That is right…you heard it right…the GOP is defending Medicare from any cuts that the Obama Admin may be considering…..No…this is not some parallel universe….unless you consider Washington in some parallel universe…I guess we could a case that it is….but that would be for the math dudes to work it out with a pencil.

I will bet you are wondering why I am attempting to be humorous?  After decades of trying to find ways to dismantle Medicare, they are now concerned that the Obama group will hurt seniors in their declining years.  I am NOT making this stuff up…I swear!

As written in Medical News Today website:

The GOP’s change of stance on Medicare raises questions about its motives, The Associated Press reports in a separate story: “Weren’t Republicans against Medicare before they were for it? It’s a question vexing Democrats in the fierce battle over President Barack Obama’s push for a health care overhaul as the head of the Republican Party has portrayed the GOP as the lone bulwark preventing deep cuts to the popular, government-run health plan for older people.”

“It’s a remarkable turnaround for a party whose leaders tried to slash billions from Medicare more than a decade ago and have assailed the program as a wasteful entitlement. None other than Ronald Reagan, a hero to Republicans, warned in 1961 that creation of Medicare would push the country toward socialism. The new GOP posture may be politically savvy given older Americans’ fears of major changes to Medicare, which were among the concerns widely on display at angry town hall meetings across the country last month. But the new stance also contradicts the party’s long history of skepticism toward government-run programs and Republican concerns about the long-term viability and health of the Medicare system”

Even thew chairman of the RNC is on the “save Medicare” bandwagon:

“Our seniors have really come under fire in the last few weeks, as more and more proposals look to be cutting benefits out of Medicare programs,” Steele said of the six-point proposal, which calls for the president to not cut Medicare benefits in his health care overhaul.

In an October 2006 interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” then then-Senate candidate said that cuts to Medicare “absolutely” had to be “on the table” in order to “control runaway federal spending.”

“Everything has to be on the table, my friend,” Steele said at the time. “If you don’t have enough money in any given month, what do you do? You’ve got to reprioritize. You’ve got to take care of the business at hand.”

Are confused yet?  Don’t worry everybody is also……after a decade of trying to kill ALL Medicare and now they are ALL for saving it from the budget axe……

What brought about such a glorious turn around?  One word answer…..OBAMA!

You see if he, Obama, is calling for anything, anything at all then the GOP is against it….No it is not just politics…..it is a HATE for the man and his plan.