Medicare Could Cost the GOP in 2012 Election - The Daily Beast

Medicare Could Cost the GOP in 2012 Election - The Daily Beast: "Every few years, members of the majority party in Congress unite to cast a vote that breaks through the din of daily procedural motions and defines a congressional career, for better or worse. And it happened again Wednesday.
In 1993, the Democratic-controlled Congress voted to approve President Bill Clinton's budget, complete with a call for deficit reduction and a tax increase. Fifteen months later, Democrats lost control of the House and Senate and watched dozens of their colleagues pack up their offices and go home in defeat.
                
Under President George W. Bush, Senate Republicans followed their president's lead and voted to approve a controversial bill reforming the immigration system". The legislation failed to pass Congress, but ignited a furor among conservative voters across the country and cost Republicans crucial support in the 2006 and 2008 elections.