opening look at the kind of society we will become if those motherfuckers actually get the kind of control they are lusting after.