Karl Rove wrote an editorial for The Wall Street Journal this week arguing that the GOP has the edge when it comes to Medicare. David Shuster wants to talk to him about a few things.
I know the paper's standards have dropped precipitously in the five years since Rupert Murdoch bought it. Still, your ability to get the editorial page to publish musings that are as illogical, nonsensical and ridiculous as what you wrote this week — well, it's just amazing.
It's almost as impressive as your bamboozling of Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald in the CIA leak investigation six years ago. Remember when Fitzgerald was considering charges against you for possible perjury and obstruction of justice?
Lawyers in the case thought you would get indicted. Taking cues from them, I said on MSNBC that I thought you would get indicted. Your 11th-hour con of Fitzgerald is something many of us will never forget.
Anyway, back to your bamboozling of Wall Street Journal readers.
You write that the "GOP doesn't cut Medicare spending" because the party still projects growth in spending over the next decade. You added that it is "just 3% less than what President Obama proposes." But in the very next paragraph you wrote, "The president's legislation cuts Medicare …"
As you know, Congressman Paul Ryan and President Obama — in their respective budgets — extract the same $716 billion in Medicare savings. But you say it's "not a cut" when Ryan does it and it is a cut when the Obama administration does it. Do you get paid to write this nonsense?
There are some key differences in what Rep. Ryan and President Obama do with the $716 billion Medicare extraction. The Obama administration uses this money to help Medicare beneficiaries pay for prescription drugs and to enable more seniors to get preventive care, like cancer screenings. Ryan uses this money to cover the loss in federal revenue from tax cuts he wants to give the rich.
Still, how have you managed to get The Wall Street Journal not to disclose any of this? I think there are still a few people working there who have a modicum of integrity. Then again, I've been wrong in my thinking before.
Best wishes,
David S.
P.S. Do you still go by the nickname "turd blossom"?
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