If there’s one thing Congressional Democrats don’t like, it’s a clean spending bill – and this week they’re showing that their messaging hasn’t changed since at least the 1994-era “Republicans want to push grandma off a cliff” messaging.
With a potential government shutdown looming this week, Democrats’ coordinated messaging campaign to defeat a clean continuing resolution bill – which simply continues existing government funding through the end of the fiscal year – aims to terrify Medicare and Social Security recipients. They’re going to institute massive cuts in Medicare and Medicaid, they say, and allow Social Security to go fully belly-up. They’re especially targeting disabled people, who are generally recipients of both Medicare and SSI, leading them to believe they’ll lose both their income and their healthcare if this continuing resolution bill…
