resurrected the old newt gingrich plan to kill medicare by privatizing it and replacing it with vouchers. he also called for privatizing social security. that was 2008. in 2010, paul ryan tried again. a new version of his road map, and a splashy new website to launch it. guess what was still in the plan? a medicare overhaul that the wall street journal of all papers accused of ending medicare as we know it. privatizing medicare, replacing it with vouchers. that became an effective weapon for democrats, at least the ones who chose to wield it in the 2010 elections. in april of last year, ryan changed the title of the plan, he dumped the road map name and went with something maybe a little slower. this is not a road map but a path to prosperity. it was only in this brand new version, the 2011 version of the plan, that he finally dropped the idea of privatizing social security. he kept the partial privatization of medicare. he said to ryan lizza of the new yorker he had to compromise.
gingrich plan to kill medicare by privatizing it and replacing it with vouchers. he also called for privatizing social security. that was 2008. in 2010, paul ryan tried again. a new version of his road map, and a splashy new website to launch it. guess what was still in the plan? a medicare overhaul that the wall street journal of all papers accused of ending medicare as we know it. privatizing medicare, replacing it with vouchers. that, of course, became an effective political weapon for democrats, at least the ones who chose to wield it in the 2010 midterm election. in april of last year, ryan changed the title of the plan, he dumped the road map name and went with something maybe a little slower. this is not a road map but a path to prosperity. it was only in this brand new version, the 2011 version of the plan, that he finally dropped the idea of privatizing social security. he kept the partial privatization of medicare. he said to ryan lizza of the new yorker he had to compromise.
they had a terrible summer. i m not saying they believe the wheels were coming off and the axel was dragging, but they had a coughing engine. so they wanted a game changer. they have gotten that game changer. it is a risk for romney, but a risk he apparently felt he had to take. which before this vice presidential nominee, romney s target was obama s failures. now, the target at least for the time being, and i think it will carry through convention time, is what about this ryan that he picked? what does it tell us? it s also indicative when he announced the selection of ryan, romney was all for ryan. i m for him. he s my guy. he and i are together. but the time he got to the 60 minutes appearance, 48 hours or less afterward, he had changed once again. i would submit rightly or wrongly, this plays into the perception that romney goes this way and that way, that he s a flip-flopper. another thing about the ticket that hasn t been talked about much. i think he picked ryan partly
then he got appointed to the senate, poor guy, just in time to be expected to vote for the paul ryan plan again, which he did. now that dean heller is running for re-election in the senate, he s running away from the paul ryan plan as fast as he can. republican senator scott brown is trying to get reelected in massachusetts. tough territory for him. look at this oped he wrote back in may. why i don t back paul ryan s medicare plan. thank you, republican senator scott brown. the massachusetts democratic party is out today with an attack ad against scott brown nevertheless linking him to paul ryan. the republican party in montana is running an ad in their state touting the fact their republican senate nominee voted against the paul ryan plan because they said paul ryan s plan, quote, could harm the medicare program so many of montana s seniors rely on. that s the republican party of montana running that ad. these are republicans running against paul ryan. bragging that they didn t vote f
social security. the country not only said no to that, the country threw up a little bit in their mouth as they said no to it. the more bush talked about privatizing social security, the less popular it got. then republicans paid for it at the polls. well, that was under way, it was congressman paul ryan who was pushing an even more radical version of social security privatization. his personal savings guarantee and prosperity act of 2005 was an even more radical version of bush s privatization of social security. privatizing social security went nowhere in the 90s. exkid me, in the mid 2000s. but paul ryan managed to keep his seat in e house through the great republican congressional purges that followed this era in 2006 and 2008. paul ryan also kept the idea of privatizing social security and medicare alive. in 2008, with his road map for america s future, paul ryan resurrected the old newt gingrich plan to kill medicare