proposals, compared to other familiar conservative policies, is he deserving of the credit for not being that far right? i don t think he is. i think for me, the current benchmark for what i would consider a really dangerously radical proposal to downsize the government is the paul ryan budget. what paul ryan proposed that came out of the house budget committee. you may recall there was a lot of controversy over it and there should have been a lot of controversy over it. he was talking about draconian cuts, a lot of them would have gone in medicare, you would have ended up in a situation where you have senior citizens who can t pay medical bills. all sorts of problems like that. not just for the poor but middle class. if you look dollar for dollar and romney proposed a spending cap and look at the number of dollars he wants to take out of the federal budget, he wants to take more money out of the budget than paul ryan did. now he hasn t said exactly how he would do it but one way or
along, not only does he seem to think that is okay, he wants to make that imbalance worse. he put a tax proposal that would give benefits to the wealthy and depending how you calculate it and implements it you could see some poor people who after this year would see their taxes go up in the romney tax plan. mr. romney often gets credit for not being as far to the right as the rest of the republican field. i know you have been digging into his overall economic plan, his overall tax plan. compared to the bush tax cut proposals, compared to other familiar conservative policies, is he deserving of the credit for not being that far right? i don t think he is. i think for me, the current benchmark for what i would consider a really dangerously radical proposal to downsize the government is the paul ryan budget. what paul ryan proposed that
made a lot of money for investors and deserves to be well-compensated for that. but right now in america we have a tax code that inexplicably lets people like mitt romney get away with paying lower tax rates than secretarys and people and middle class people. here we have mitt romney coming along, not only does he seem to think that is okay, he wants to make thatimbalance worse. he put a tax proposal that would give benefits to the wealthy and depending how you calculate it and implements it you could see some poor people who after this year would see their taxes go up in the romney tax plan. mr. romney often gets credit for not being as far to the right as the rest of the republican field. i know you have been digging into his overall economic plan, his overall tax plan. compared to the bush tax cut proposals, compared to other familiar conservative policies, is he deserving of the credit
votes saying why should we stop? pass the farthest right bill through the house, tram through the house, go to the senate, get amended go into conference committee and they will be starting on the house side with the most extreme conservative position possible. i think what we are seeing is republicans really understand negotiation 101 and the obama administration either doesn t understand negotiation 101 or is actually ideologically with some of the more hard-core conservative policies and ideologies of the tea party that is controlling the house of representatives. let me build on david s point a little bit and give this question to you, ryan. had had is the first time the president has come out in public and said this is where i stand. he didn t say that in the beginning where he like if he had come out and gave a big speech, i m giving away $40 billion in cuts. now the republicans have to come to me it would have been very public, right? then when the republicans didn t come to
republicans nerves, not the lefty nerves. this is about sticking it to them. this is about standing up for american who have been outsourced by conservative policies. do not go home, harry. don t go home. you ll get plenty of media coverage. you don t have to go home. forget about all the town hall meetings in nevada. do the right çthing. do what the republicans would do if the roles were reversed. they d kick some ass, that s what they do. they wouldn t take no for an answer. that s what you need to do. senator reid, i think this is your wake-up call. and there is going to be a political component to all of this. i m saying it tonight. that these 4 million americans, if they don t get help, the 99ers, don t count on them voting for the democrats in november. these folks could swing the election. and as crass as it might sound, there s a political component to everything in washington.