Republicans plan to destroy Medicare and blame it on Democrats: [View all]

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-social-security-cuts-1/
Republicans have said that Democrats need to come to their senses and join them in cutting Medicare and Social Security.



It's a trap.

It's the same trap they kept trying to push Obama into in his first administration after the 2009 crisis:

In the budget-negotiations with Obama, the Republicans demanded budget-cuts but REFUSED TO SAY what cuts they want. They just kept rejecting his ideas for cuts and demanding that he come up with new ones. Again and again and again and again.
AT THE SAME TIME in interviews, Republicans were pre-blaming Democrats for the impending destruction of Medicare... which wasn't even on the table... yet.

Their plan was to pressure Obama until he had no options left but to propose cuts to Medicare. And THEN Republicans could vote for those cuts while blaming the origin of the idea on Democrats.
Obama stopped their plan by refusing to endlessly come up with new ideas for budget-cuts. He asked THEM for what to cut. And that shut them up instantly.



The current republican plan is similar: Get Democrats to vote with Republicans on cutting Medicare.

Then you have the perfect dilemma:
Republicans can take credit for destroying Medicare while simultaneously blaming it on Democrats.

And the plan would work: Because voters are dumb and media only cares about rage-bait.