In an article you penned for Huffington Post March 19th, 2012, you said:
People on both sides of the aisle want to know why a progressive Democrat is working with the author of last year's House Budget on Medicare reform.
You went on to say you were worried for seniors being scammed by unscrupulous insurance companies, and then to fear-monger the imminent demise of the Medicare Guarantee.
I am not so convinced you were as successful as you hoped when you said you were educating Paul Ryan about nasty insurance companies and then tried to reassure us:
I do not know know what the details of the budget will be. I didn't write it and I can't imagine a scenario where I would vote for it.
So, Sen, Wyden, have you been listening to the big roll-out of the Romney-Ryan team today? Have you noticed that your name is being used to lend credibility to a plan to gut Medicare and turn it into a voucher system, all the while rending one of your own Party's arguments ineffective? To make these radicals seem all bipartisan-like?
From HuffPo today:
Last December, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) announced that he was joining with Ryan to propose a budget and entitlement reform plan.
It is this plan that Romney's own website says "almost precisely mirrors Mitt's ideas," in a section that answers the question of how his plan is "different from the Ryan plan."
The Wyden-Ryan plan complicates Democrats' plans to hit Romney and Ryan on their budget.
If you "can't imagine a scenario" where you would vote for it, it's time to take your fucking name off it.
If you plan to vote for it and think it's more important than re-electing Barack Obama and leaving millions of seniors, disabled people and the rest of us at risk and shared shitless, please stop calling yourself a Democrat.
I don't want to spend another hour disliking the sound of your name as much as I have all day today and expect I will continue to until you publicly disassociate yourself from Ryan-Wyden.