wyoming a lot better. gregg: president obama getting a jab from a major mainstream magazine. we ll tell you why one newsweek pundit is telling him to hit the road and how he s using the president s own words to do it. martha: we ll take you live to a town hall with governor mitt romney and congressman paul ryan back together on the campaign trail today talking medicare with voters, and they are in really one of the states that has the toughest reputation whe it comes to voters and big questions. we ll be back with some of that.
for my generation. because by the way it won t be there for us when we retire. the good news is there are bipartisan solutions to this problem. it originated in the clinton commission in the late 90s, the by partisan commission to save medicare. it has bayh par bipartisan support in congress today. for younger americans when they become medicare eligible let them have a choice of guaranteed coverage options, including traditional medicare, that they can select from. just like i do as a member of congress, just like kelly and charlie and all of rest of us. we choose. i think the future to saving medicare is to let 50 million seniors decide how they get their healthcare instead of relegating that decision to 15 unelected bureaucrats. that is the american way to save these programs so that we can guarantee the promise of medicare for today s seniors. [applause] i won t go into all the things that we re proposing to
what energized the author here. and it s clear that the ryan pick has energized the republican base, there is no doubt. look at that rally you re about to show in new hampshire? there are a lot of people there. it s a swing state and they are very enthusiastic about mitt romney. now what s it doing with the independent voters that both sides are fighting for? it s a khra sha cliche to say it but we just don t know. we ll know later. martha: one of the biggest messages that they need to work on, one of their aims today would be to clarify the medicare issue. are you surprised at the way that is sorting itself out so far at least in this race? the romney first of all by picking paul ryan they knew that they would elevate medicare into a top issue in the campaign. they weren t surprised by that. they ve been very, very aggressive at turning it around on barack obama and saying, he, through obamacare is the one who would actually cut medicare benefits for current seniors. they ve been
villages. he brought his mom along to say that the obama administration is gutting medicare. the democrats say that is an out-and-out falls hooout and falsehood, because mr. ryan s budget would have cut that much from the program. they will criticize mr. obama s administration as to welfare reform. they will talk about the work requirements being taken out of the welfare reform authored by bill clinton, that to drive a wedge with spring voters and libertarian voters. the he bottom a government is building government big wer ne with new requirements and building some of the sort of nanny dependency state. this is a town hall meeting
is great. they don t want to attack his mom. the fact that his plan, they believe will hurt senior citizens and they re pushing back on congressman ryan s charge in fact the president cut over $700 billion medicare in his health care plan. what they are saying in the obama campaign, robert gibbses was on one of the sunday shows, mostly eliminating waste, didn t affect beneficiaries and extending the life of medicare. take a listen. if he wants to protect medicare for his mother then he should thank, first of all thank president obama for what he has done in the past few years to extend the life of the medicare trust fund. to help seniors with their prescription drug costs. to help seniors get preview preventative care. reporter: what the romney-ryan camp is saying though, extending the life of medicare for eight years as you hear robert gibbs touting is hardly enough even the president in his back in 2006, the audacity of hope was talking about