Huff Post: John Breaux Sees Democrats Embracing Paul Ryan's Plan To 'End Medicare'

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/2012/04/28/john-breaux-paul-ryan-democrats_n_1461568.html?icid=hp_politics_art_more

WASHINGTON -- Democrats who are staking the 2012 election in part on the charge that Republicans will "end Medicare as we know it" likely will join in on that transformation once the election is over, according to high-powered lobbyist John Breaux, a Democrat and former senator from Louisiana.

"You're going to have to get past Nov. 5 or whenever the election is," Breaux told reporters after a Friday House hearing on "premium support," which is at the heart of Republican Rep. Paul Ryan's Medicare reform plan -- that Democrats equate with ending Medicare.

It's not that Breaux, whose clients at Patton Boggs include health care companies, doesn't understand the Democratic postion. The day before testifying, Breaux met with Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, who sparked his party's ire by advocating Ryan's premium support vision in a white paper.

"Listen, I talked to Ron Wyden yesterday," Breaux recounted. "He said, 'Don't get shot over there.'"

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[got root]

1. It's been that way since the 'third way' traitors took over.

IMHO

[anti-alec]

2. Just get out with it, Breux - confess that you are a Republican.

Then we can move on without your useless ass.

[Ikonoklast]

3. He's floating out the idea for his paymasters, who aren't even vaguely Democrats.

This is not going to happen.

[The Magistrate]

4. A Has-Been Who Never Really Was, Sir

Nobody gives the north end of a south-bound rat what this broke-down shit-heel predicts....

[TheKentuckian]

5. Ryan is a stalking horse being used to get Democratic rank and file to swallow some version

of the Catfood proposals.