Like Sheep

Senate Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) put Senate Republicans in a hard spot today. Either break with your party, something Republicans have rarely done in the last decade, or vote to end Medicare. 40 Senate Republicans voted to end Medicare and for the Rep. Paul Ryan budget.

There can be no doubt the vote was scheduled by Harry Reid on purpose. It was intended to put Republicans on record. And now there can be no doubt, the official platform of the current GOP is to replace Medicare with a privatized voucher plan that CBO has reported won't keep pace with inflation and will cause health care costs for senior citizens to rise sharply.  Like sheep to slaughter is how George Washington would describe it.