“Obamacare promised to lower health-care costs,” said Luntz. “The messaging on Social Security for the ‘they are greedy geezers’ elites is that we can’t afford Social Security, that it’s in crisis. This was a way to disguise what they wanted, which was to shift Social Security money to Wall Street. First, Bush had sprung the Social Security campaign on Republicans — there was little evidence that it was coming during his presidential campaign. That, said Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), contrasts with the Obamacare repeal campaign that every elected Republican had bought into.

Source: Washington Post March 16, 2017 19:55 UTC