family ran into adversity and his father unfortunately passed away. but he s still perpetuating the lie about the $716 billion. he s perpetuating the lie about the plant. he s passing himself off as a guy in the middle of the country in home spun janesville. one of the people from janesville said, people must know he lied about the plant. he ll go out and tell the red-meat conservatives exactly what they want to hear. he s their new hero. the base calculation was that they could neutralize the fact the only thing he is known for nationally is being the kill medicare guy. we have a young guy, energetic. he can spin the story better than anybody else. he s a great performer, a political lifer. he s got great connections. we have to deal with the kill medicare thing. here s the problem, so he gets up there and he and mitt romney
and coburn. but here is the budgeteer and he walked away from the budget deal. watch his phrasing. he didn t say that. his phrasing about the plant gets him past any perjury charge. it s very carefully lawyerly written stuff and the stuff he says about simpson bowles is lawyerly written. if the obama campaign has to get into a fight about when the plant closed or what was it about simpson bowles about what you didn t like it will be hard to fight him. the fight they have to win is the medicare fight. that s the fight. he is tapping in to gen-x resentment and skepticism about government. that s what he is doing there. i wonder whether a goody two shoes pays a higher price when he is caught lying. his answer will be i would not go for a tax revenue
economy, you talk about it as if things haven t worked out in the auto industry since the bailout is a surprise, governor. it didn t in wisconsin and ultimately did in places like michigan and elsewhere, but it could have come back more effectively and sooner had they taken the advice of mitt romney early on and done a managed bankruptcy instead of spending all those dollars of taxpayer money. we wasted a lot of money. we did that in many other yare yeas of the federal government. it s one of many more indictments of the president. was there private sector credit available to save the auto industry? a managed bankruptcy would have been very effective. that s where they headed after several missteps along the way. it was not barack obama s economic policies that closed that gm plant. that plant was closed in december of 2008. it s in the washington post right now, governor walker. it had nothing to do with barack
going to let our campaign be dictate the by fact checkers. is the president right jt did paul ryan make things up or at least extend the truth a little bit? listen, president obama came to my state, the commonwealth of virginia to tell us we didn t let me go that gm plant. let me tell you what the president said when he went to janesville, wisconsin back in 2008. he said, as president i will lead the effort to retool these plants. he went to that plant in february of 08 and october of 08. what he told them, they knew the plant was going to be closing and was having problems. he said, as president, i m going to lead and i m going to do this. like so many of the other plants around this country that have closed, that plant closed, and is not open now. there aren t job there s now, because the president has failed. just like he failed to create all the green jobs, where solyndra is empty and the company, fisker, said would have
bit to the other side. he says an act of gentlemanly concession. and the president was handed a difficult situation. and he clobbers him for 20 minutes. let s get away from nuance. here s ryan blaming president obama for a gm plant in his hometown of janesville that closed. but the plant closed under president bush. he must have known that when he said these words tonight. let s take a look. my home state voted for president obama. when he talked about change, many people liked the sound of it, especially in janesville where we were able to lose a major factory. a lot of guys i went to high school with worked at this gm plant. right there at that plant, candidate obama said if our government is there to support you this plant be here for