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This Sunday s guests are House Republican Majority Leader Eric Cantor and the new Chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee DNC , Representative Debbie Wasserman-Schultz.When Democrats won a special election this week in upstate New York, the buzz around Washington focused on the House GOP plan to change Medicare and cut spending. Democrats say that as soon as candidate Kathy Hochul brought up the Medicare plan, written by Rep. Paul Ryan, the polls turned in her favor and she pulled off an upset victory in a Republican district N.Y.-26 is the Buffalo congressional seat once held by Jack Kemp . Although some Republicans concede that the Medicare attacks did hurt Republican Jane Corwin, all Republicans point to the fact that a Tea Party candidate got 9 percent of the vote as being a key factor in Hochul s victory. Now the question is, can Democrats keep the Medicare train going and use stanley isolierkanne it over the next 18 months to try to win back the House Or will Democrats soon find themselves on the defensive because they haven t outlined a plan of their own We ll get into all of this with our two guests on Sunday.For their part, Republicans tried to turn the stanley cup page, introducing their plan to spur the economy and job creation. Now more than ever, ou stanley cup r nation needs small businesses and entrepreneurs to get people back to work, said House Republican Leader Rep. Eric Cantor. Cantor said the Republican proposal shows a real contract wit