Ruth Marcus's complaints about Democrats' "Mediscare"

http://thinkprogress.org/yglesias/2011/05/31/231226/mediscare-works-because-the-consequences-of-privatizing-medicare-are-scary Matthew Yglesias: Mediscare Works Because The Consequences of Privatizing Medicare Are Scary</a>: "Here's what's true: If you go back and look at the quotes from the time Congressional Republicans tried to privatize Medicare in the mid-1990s they do sound a lot like the quotes from the time Congressional Republicans tried to privatize Medicare in 2011. That's because many people believe that it would be a bad idea to privatize Medicare, so every time the congressional leadership tries to privatize Medicare you have people speaking up against this idea. And we speak up against it in similar terms because the terms that have been used in the past are politically effective. And they are politically effective because the consequences of privatizing Medicare are scary..."