budget actually does is, one, it changes medicare dramatically. the first iteration of the paul ryan budget in 2010, i believe, essentially limited medicare, what most everybody in medicare is in now completely and it moved it to a vouter prach. you get private insurance and the way they were going to save money is get that. but the check was going to grow at a very slow rate. a year later, they were too big on that. they ended up with the new thing which mitt romney also supports. you can choose medicare, the normal one, in addition to the normal ones. the check gross somewhat less slowly but you re trying to transition it over to a private system. the over thing it does is a tax reform. it increases defense spending in certain ways. what s also important and the thing that is really fundamentally raddic cal.
there are millions of people on medicate and medicare. we re not chosening between these massively world views. ezra. i think what s going to happen for mitt romney and paul ryane because they got this tax plan is why are you making these very difficult cuts to medicare, which as avik points out have real implications. why are you malking them. that is the thing they can t budget. well, maybe you can make this argument. but you can t say we the situation is so tarmtd from 45 yrss and under pa h. at the same time we can give trillions of door lours and
why the bush years went so wrong, the basic period they have settled on is massive cuts to social insurance programs. we can t say on the one hand the ryan budget is this basically dangerous political toxic document that i ve voted for at multiple times, but on the other hand they show they don t want to take the heat for it. romney has modified the cuts. what hee is done is directly dran conian cuts to medicare, housing security, he ll instead blocker it to the united states. what republicans have been willing to vote is the massive safety net for the poor and it s
there have been ads running against the ryan plan. heidi hide camp is basically is in the game because she s been hammering her republican opponent who is also a sitting house member rick burg for voting for the ryan plan. and she s in the game in a so-called red state simply because of one issue, medicare. that s the other aspect of this pick is that it gives some clarity to the debate but it gives charity all the way down the ballot. this is one of those rare occasions that what the house candidates are going to be talking about, both democrats and republicans, what the senate campaigns are going to be talking about, all of it is the exact same thing. there s no sort of distancing yourself from your presidential candidate. much, much harder now. to me what it also reaffirms is the increasingly, for lack of a more descriptive nature,
salivating over portman in the way they with with ryan. to emphasize rachel s point, the way the campaign was set up, they were going after romney the summer and then they wanted to figure out how to tie romney to the house republicans and the ryan plan in the fall. well, romney did it for him by picking ryan. there are a lot of republican strategist this morning who have clients, are helping clients to try to get re-elected in house races and senate races who are very nervous this morning. they re the one group of folks not very happy. they ve been trying to come up with ways to distance themselves from the ryan budget. i look at two senate races, i would think and point a lot of folks to go watch the senate races over the last couple of weeks. there s sort of the petri dish on medicare.