In an interview with Ezra Klein over at the Washington Post, DCCC chairman Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) shot back at the current Republican arguments about protecting Medicare from the Democrats:
The hypocrisy is shameless. I won’t go through the history of Medicare, but for Republicans to say that you should trust us on Medicare is like Colonel Sanders guarding the chicken coop. I think most seniors know that, and these scare tactics will boomerang. I don’t think people will buy it, since the guys peddling this stuff are the very people who have been trying to undermine and weaken Medicare for years and years. There was a budget alternative put forward by Paul Ryan this year that would have ended Medicare as we know it and given all seniors a voucher to get their health care on the private market. And they voted for it. So we know what they wanted to do with Medicare.
