Joe Scarborough: “there they go again. There they go again. Now the Washington Post called what they are taking under here, called it…”

“there they go again. There they go again. Now the Washington Post called what they are taking under here, called it medagoguery. Ted Koppel in ``Nightline'' talked about how the Democrats were scaring senior citizens to try to get reelected. In fact they called it Mediscare. What we are seeing are a group of people who were so afraid to save the system that the President's own Medicare advisers said was going bankrupt that they will resort to anything to get reelected. It was the President's task force that said we must save Medicare. So we did something radical. We said we would allow Medicare to grow at 7.2 percent. The President said, let us let it grow at 7.4 percent, and we were told we wanted to destroy the system. Well, I agree with the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Traficant]. Mr. Speaker, if saving Medicare is being mean to senior citizens, beam me up, because I do not understand this place anymore.”