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Posted at 07:45 AM ET, 08/16/2012TheWashingtonPost

Morning Bits

By Jennifer Rubin

 

Something’s got David Axelrod’s

. “Is there something internal in the polling?” Hmm. Could it be Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.)? Maybe his internal polling matches this battleground state polling.

The media have a cow over Fareed Zakaria’s plagiarism. But that’s not the half of it. “Borrow a line or two from the New Yorker and it’s a major punishable offense. Repeatedly serve up the flawed left-wing conventional wisdom on taxes, spending, and the Middle East, and get rewarded with your own television show and a Harvard honorary degree.”

Who’d have thought that Medicare could be the issue that seals the deal for the Republicans? “[T]o pass Obamacare, the president cut Medicare by more than $700 billion over the coming decade, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). And these cuts are of the worst kind. They are arbitrary and across the board. They reduce reimbursement rates for all who provide services to Medicare patients, regardless of how well or badly they treat their patients. Among the cuts is a $156 billion reduction in payments to Medicare Advantage plans over ten years. These cuts will force seniors to pay $3,700 more read morehttp://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/morning-bits/2012/08/15/1ecfeabc-e718-11e1-8f62-58260e3940a0_blog.html