Brian Bilbray: “I think one of the sad things about this Mediscare tactic is that the people that are trying to pull this off, the old…”

“I think one of the sad things about this Mediscare tactic is that the people that are trying to pull this off, the old establishment in Washington that cannot cope with the fact that it is time to move upward and onward to improve on the past and not allow the old systems to just collapse after 37 years. But I think what they really miss here with the Mediscare is that as the seniors find out about this problem, as they are being educated about this problem, their credibility and the credibility of the Washington establishment is slowly but surely crumbling more and more with this big lie that is going out there. I have advertisements running in my district attacking me on certain positions and they have not even taken the decency to check my vote. My colleague from Louisiana knows, because he serves on the Committee on Commerce with me that are working on this bill that the facts that we know and the facts that we are explaining to our seniors are nothing like the big lies that the Mediscare advertisements are saying out there. That, they really feel, will win them points. The seniors know what is going on. They are very sophisticated. I am getting 80 percent of my calls coming in saying, ``We don't believe these Mediscare tactics, keep going.'' I hope that the colleagues who are on the other side of the aisle who think that Mediscare will benefit them, it is destroying what little credibility that this town has left.”