Texas republican leads effort to kill Medicare

Remember all of those crazed seniors yelling 'hands off my Medicare"? Well, their Tea Party darlings in Congress have their hands all around Medicare's neck.

House Republicans would support a plan to privatize Medicare in their annual budget, a member of the GOP leadership said.

Texas Rep. Jeb Hensarling, the House Republican Conference Chairman and second-ranked GOP member of the budget committee, made the revelation during a panel discussion, according to the National Journal.