let s take a look at stories making news later today, in the next hour in washington. we are expecting wisconsin republican and house budget committee chairman paul ryan to further discuss the president s proposed debt reduction plan. yesterday, he slammed it as partisan rhetoric this afternoon at 5 eastern in columbus, ohio, the first lady and jill biden honor military families at a community event. and the dodgers baseball team holds a 4 p.m. local time news conference to highlight new security initiatives after that march 31st beating of a paramedic outside of dodger stadium. > from the pog to capitol hill to u.s. military families around the world there is a lot of concern that president obama doesn t have a lot of specifics on his proposed defense cuts. let ask the president s numbers
so please, please tell us there s some middle ground here. the middle ground is raise taxes? not really. i think the american people do believe that this government overspends and they are absolutely correct on that. and just to say one thing, paul line rhine and that house budget they presented, so thoughtful, so long-term, so fundamental in dealing with the crisis we face, it never reduces medicare, medicaid or social security in any one single year. but we are with surging the surging increases in those programs do need to be contained. if we do that we can keep them had sound and healthy for generations to come. a lot of people are very admiring of mr. ryan s plan about medicare and medicaid, but nothing in there about revenue raising, like raising taxes on the rich. i mean, why can t those bush tax cuts expire for those making over $250,000 a year? why not? well, we are taxed enough.
used to be, we used to have marginal rates in the 90s during roosevelt, eisenhower, in the 80s, we re down to 39. you are driving the government to bankruptcy and balancing the budget on the backs of the poor and that s the choice i have. how do you justify that? we had more job creation during president clinton s era than we had over 4-1 over george w. bush when he was cutting the tax rates. you re wrong on the economics of history. but the question i want to ask you right now relates to the tax code. you want to simply fit. right? yes. you say you want to bring rates down to 25%. you re going to eliminate all the tax loopholes. we want to broaden the base and lower the rates. i m with you 100%. which loopholes are you eliminatin eliminating? are you embracing the bowles-simpson plan? there were several provisions, a dozen plus of the simpson bowles plan that is in the house budget plan. what we re setting is the framework and the committees of jurisdiction would have to co
battle. ç walker sees himself as a leader. the national republican party clearly is trying to make him into a national republican leader here. but are you still leading if there s nobody behind you? not only is this fight not catching on nationwide, but the strategy in the state of wisconsin is failing. when the governor got pranked with that fake phone call, he gave away the strategy he was going to use to try to trick state democrats into coming back into the state so that they could get a quorum to pass his union-stripping bill. he gave away the trick. he told it to a guy he thought was a big donor, and now the democrats know what that strategy is, so they will not be tricked. the senate republicans in wisconsin also had a plan to all but force the democrats to come back to the state. they were going to bring up a voter i.d. bill, a bill that would make it harder to register to vote. it would hurt democratic chances not only in the next election but in every election to come. that
the house when back in 2009 he all but shoved gm off the ledge while it was teetering, asking at the time, does anybody ç really believe that politicians and bureaucrats in washington can successfully steer a multinational corporation to economic viability? thank god we didn t listen to republican senator jim demint of south carolina when he complained the very next day now the government has forced taxpayers to buy these companies without any plausible plan for profitability. does anyone think the same government that plans to double the national debt in five years will turn gm around in the same time? five years, senator demint? five years? try 20 months. not only were all of those jobs saved, but there s, you know, profit. some of those anti-oracles who blew it about gm are now putting forth a republican budget plan. it calls for urgent massive budget cuts because they say the