And yet it is today's Globe lead.
Related: Wasting Time With Congress
Yes, they know it is all political posturing, but....
"GOP’s Medicare plan falls in Senate; 3 N.E. Republicans bolt party on vouchers; Democrats say issue will help them in ’12" by Theo Emery, Globe Staff / May 26, 2011
WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats voted down a Republican budget yesterday along with its controversial plan to partially privatize Medicare, a vote that forced many GOP senators to endorse cuts to a popular program deeply valued by older voters.
The 57-to-40 tally, which Democrats said they would capitalize on in the 2012 campaign, came on the heels of another victory for them: In Tuesday’s special election in upstate New York, Democrat Kathy Hochul scored an upset by railing against the Republicans’ proposed Medicare overhaul.
So when are we getting a good, decent, humane single-payer system like any civilized nation?
The two events were cast by celebratory Democrats as a shift in the national political winds, a small political comeback after the drubbing they suffered in the 2010 midterm elections....
Democrats are hoping they can parlay opposition to the Medicare proposal into something bigger.
I remember when we elected them to end the wars in 2006.
How did that turn out?
Voters across the country can expect to see the Medicare controversy reprised in advertisements throughout the upcoming election season....
Yes, as long as the election is ABOUT ANYTHING BUT the WARS and the ECONOMY!
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I'm tired of wasting time viewing politics through prism of the Boston Globe.
