Once Medicare’s defender, Roy Blunt votes to cut benefits

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Politicians are inordinately awful people. Not all are broken, adulation-starved and capable of acts of hypocrisy that would give normal people diarrhea for a week, of course — just an unusually high number of them.

Yesterday, U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri voted for the House Republican budget that puts Medicare on a voucher system, a scheme that shifts costs to seniors in a pretty substantial way. Yet during the campaign, Blunt tried to brand his opponent as a Medicare-benefit cutter and said he’d fight to protect seniors.