budget. what we should do is we should find a way to capitate medicare and you ll have deval patrick on your program later. they are five years ahead of us and governor romney s plan is five years ahead of president obama s plan. we should restrain the growth of social security. you do have to do that and can do that by taking the cap off the benefits and making money available and so forth. we do need to cut defense, and there are republicans who quietly will admit them and one who is not so quietly admitting it is the secretary of defense under george bush who is now the sent of defense under barack obama, and we do also need to deal with entitlements. we can do these things, but both parties are going to have to take a hit, not the republicans doing everything for the corporations which is all they care about. ryan s plan is loonsy. us a point out, it doesn t really save any money. just takes money away from the ordinary middle class people and gives it to the big corporations whi
right. the difference between obama s cuts and the republican cuts is the republican cuts come out of senior citizens pockets. the president s cuts came out of providers and insurance companies. he actually made and the cbo agrees with this. he the president made medicare more sustainable because of health care reform. these guys hate medicare. they hate the welfare state. they hate social security. they hate anything that helps ordinary people. they are in the pay of corporations. that s who paid for their campaigns, and, of course, that s whose tune they are going to dance to. finally i want to get your sense what have you would like to see from the president tomorrow night when he lays this out because it seems like it s going to be an opportunity to set the agenda and move it off the conversation about the ryan budget. what we should do is we should find a way to capitate medicare and you ll have deval patrick on your program later. they are five years ahead of us and
because the white house always knew that the republicans would never agree to the white house tax revenue proposals and in a world where nothing is agreed to until everything is agreed to, the white house knew nothing was going to be agreed to. in a world where nothing is agreed to until everything is agreed to, the white house actually has agreed to nothing, not one penny of spending cuts, not one. still, the white house is clever enough to leak that the notion, the notion that it was willing to entertain spending cuts, that president obama was willing to bend over backwards in the republican direction and think about spending cuts in medicare, in social security, those ideas horrified some democrats in congress and many obama supporters in the blogosphere, but just today, mitch mcconnell has finally begun to catch up with the president s superior