In virginia this evening. the democrats are going after congressman ryan saying it would gut medicare. president obama s campaign already out with a new ad calling the proposal extreme. ed henry is our main man at the white house and there today and the democrats did not waste any time going after paul ryan. that s right. tweets and text messages and the new ad you mentioned all on the same talking point. paul ryan is radical. has an extreme agenda. will be in the words of the democrats a rubber stamp for the republicans on capitol hill. if you look at the statement from the campaign manager over in chicago it was blistering. the architect of the radical house budget ryan like romney proposed an additional $250,000 tax cut for millionaires. deep cuts in education. also ends medicare as we know it, shifting thousands of dollars in healthcare costs to seniors. as a member of congress ryan rubber stamped the reckless bush economic policies that
Christie of new jersey. a team that understands the economic stagnation our country has been facing and the urgency with which we need to change course. senator rubio tweeted a truly inspired choice. romney, ryan ticket will get the fiscal house in order and get americans working again. a rick santorum tweet now. fiscal sanity he said is back. and this from ryan s home state governor i have known paul throughout the years and just know him as a man who is probably the smartest person i know in politics yet he is one of the most humble people i know in politics. and from the blogosphere, iowa hawk fired off this stinger of a tweet. paul ryan represents obama s most horrifying nightmare, math. house minority leader nancy
Time but that is all it took. steve brown with more on the representative ryan from his hometown of janesville, wisconsin. these days the congressman is is all about his health. he is a gym rat. he is a gym rat. and that is largely because of his life experiences at age 6 he found his father dead from a heart attack at a young age. father, grandfather, great grandfather all died in their 50s. he is very much a gym rat. on fox news on his birthday he was offered a cake he replied thanks but no thanks. you don t have to eat it. i m not going to. you don t eat sweets? not really. i gave it up a long time ago. up until now i very much enjoyed your acquaintance, sir. appreciate it. for hobbies he bow hunts and catfish noodles.
Barehanded catfish fishing. he might not be working for governor romney as a running mate, huh? 98 when first ran for congress powers to be wanted him to run for state senate. scott fitzgerald was then a freshman sent down to talk ryan into running for senate. fitzgerald failed. after about a 15 minute conversation i could see that he had his heart set on running for congress and. why didn t you talk him out of it. in. i kind of shrugged it off and said good luck, i don t think he will make it but kind of underestimated him at that point. very few people underestimate paul ryan now. bet that is the case. steve live in janesville wisconsin. now, to his running mate and his board, on the board, governor romney s bus tour is about to take a detour. did you hear about this? the campaign reports it suddenly has a lot more spending money. ooh, the numbers in. wait until you see this.
Narrative with this pick. shepard: and beating him up on taxes and the fact he is not releasing all of his tax returns though he is not required to history says that is what folks do. how to they have a lot of now they have a lot of specifics to work on with the ryan budget plan. sometimes in campaigning specifics no matter what they are can get you in trouble. they sure can. and the house democrats are very excited about getting to run against paul ryan and the ryan budget. of course, something he has been talking about for several years now. 2010.n t work in 21st century the republicans picked up a ton of seats in the house and some in the senate as well. but they are excited about it. but the chairman of the democratic congressional campaign committee today said this is great for them because it was a match made in millionaire s h heaven but a nightmare for seniors and look for democrats to be excited about how they can campaign against paul ryan in florida specifically with t