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Bass defends abolishing Medicare, saying it won't matter until 10 yrs on, as if it'll be bygones then
and:
Thanks to Guinta, Bass, a person 54 today would give earnings from 16-67 to a health insurance system that will not exist for her.
Bass is already losing indy votes over this, so today in WaPo he unveiled his plan:
The GOP's challenge was evident Friday to Rep. Charles F. Bass (R-N.H.), who fielded questions at a senior center in his district and said later that Democrats "have beaten the world record for getting misinformation out fast."
"The first thing [the seniors] asked me is whether or not I'm planning to vote to end Medicare completely," said Bass, elected last year in a swing district that he had previously represented for 12 years.
Bass said the encounter has convinced him he needs to compile a "fact sheet" to distribute to the senior centers in his district that would include the assurance that nobody 55 or older would be affected by the changes.
Take notice, voters; this is what Charlie Bass thinks of you.
Seniors, he's banking that you vote entirely based on self-interest. Too bad for everyone else, so long as I get mine, is what he thinks your values are.
Gen-Xers and Millenials? Bass knows you're not as reliable a voting bloc as seniors, and he's banking you'll be less informed about his vote to destroy a health insurance system you have been paying into in some instances for over two decades.
(birched; on Twitter @deanbarker)
SUNDAY UPDATE: Wow, the BassMaster hits a nat'l media triple play - he has become the poster boy for backlash on the Medicare vote:
Here in Hillsborough, a bedroom community in a state known for a fiscally conservative streak, Bass painted a doomsday picture, saying the country would be "basically ruined" if it did not curb the growth of government. But a group of gray-haired constituents - most later identified themselves as Democrats - quickly pushed him back on his heels. He struggled to defend the GOP plan vigorously, once mischaracterizing a key element. By the time he left, he seemed less than wedded to the details.
...Bass, for his part, struggled with the tax part of the plan, flatly denying that the proposal would cut taxes on wealthy individuals and saying incorrectly that the reduction applied only to corporations.
He later told a reporter he wasn't sure exactly what the budget resolution would do: