t from Democrats, who charge it would "end Medicare as we know it." The Senate rejected it in a vote last week, but also unanimously struck down an alternative plan proposed by President Obama.  Democrats said they wanted to leave it off the table while Vice President Biden leads a bipartisan group of senators to come up with a new budget that would include cuts in spending that would satisfy lawmakers who don't want to increase the nation's borrowing limit without reducing government's size. "The one thing we can't do is nothing," McConnell said. "The president, to his credit, is at the table. ... We're going to negotiate the contours of the plan in these negotiations. I'm personally very comfortable with the way Paul Ryan would structure it in the out years, but we have a Democratic president. We're going to have to negotiate with him on the terms of changing Medicare so we can save Medicare." Appearing on the same program, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., called on Republicans to abandon the House Medicare plan, noting an analysis by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office that says it would require seniors to shoulder an increasingly large share of their health care costs. Schumer said there are only three options -- doing nothing, the Ryan plan or a Democratic vision that preserves benefits and changes "delivery systems," but does "not let providers" he continued."We're not going anywhere. The cameras may leave, the spotlight may shift, but we will be with you every step of the way until Joplin is restored, until this community is back on its feet.  The president spoke following remarks by ministers and laymen heavily doused with scripture and praise for Jesus. Many in the town have not had much more to rely on but faith and federal aid after a near mile-wide tornado last week killed at least 139 people and took out 2,000 buildings in its destructive wake. The bereaved survivors are trying now to recover from the worst tornado in decades, in what has racked up to be the deadliest tornado season in more than 50 years. Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon and others greeted Obama on the tarmac before they set out for their walking tour of a destroyed neighborhood. Nixon said that he personally had been moved by the show of volunteers, hundreds who traveled across the nation to be there to pass out blankets, pillows, sunscreen, sandwiches and flashlights.  "You need a flashlight because it gets pretty dark here at night, especially when you're standing in the middle of the street, staring at the pile of match sticks that was once your home," Nixon told the memorial service audience. Nixon said Joplin's re-emergence will be the result of those living out the Biblical parable of the Good Samaritans. "One year from today, Joplin will look different, and more different still in two years, and three and five. And as the years pass, the moral of our story will be the same: Love thy neighbor," he said. As Air Force One swept over the landscape, flattened houses and stripped trees offered a massive swath of brown. Looking around the neighborhood from the ground, Obama eyed boarded-up windows, damaged business signs, fallen trees, piles of debris and homes spray-painted with "God Bless Everyone"  With dozens still missing, homes marked with an X meant they had been searched already for missing loved ones.&