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paul ryan is firing back in a speech before the economic club of chicago blasting president obama s handling of the issue so far. may be clever politics, but it s terrible economics. those committed to the mind set of shared scarce city are telling future generations, sorry, you re going to have to make due with much less. your taxes will go up because washington can t get government spending down. if we surrender more control of our economy over to a governing class, then we are choosing shared scarcity over renewed prosperity. that s the real class warfare that threatens us. a class of governing elites picking winners and losers and determining our destinies for us. nancy pelosi also weighing into the debate yesterday suggesting the cnbc s larry kudlow that no program should be immune to deficit cuts. we must reduce the deficit. we must put everything on the table.
meanwhile overseas, the french are steaming over how strauss-kahn has been treated here in the united states. outraged over this image of strauss-kahn being parade in handcuffs in front of the world press. in frances, a law makes it a crime to publish photos of an identifiable person in handcuffs who has not yet been convicted. former french justice minister whose name is on that law say the pictures are a brutality, violence, incredible cruelty and i m happy we don t have the same judiciary system. well, after announcing his candidacy, newt gingrich is fending off attacks from fellow republicans. he criticized paul ryan s plan to overhaul medicare as too radical. i don t think right wing social engineering is anymore desirable than left wing social engineering.
this is a big deal. he s done. he didn t have a big chance from the beginning, but now it s over. calling him radical and right wing social engineering is deadly. that was the influential conservative columnist. seeking to down play the controversy, a spokesman for gingrich yesterday issued this statement. there is little daylight between ryan and gingrich, but look how it gets reported. newt would fully support ryan if it were not com pulse area. we need to design a better system that people will voluntarily move to. that is a major difference in design but not substance. gingrich also released a short video saying he is completely opposed to the individual mandate. on meet the press he said he supported a variation. mean while the deficit debate is taken to the airways as both sides make the case that their plan to fix the nation s finances is the right one in the wake of harsh dwmic criticism,
i don t think imposing radical change from the right or the left is a very good way for a free society to operate. that was gingrich on sunday. yesterday on the laura ingram radio show, congressman ryan responded to gingrich defending his medicare proposal. who allies like that, who needs the left? look, what s happening is medicare is going broke and we re saying if it we put a plan like this in place, you don t have to change the benefits for anybody-that s hardly radical. conservative pundits arguing his attack on ryan s plan was an unforgivable mistake that could cost him any shot he may have had at the nomination. i m not going to justify this, i m not going explain this. the attack on paul ryan, the support for an individual mandate in health care? folk, don t ask knee explain this. there is no explanation.