have now just voted to get rid of it. social security and medicare are a promise we have made to our seniors. and and i will keep that promise. i ll never put our seniors future at risk. no cuts, no privatization, and no scaring our seniors. we have got to fulfill our commitment to our seniors. the promises that we have made. cutting medicare $500 billion to pay for obamacare. that s wrong. i am committed to making sure that our seniors have the benefits that they re entitled to and that they ve earned, whether it s social security or medicare. it s ludicrous on its face to think that me as a physician would want to see medicare dissolved. part of a dccc add running today. all of those republicans campaigned on protecting medicare, then they went to washington and voted for the paul ryan republican budget, which would do away with it. democrats appear to be moving on this in maybe even a coordinated way. this new ad from the democrats house campaign committee
and if it passes, let the president veto it and say, i saved medicare, and go tour around these countries and say, these big, bad republicans wanted to end your medicare and i saved it. it s an obvious political winner. i think that s the most obvious thing to do. the other thing to do, and we re already seeing this from the white house, is make the paul ryan budget the enemy, the opponent. before you have an actual presidential opponent, before there are actual opponents who file in states and in house districts, make it the opponent. get every republican candidate on the record, if they re not incumbents now, would you have voted on it if you re not in office now? make that the central issue. chris hayes, washington editor of the nation magazine, msnbc contributor, and good sport who said this worked when it totally didn t, but i really appreciate you saying so. thank you, chris. thanks, rachel. we have been reporting about some extraordinary things being done by the governme
these big, bad republicans wanted to end your medicare and i saved it. it s an obvious political winner. i think that s the most obvious thing to do. the other thing to do, and we re already seeing this from the white house, is make the paul ryan budget the enemy, the opponent. before you have an actual presidential opponent, before there are actual opponents who file in states and in house districts, make it the opponent. get every republican candidate on the record, if they re not incumbents now, would you have voted on it if you re not in office now? make that the central issue. chris hayes, washington editor of the nation magazine, msnbc contributor, and good sport who said this worked when it totally didn t, but i really appreciate you saying so. thank you, chris. thanks, rachel. we have been reporting about some extraordinary things being done by the government of the state of michigan to the people of the state of michigan. we ve reported specifically on the city of bent
this in maybe even a coordinated way. this new ad from the democrats house campaign committee followed another one that the democrats released last week. there are also liberal outside groups who are now organizing on the issue as well. for example, a group called social security works now says they ll be holding their own events in the district of some of these swing state republicans who just voted for the paul ryan budget. if i did not know any better, i would say that not only voting to kill medicare is really, really unpopular, but republicans who voted for that are getting held accountable for that vote by their own constituents and the democratic party is noticing that and capitalizing on it and the grassroots liberal groups are noticing that and capitalizing on it too and it s getting national press coverage. i mean, am i awake? is this really happening? this is not usually the way it works. joining us now is chris hayes, washington editor of the nation magazine and msnbc con
budget and republicans voting against it, voting to end medicare, is causing a small scale freakout. house republicans are going to be holding a conference call tomorrow. it s not a conference call for outsiders, it s not for the media. it is a conference call for themselves. the national journal reporting today, republicans with knowledge of the call say that part of the call will be spent discussing ways to discuss the paul ryan budget vote with constituents. one source says it s intended to help swing district members, quote, who have been getting the crap kicked out of them. heavens. national journal also reporting that some republican congressmen in swing districts decided against holding town halls during this congressional recess, instead, opting for more low-profile events. smelling political opportunity here, the democrats house campaign committee has started running this ad, picking off specific republican members of congress who said they would always protect medicare