power. they ve run out of ideas. their moment came and went. fear and division is all they ve got left. conservative opinion pages loved it. the national review calls ryan the happy warrior. the wall street journal heralds the ryan difference and the washington post announces, ryan sochools obama. among the confetti, there remains one glaring problem. in taking on the president, ryan forgot to back his arguments up on fact. here he is on medicare. an obligation we have to our parents and grandparents is being sacrificed all to pay for a new entitlement we didn t even ask for. the greatest threat to medicare is obama care, and we re going to stop it. ryan never mentioned that his own plan cuts medicare by capping spending and forcing seniors to dig deeper into their own pockets to pay their bills. then there was the claim that the president is an out of control spender, driving up the debt. he created a new bipartisan debt commission. they came back with an urgen
power. they ve run out of ideas. their moment came and went. fear and division is all they ve got left. conservative opinion pages loved it. the national review calls ryan the happy warrior. the wall street journal heralds the ryan difference and the washington post announces, ryan sochools obama. among the confetti, there remains one glaring problem. in taking on the president, ryan forgot to back his arguments up on fact. here he is on medicare. an obligation we have to our parents and grandparents is being sacrificed all to pay for a new entitlement we didn t even ask for. the greatest threat to medicare is obama care, and we re going to stop it. ryan never mentioned that his own plan cuts medicare by capping spending and forcing seniors to dig deeper into their own pockets to pay their bills. then there was the claim that the president is an out of control spender, driving up the debt. he created a new bipartisan debt commission. they came back with an urgen
good morning, it is thursday, july 21st, 2011. yes, 217 is the majority right now that you would need to pass something in the house because there are two vacancies. anthony weiner and dean heller. to my first reads of the morning. we re in the same place we were three months ago. nobody has a debt plan that can get passed in the republican-controlled house. and there s more and more talk on the hill that the only way for house republicans to eventually support any deal is for them to watch the markets actually reacting well take a dive. you can count the tracks this process is working on by the number of meetings scheduled, announced and unannounced. just yesterday, for instance, democratic leaders met with the president at the white house. then it was house republican leaders at the white house. then it was pelosi,boehner and canter. this isn t exactly high-speed rail. right now there are multiple trains heading toward the station. some of them may continue up to the
three months ago. nobody has a debt plan that can get passed in the republican-controlled house. and there s more and more talk on the hill that the only way for house republicans to eventually support any deal is for them to watch the markets actually reacting well take a dive. you can count the tracks this process is working on by the number of meetings scheduled, announced and unannounced. just yesterday, for instance, democratic leaders met with the president at the white house. then it was house republican leaders at the white house. then it was pelosi,boehner and canter. this isn t exactly high-speed rail. right now there are multiple trains heading toward the station. some of them may continue up to the last moment because we need to be sure that that failsafe option is there even as we pursue aggressively the possibility of doing something bigger. look, here s where things stand. there are three different big deals out there. number one is what the president and