republicans on the hill saying, we need entitlement reform. why isn t the president doing more on entitlement reform. here are some medicare cuts, and republicans and democratic senators say, no, no, don t do this? you re right, there are hypocrites in both parties. they talk the talk on entitlement reform and they don t deliver, the president could have had permanent entitlement reform proposals, over time, like we did with social security in the 80s, extending the age at which you qualify for medicare from 65 to 67. that would be a permanent fix. the president always avoided those permanent reforms, he s gone for quick fixes, like cutting medicare advantage, which is a program he doesn t like, because it s private sector medicine managing it. help me understand, social security future benefit cuts had been on the table they re not now. they re not going to be in there now. the white house says that s because the president put those painful cuts on the table.
kim, are you as pessimistic as steve when has president obama ever put any serious entitlement reform on the table? this is the ultimate unicorn. it doesn t exist. kim, are you as pass mystic as r as our two friends here? the president already came out and said more revenue, an instant deal killer. the question is whether he ll be able to move on some of his own entitlement reform proposals. still ahead, it s been almost three weeks since the affordable care act s health care exchanges went live. after a very rocky rollout, have things gotten any better and who should take responsibility for the mess? n t relieve all your symptoms. new alka seltzer plus-d relieves more sinus symptoms than any other behind the counter liquid gel. oh what a relief it is.
from members of his own party saying look this is the same kind of platform that you ran off as a vice presidental candidate and we. look i think there is very short sighted criticism directed at paul ryan right now suggesting that this isn t a real serious budget or the budget doesn t go quite far enough. i haven t heard entitlement reform proposals from many of the people criticizing paul ryan and i think if you go back and look at the history of what happened with the ryan budget, and the fact that ryan had to challenge his own party, the institutions of his own party, including the national republican congressional committee, which in 2010, just three years ago was advising people not to talk about entitlement reform, i think the fact that it s now a center piece of republicans and where they are trying to take the party in the future is quite a credit to paul ryan. jon: coming up in a little less than an hour you have the speakers who were both candidates the last time around on
distinction on governor romney s policy toward china for example and currency ma nip lakes. when you look at manipulation. governor romney budgetpy s support for entitlement reform is different in nature than governor bush s entitlement reform proposals. the most important thing is not the differences is between what governor romney would do and how president bush approaches the job. there are major differences between what governor romney would do and what president obama is doing and that is really the focus of this election and where it should be contribution those are pretty significant differences when it comes to entitlement reform and saving medicare and social security for future generation. stopping the tax increases from hitting small business owners who traditionally provide two thirds of the new jobs in our economy and are going to get hammered under president obama s proposed tax increases and repealing the healthcare bill which has job killing mandate and a job killing
scale into the middle and repeal the tax cuts in their entirety which he is not willing to advocate for because that would be unpopular. megyn: the other side is spending and entitlement reform. the president and the white house said we tried on that. we submitted a plan to congress saying why don t we make certain cuts to med i care and keep the tax cut going. is that fair? does the president have a point? he offered a budget that spent more. he says behind closed doors he s offering entitlement reform proposals but we have never seen them in the light of day. if you wanted to break the logjam on this issue if the president would endorse specific entitlement savings republicans would pass those the next day. megyn: he couples them with a tax hike that requires some compromise. he couples them with a tax