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  GOP Freshmen On Medicare Attacks: Let's Let Bygones Be Bygones
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Last EditedServo  May 11, 2011 07:40pm
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AuthorBrian Beutler
News DateThursday, May 12, 2011 01:40:00 AM UTC0:0
DescriptionHouse Republican freshmen admit that their so-called "MediScare" attacks on Democrats helped them win a big majority in 2010. Democrats had voted for the health care law, which included $500 billion in "cuts" to Medicare -- primarily slashing overpayments to private insurers -- and Republican challengers never let them forget it.

Now, they say, it's time to let bygones be bygones.

Nearly a dozen House Republican freshmen held a press conference outside the Capitol Tuesday morning to "wipe the slate clean," and "hit the reset button."
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