Martin Hoke: “for the past 8 months liberal interest groups have been advertising in my district, and we have heard a drum beat of the…”

“for the past 8 months liberal interest groups have been advertising in my district, and we have heard a drum beat of the same message here in the Congress from the minority, where millions of dollars have been spent trying to scare seniors about Medicare and mislead the public about what Congress is trying to do to secure America's future. Most people recognize that the ads and the rhetoric are completely politically motivated and dismiss them, but the problem with the big lie is that if it is repeated often enough some people will believe it. And the real tragedy will be if it works, because, let us face it, it really does not matter if I am back or any particular individual is back, but what matters very, very deeply is if our Nation misses this extraordinary opportunity to stop stealing from our children's future to save Medicare from bankruptcy, most importantly, to renew the American dream and to get our country back on the right track. That would be an incalculable tragedy. So, Mr. Speaker, I just hope that you are listening and the American people are listening, and that this demagoguery and scare-mongering is not effective.”