From “Fox News Sunday”:
CHRIS WALLACE (host): Senator McCaskill, do you really believe that that’s possible, that you can take hundreds of billions of dollars out of Medicare without cutting services to seniors?
SEN. CLAIRE MCCASKILL (D-MO.): Well, I don’t know how many ads you’ve seen for scooters on cable TV, but I see a lot of them. Those are scooters paid for by the American people, and a lot of them are going to folks who don’t need scooters.
Perhaps Scooter McCaskill can tell us why, if there is low-hanging fruit of hundreds of billions of dollars in Medicare savings ripe for the picking, why hasn’t it already been picked?
As I wrote last week:
Here’s a thought. Following the common-sense logic (as well as political wisdom) of controlling our borders before launching current illegals on a path to citizenship, why not start right now imposing all that efficiency and cost-saving on Medicare and Medicaid? All that saved money could then, well, be put in a “lockbox” like the Social Security funds and, once it has grown to a trillion dollars or so it could then be spent on Obama’s ambitious shiny new plan!
Oh, wait….
Here’a another thought: why doesn’t Scooter McCaskill gather together a posse of other Democratic scooter snoopers and sniff out all that waste, fraud, and abuse right now. If they succeeded in saving several hundreds of billions of dollars without diminishing Medicare services I’m sure they’d find a large audience more willing to listen to their other health care arguments — that it will be revenue neutral; that it will not increase the deficit in either the short or long run; that it will not provide services to illegals, etc. — without laughing.
“Well, I don’t know how many ads you’ve seen for scooters on cable TV, but I see a lot of them.”
What exactly is a Congressman doing watching TV in the first place, watching so much that she knows that there a lot of scooter commercials.
Wow, we really do have the wrong set of people in Congress. I’d prefer that she read the US Constitution, you know the document, the one she took an OATH to support. She might look in Article I, section 8 to see the “few and defined” powers (Federalist #45) Congress actually has. And for those who like this Congressman are especially dense in the head the Framers underscored the limitation of powers by inserting the 10th Amendment.