From Gail Collins’ funny NYTimes column today about GOP offering amendments to health-care bill:
“The Republicans offered their first big motion of the debate, under the leadership of that famous fiscal hawk and former G.O.P. standard-bearer, John McCain. … Who got up and demanded that the bill be stripped of $450 billion in proposed Medicare savings.
“Come back with another bill. Only this time, don’t put the cost of it on the backs of senior citizens of this country,” he said.
It was a riveting moment. Perhaps never before had a member of the Senate dared to suggest that a piece of pending legislation should be changed so that senior citizens would be exempt from suffering.”
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