Daily Kos: PolitiFact '2011 Lie of the Year' finalist ... is true

[baldguy]

PolitiFact has named the claim that Republicans voted to end Medicare a finalist for their "2011 Lie of the Year" award.

The only problem? Republicans did vote to end Medicare. Even PolitiFact conceded that Republicans voted to end Medicare "as we know it." But because Republicans would replace the Medicare that we know with another program that they also call Medicare, PolitiFact says they did not in fact vote to end Medicare.

more:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/12/05/1042469/-PolitiFact-2011-Lie-of-the-Yearfinalist%C2%A0%C2%A0istrue?via=blog_1