i m allison lundergan-grimes. senator, i m a retired coal miner. i d like to know how you could have voted to raise my medicare cost to $6,000. how are you wife and i supposed to afford that? you can tell when an attack ad draws blood by the level of defensiveness. on a scale of 1 to 10, i d say this was about a 10. as barack obama s kentucky candidate, alison grimes repeats the same falsehoods obama does, but news media call the grimes/obama medicare attack laughable, using shaky claims to mischaracterize mitch mcconnell s record. okay. on the facts, the mcconnell campaign is right here. that $6,000 estimate was revised down and the guy in the ad would most likely not have been affected by the proposed medicare changes. and also, technically, mitch mcconnell never voted to pass the ryan budget when it was orange fallfallly proposed in 2.
alison lundgren grimes has released a political ad targeting mitch mcconnell. this is don disney from cloverlake, kentucky, and he has a question for senator mcconnell. senator, i m a retired coal miner. i want to know how you could have voted to raise my medicare costs to $6,000. grimes is facing heat for the ad. several political fact-checkers are saying mcconnell didn t actually vote for the measure mr. disney is referring to. on msnbc.com, a new study links oklahoma earthquakes to fracking. evidence that fracking may cause earthquakes is mounting. the magazine science outlines a strong link between the placement of fracking wastewater in underground disposal wells and increased seismic activity. and that is your morning dish of scrambled politics. so, right now i am joined by washington post reporter ed o keefe. good morning, ed! good to see you, betty. let s talk about president obama. he s going to be in texas today for fund-raisers and to talk border security
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