Cantor: Medicare played 'undeniable' role in NY-26

I find it odd that the Repubicans are calling foul when they did something similiar to the Democrats during the healthcare debate. The only difference is, the Democrats are actually telling the truth and the Republicans were not. If the President continues to have small successes at home and abroad, 2012 is going to be a rough year for the Republicans. Let the games begin.

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) and newly elected Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz weighed in on the upset win by Democrat Kathy Hochul in New York's 26th Congressional District Sunday, with Cantor saying it was "undeniable" that Medicare had played a role in the outcome.

"It's undeniable that it played some role in the election. Any time you have one side demagoguing and frankly, accusing the other side in a way that’s not factual of trying to reform the program, certainly that’s going to influence the electorate," Cantor said on CBS's "Face the Nation." "As far as Medicare is concerned, there’s a simple choice here - either we’re going to save the program or let it go bankrupt."

Wasserman Schultz, who appeared just after Cantor said, "Coming from the majority leader," who was one of the "architects" of a 2010 midterm congressional election victory "focused on scaring seniors about what Democrats were doing with Medicare, he would know."

"What we’re doing is making sure we can prevent Republicans from ending Medicare as we know it," she said. "That’s what Kathy Hochul ran on leading up to her victory this Tuesday in New York 26."

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