Let's Do 2010 Again

In my estimation this may the most damaging ad the Romney campaign has or will produce. Using some very adroit political jujitsu the campaign has moved the discussion from from the Ryan budget to Obamacare and this is a subject Democrats had hoped to avoid. If the election turns into a referendum on Obamacare no sniveling about pre-existing conditions and women's reproductive right is going to overcome the outrage over the looting of the Medicare Trust Fund to finance Obamacare. Obamacare trims billions from the annual increases that health care providers would otherwise be getting over the next decade, cuts $68 billion from Medicare Advantage private plans by 2016 and requires more seniors to pay higher premiums if they are more affluent so don't believe the Wasserman-Schultz spin that Obama strengthened Medicare.
I've wondered for sometime how long the Republicans would let the opportunity to show the worst of Obamacare go unnoticed. The Democrats raided the Medicare Trust and replaced it with the death panel, IPAB. Never mind the spin about the cuts in the Ryan budget. The Ryan budget was written after Obamacare was passed and was constrained by the fact that Obamacare would be a part of future budgets. There is a world of difference in advocating frugality to extend the life of a faltering plan and taking $716 billion from that faltering plan and spending it on some grand vote buying scheme.
Now the Democrats want to make the Ryan budget an issue in every congressional campaign. Good. Let's have 2010 all over again. Marcy Kaptur did you raid Medicare? How about you Betty Sutton? Did you steal my benefits. And you Dennis, never mind you're not running. So what about Sherrod Brown, Bob Casey, Debbie Stabenow, and Claire McCaskill are their hands dirty? Once again, selecting Paul Ryan was the best thing Romney has ever done.