but you heard rooens reince priebus say that the president has blood on his hands in terms of medicare because of what he did in health care. so i think republicans should go on offense on medicare. because the president as part of obama care passed $700 billion in cuts in medicare. and romney wants to repeal obama care, including those cuts. wait, wait, wait. hold on. so at the top of the ticket, romney versus obama, there s only one of those guys who wants any cuts affecting current seniors. wait, wait, romney versus ryan, then. the ryan plan keeps the obama cuts for medicare. the ryan plan does so which one is it the ryan plan does mostly as a matter of preserving the cbo baseline. but the top of the ticket is mitt romney. mitt romney wants to repeal those cuts. and the fact is, rachel that s amazing. we re going to have romney versus ryan on medicare. if a republican were proposing $700 billion, had passed $700 billion in medicare cuts you d be savaging
and romney wants to repeal obama care, including those cuts. wait, wait, wait. hold on. hold on. so at the top of the ticket, romney versus obama, there s only one of those guys who wants any cuts affecting current seniors. wait, wait, romney versus ryan, then. the ryan plan keeps the obama cuts for medicare. the ryan plan does the romney mostly as a matter of just preserving the cbo baseline. but the top of the ticket is mitt romney, mitt romney wants to repeal those cuts, and the fact is, rachel that s amazing if a republican were proposing $700 billion, had passed $700 billion in medicare cuts you d be savaging that president for their brutality to seniors. but you re saying, wait that is barack obama. is romney running on the ryan plan or not? he s running on his own version of those ideas. let paul ryan is the second on the ticket.
thick. the trigger thing you mentioned is the perfect example of this. it s a threat. it s meant to be so distasteful as to force congress to compromise because if they don t compromise, defense will be arbitrarily cut at the $600 billion number. if you look at that threat and if they have to implement it, guess who has to decide the details of this? congress. future congress. now let me really blow your mind, that $600 billion cut is based off a fake number, cbo baseline, it s a projection of defense spending that no one ever thought was real. you could cut billions from the defense budget and the defense budget could still keep rising. it s comparing fake numbers against fake numbers so everybody can claim to cut the defense sit and budget. having a pageant that s about a play that is based on history in order to talk about what s going on in current events.
anyways. paul ryan did the same exact thick. the trigger thing you mentioned is the perfect example of this. it s a threat. it s meant to be so distasteful as to force congress to compromise because if they don t compromise, defense will be arbitrarily cut at the $600 billion number. if you look at that threat and if they have to implement it, guess who has to decide the details of this? congress. not even this congress, a future congress. now let me really blow your mind, that $600 billion cut is based off a fake number, cbo baseline, it s a projection of defense spending that no one ever thought was real. you could cut billions from the defense budget and the defense budget could still keep rising. it s comparing fake numbers against fake numbers so everybody can claim to cut the deficit and budget. having a pageant that s about a play that is based on history in order to talk about what s going on in current events. it s a designed to get our minds
senate democrats are playing with fire here, and it s hard to conclude that they re doing it for any other reason than politics. so i would urge our friends on the other side of the aisle this morning to rethink their position and join republicans in preventing default. alisyn: that was senator mitch mcconnell just speaking on the senate floor, and senate majority leader harry reid also just speaking saying he s willing to listen to republicans ideas and is urging them to compromise. let s find out what texas congressman ron paul has to say about all of this. he is a 2012 republican presidential candidate. good morning, congressman. good morning. alisyn: i want to start with the boehner bill which will cut $917 billion from the deficit over the next decade. will you vote for it today? no, i won t. because, you know, those cuts aren t real. it says that we re going to cut a trillion dollars out of next year s budget, but that s from the cbo baseline, so actually there are no cuts