mitt romney has cast his new running mate paul ryan. there s much in ryan s record that undercuts his image as a deficit cutter including his vocal support for the bailout program known as the t.a.r.p. according to the center on budget and policy priorities. on wednesday house speaker john boehner was supposed to defend somewhat inartfully ryan s support for the bailout on fox news. he s a practical conservative. he s got a very conservative voting record but he s not a knuckle dragger, right? he understand that t.a.r.p., while none of us wanted to do it, if we were going to save our economy and save the world economy, it had to happen. i just want to say i m personally offended on behalf of people, the members of john
who obama is. he s still to be defined. if you look at national review this week he gets to be all things to all people. the deficit cutter and the person who invests in solyndr solyndra. the person that wants to cut back and be responsible. i understand what they are trying to do. it s smart when it comes to romney. i have to agree with charles. the photograph with david axelrod was bizarre. like a trial balloon. if they said who wants to go to massachusetts and give a speech to go against romney record and see how it goes, nobody raises their hand. i ll do it. it will be forgotten by noon tomorrow. david axelrod s mistake was to go to massachusetts, not only go to massachusetts but go to boston where the romney campaign headquartered. you have ringers available to go out and boo them.
supply side economics and the belief that the bush administration was not doing enough to increase the deficit in the name of supply side economics. he opposed the bowles-simpson deficit deal, opposed the gang of six deficit deal. he s shown no inclination to support any compromise on these thing. this idea of him as the great compromiser, the great deficit cutter, again, it s just not connected in any way to anything he s done. new york magazine s jonathan chait. thank you for your time. read that article and make laminated cards with your favorite quotes. a british comedian releases a searing report about rupert murdoch s media. new information that mitt romney attended a surprise meeting in new york city. we ll tell you with whom, after the break.
measures republicans are proposing. a whether or not how construct allows him to do two things at the same time. by energizing his base, standing up and fighting republicans on proposals, but also trying to appear reasonable to the middle. president obama is not in as strong a position as clinton was because he doesn t have as much credibility as a deficit cutter. but to the extent they re talking about the deficit, back-to-back town halls, some would say wait, they re on the republicans terms in terms of agenda setting. i believe in our most recent0 poll, independents said deficit wasn t their top issues, jobs was. jobs, jobs, jobs. but if this is republican turf, how come you get 17%, 18% approval for the democratic positions here? this isn t playing out in that shorthand back of the envelope kind of way because all voters, including a majority of republicans, want to see taxes go up on those making $250,000
ok? so they put some ideas out there. they re not going to do anything about it. i m with you all the way. however, supposing the president resurrects the idea that he is a deficit cutter. and in his state of the union message which will be very important in january of next year, supposing he resurrects some of the ideas put forward by this commission. this is not out of the question. you know what, stuart? just a couple of days ago or on 60 minutes a couple of days ago, you had ben bernanke echoing some of the things that the commission said like let s close up some of the loopholes and let s lower taxes. look, the commission, i think, whatever you say, gretchen, came up with some good ideas. the ideas were good. nothing is happening in the immediate future but don t discount the president becoming the deficit cutter in the state of the union message and he may do it. senator kent conrad is calling for a presidential summit on the deficit. there you go. what s coming