and running against paul ryan s plan is central to the democrat s campaign. so you ve got the makings of a battle royale. especially in swing states like iowa. which is where congressman ryan was today. and so was president obama. i know congressman ryan. he s a good man. he s a family man. he is an articulate he is an articulate spokesman for governor romney s vision. but the problem is that vision is one i fundamentally disagree with. president obama alluded to in iowa, his campaign is pell spelling out in florida. florida is ground zero in the medicare fight. today the obama 2012 forces rolled out an ad tying mitt romney to paul ryan s plan. florida, we have a very large elderly population. medicare is a boon for senior citizens who without that would choose between food and going to a doctor. those kinds of cuts are going to be incredibly painful to the working class person because we re the ones who will pay for it. romney-rye yap, the ad goes on to say, en
voice. more with angela yrrye sunda y on c-span. wassnbc s chris matthews the featured speaker at gerald r. ford years journalism awards. he spoke about his relationship with tip o neill. and talked about some of the mistakes made by president obama and mitt romney. this is 40 minutes. ford president said, i have a lot of adversaries but no enemies i can remember. one of four political adversaries was tip o neill, a liberal democrat. despite their political differences, tip o neill and ford were friends. the gerald r. ford presidential foundation will be honoring that foriendship tonight. tip o neill was speaker of the house until 1987. he hired our luncheon speaker to be his press secretary. chris matthews was born in philadelphia and graduated from the college of holy cross. he served in the peace corps from 1968-1970. after coming to washington, chris matthews worked as a u.s. capitol policeman before working for democratic members of congress and as a speechwriter fo
instead of asking if a deal is appropriate for everyone involved and do in the gut check of wondering whether you would cringe and doing the gut check of wondering whether you would cringe if the details were laid out on the front page of the paper, they seem to view their ideas more narrowly. if you can argue it is profitable and not illegal, go for it. who cares if it is immoral or wrong or hurt people. i have an old new yorker cartoon that sums this up. in it are a group of executives seated in a boardroom. the man at the head of the table is saying, it is not a lie if it makes us money. lies that made some people a lot of money were a crucial element of the credit crisis. mortgage brokers selling bonds to customers who did not understand them. firms peddling securities to clients who were not told of their fall to structures. ratings agencies slept in slapping high grades. very few of these participants have been held accountable. indeed, these players continue to a
tax and spending cuts. whoever is the next president, will they have to adopt something like that next year to solve this problem? i think so. that would be the wisest course politically. the problem is when you look at samson-bowles simspon-bowls, which came out with the same basic approach. you have to look at the long term. you have to look at social security. and on tax reform to, you have to broaden the base and lower the rates. that was the key and our commission to getting agreement. how low could you go on the rate that would attract republicans. i can bring that to my people and say that we are improving the tax code, but so long as we are doing tax and adamant reform as well to bring down the long- term spending, but the key is filling inthose details. we lowered the top rate to 28% and then we had a 16% rate. we had specific proposals about how you would broaden the base to do that. that gets lost over. glossed over. we use some of that for deficit reduction.
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