Joe Scarborough: “That is what is so shameful about people getting up here and saying, we have a plan, and our plan is to keep Medicare…”

“That is what is so shameful about people getting up here and saying, we have a plan, and our plan is to keep Medicare the way it is. I will tell you, there is a correlation between our Medicare plan and what happened there, and also what happened with the Contract With America. As the gentleman mentioned, some in the Democratic party came on board with us. So I think that the votes in the first 100 days, I believe about 310 Members joined together, Republicans and Democrats alike, to pass that. The same thing is going to happen on Medicare, because I will tell my colleagues, the gentlewoman that stood up from Connecticut this morning and said, we want to keep the Medicare status quo, we want to keep it the way it is now, we want to forget about the reforms, we want to forget about the fact that Medicare is going bankrupt in 7 years according to the Medicare trustees, is making former Governor Mario Cuomo's point for him exactly. He said on a radio talk show, the Democratic party is out of power because basically we put our head in the sands for too long; we are living in the past, we have offered no solutions. For somebody to stand up here on the floor and with a straight face tell the senior citizens, which the gentlewoman from Connecticut was doing, that we can keep going on the same fail path that we have followed for the past few years, with the rate of growth going the way it is without any changes or any reforms whatsoever, we can keep doing it that way, is shameful.”