Right Wing "Forgetfulness"

This is funny. Paul Krugman has another zinger where he catches the right wing politicos trying to pull a fast one on the American people by carefully ignoring their earlier position to now sell themselves as "concerned" over Medicare recipients:

A senior moment on Medicare

Right now the GOP’s most effective attack on health reform seems to be the claim that Obama is going to ration health care to seniors; we even have legislation to prevent Medicare from taking research on the effectiveness of treatment into account in deciding what to pay for.

A number of people have pointed out that this is a bit funny coming from a party that tried to block Medicare’s creation. But I’ve seen very few references to the budget standoff of 1995, a standoff that temporarily shut down the US government. What was that about? It was about a Republican attempt to force sharp cuts in Medicare funding. True, the GOP never said it would ration care; it never explained how the cuts were supposed to work. But the plan would, in fact, have led to draconian rationing.

But somehow everyone seems to have forgotten about the whole thing.