Too many conservatives have short memories. When the Clinton White House and the media falsely portrayed GOP efforts to slow the growth of Medicare spending as “cuts,” conservatives complained bitterly. House Republicans even put out a 39-page press kit to rebut the “the lies the Democrats and their allies” were spinning on the GOP’s spending proposal. Times have changed. Today, many conservatives, particularly in the House, have simply adopted the same Democratic tactic in an effort to undermine the president’s immigration proposal. As the editors of the Wall Street Journal note,
It’s bad enough that Republicans have embraced Democratic spending habits. Now, some of them have incorporated the Democrats’ Medicare scare tactics into their own rhetoric on immigration. No wonder we could be looking at Speaker Pelosi.
