GOP tries to screw well-off seniors

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A Medicare card.

To avoid taxing millionaires and other wealthy supporters, House Republicans OK'd a payroll tax cut that would be paid for in part by higher Medicare premiums for seniors who earn more than $80,000 a year.

Of course, there's no mention of Medicare in the news story that runs in The Record today, and interim Editor Doug Clancy made sure you'd have to search for it (A-5).


More crime news


Clancy chose crime news for the fourth day in a row to lead the GOP-friendly daily, bringing readers the breathtaking news that an ex-cop accused of murder failed drug tests during probation (A-1). What a bad guy he must be.


The photo in the middle of the front page is from Parksville, N.Y. Is that near Park Ridge, Palisades Park or Park and Ride? 


It's hard to believe there were no North Jersey images worthy of Clancy's A-1.


Clancy seems more comfortable dramatizing police and fire news than an investigative piece on a Bergen County insider by Staff Writer Jeffs Pillets or former Gov. Jon Corzine's latest shucking and jiving about $1.2 billion in client funds. 


Temper tantrum


What about Governor Christie's style of leadership -- retaliating against state Sen. Richard Codey, D-Essex (A-4). Why isn't that on Page 1?


"When Christie doesn't get his way, he stomps his feet and terminates people just to show he's boss," a Democratic leader noted.


Also on A-4, a photo caption by Editor Liz Houlton's news copy desk incorrectly calls an unusually large airplane designed to carry spaceships a "giant spaceship."


When is someone going to slap former Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky as hard as possible across the face to bring him back to the reality of the molesting charges against him (A-9)?


He ducked out of a court hearing, where he would have faced accusers, saying he intends "to fight for four quarters."


You won't find any Hackensack municipal or school news in the Local section today, but you will find another column by Road Warrior John Cichowski on the parents of teen drivers (L-1).