Medicare gets all the attention, for a lot of good reasons. But as TPM Reader KH argues the cuts to Medicaid are no less devastating, though most people don’t figure it will ever directly affect them …
I’m seeing little on what I think is one of the most devastating proposed results of the Ryan budget bill, if it ever was put into law, and one that has the potential to be just as powerful as the “Turn Medicare into a voucher program” part, if and when people ever begin to see what the Medicaid cuts mean. Most middle-income people have no idea the impact of the Medicaid cuts. They assume those have no direct results on them.
Mark Zuckerberg says the public is schizophrenic about its response to Facebook.
Kevin Drum says that all the weaseling aside, Mitt Romney may have a better argument than you think that he was for what President Obama did to bailout Detroit all along.
In case you missed it, here’s Ed Schultz’s lengthy and seemingly pretty heartfelt apology from tonight’s show. Watch it.
MSNBC has “accepted” Ed Schultz’s offer to take one week of unpaid leave for calling Laura Ingraham a “right wing slut” on his radio show.
Dem Rep. Robert Andrews (NJ) stands by claim that President Obama is “tilting toward Hamas.”
Only 5 of the 47 GOP senators voted against the House GOP’s Medicare-abolishing budget plan moments ago.
Gingrich reemerges as top defender of Ryan and Ryan plan … against people who are saying what he said two weeks ago.
It looks like Ed Schultz has a problem on his hands.
Nothing is definite. But we’re hearing that Sen. Reid will likely call a vote this afternoon on the Ryan Medicare Phase Out plan. In a press briefing a short time ago, Sen. Reid (D) said that the vote could come as early as 5 PM. And his office tells our Brian Beutler that the vote is “very likely” to happen as scheduled.
Late Update: And it’s confirmed. Vote will be held at 5 PM along with votes on Obama, Toomey and Paul budgets.