really sets the table for tuesday, last night s vice presidential debate, which depending on who you ask is either pulling president obama s case for re-election off the critical list or vindicated mitt romney s choice as paul ryan as running mate. depends what side of the political aisle you stand on. keeping them honest, each debater had moments that didn t quite stand up to closer scrutiny. first, paul ryan on the stimulus, which vice president biden called him on. they said that right now if we just passed the stimulus, the economy would grow at 4%. it s growing at 1.3. i love my friend here. i m not allowed to show letters but go on our website, he sent me two letters saying by the way, can you send me some stimulus money for companies here in the state of wisconsin. we sent millions of dollars. you know why you did ask for stimulus money, correct? sure he did. on two occasions we advocated for constituents who were applying for grants. that s what we do. we
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 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 citizenses w s who without that 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. keeping them honest, though, romney and ryan are not totally on the same pange when it comes to medicare as that ad suggests. the ryan plan would not affect americans who are 55 and over. it would be phased in over time. anyone young worry see a totally different medicare when they retire. seniors would
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 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 citizenses w s who without that 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. keeping them honest though, romney and ryan are not totally on the same pange when it comes to medicare as that ad suggests. the ryan plan would not affect americans who are 55 and over. it would be phased in over time. anyone young worry see a totally different medicare when they retire. seniors would get government money to buy private insurance. in other words, you
ryan who entered the house in 1999 has risen quickly through republican ranks becoming chairman of the powerful house budget committee last year. he began his career as an aide to then jack kemp. ryan surged to the front of the v.p. pack in recent weeks on the strength of his popularity among grassroots conservatives. his esteemed right wing activists as a visionary and is considered an intellectual leader for the proposed budget. safety net programs like food stachs, cut hup dretds of billions of dollars and end medicare as we know it. the choice of ryan then would seem to be an attempt to bolster romney s standing among conservatives who have remaining skeptical of his credentials even at this late date. the announcement comes just two days after the wall street journal urged romney in an editorial to pick ryan to call him, the candidate that best exemplar fi fies the nation. he voted for the iraq war and there s much in ryan s record that contradicts his image as a refor
extreme weather. severe weather slamming the northeast. terrifying twister reported on lild. moreen othe president of destruction straight ahead on this big day on fox & friends which begins right now. that s right. we start with a fox news alert, good saturday morning, everybody. a busy day, peter johnson jr. in for. and peter in for alisyn. that s a tad ironic that late on a friday night you hear a massive announcement like this that the romney campaign has still not made official. but check out the web site this morning. it s romney ryan.com and under that the romney campaign says come meet america s come back team. and about 9:00 this morning at norfolk, virginia, the announcement will be made officially by the romney campaign and all indications are that it appears to be representative paul ryan of janesville, wisconsin, a seven-term republic congressman who has catapulted in fame over the last two or three years based upon his opposition to obama care and putting fo