searched for paul ryan shirtless than paul ryan s budget. paul ryan s not a budget guy. he s a muscle guy. isn t that right, congressman? did paul ryan think we d really believe he spent all his time working on a budget when he s really been working on his abs? nice try, but we got you.
down the deficit. under president bush, ryan didn t have a budgetary care in the world. he said aye to the medicare prescription drug benefit and voted in favor of the bush tax cuts and voted for the war in iraq and afghanistan. that s right. he votes in favor of the policies that are now the main causes of our national deficit. but when a democrat was voted into the white house, ryan suddenly became the pitch man for budget cuts. joining me now is father thomas reed, a senior fellow at woodstock theological center. he joined others in speaking out against drastic gop cuts against the poor. and ezra klein, a washington post columnist and msnbc policy analyst. thank you both for being here tonight. thank you. ezra, let me start with you. there s so much talk about the
everywhere you turn. secondly they re going to go after him and this is going to look like the ryan/romney ticket. third, ryan is actually a trifecta of alienating voting blocks. hispanics, women, older people. older people last time were the backbone. it s got much narrower if you look at the aarp poll in florida. the whole ryan plan is going to drive those seniors more toward the president. i mean, it doesn t matter whether you re talking about outlawing contraception, medicare, taking away student loans and pell grants, this guy alienates all critical blocks. i m going to have you told it there. congressman chaka fattah and bob shrum, thank you. that s what he said about
it. we don t know how he pays for that. assume that it ll be all right. i don t make those assumptions. father thomas reese and ezra klein, thank you for your time tonight. thank you. still ahead on politicsnation, paul ryan s bringing back the culture wars. it sure doesn t seem like he ll be wooing many female voters. plus what people really want to know about ryan. turns out there s a lot of talk beyond his budget plan. [ male announcer ] what s in your energy drink?
than medicare. you go to whatever doctor you want to go to. and the treatments you need are paid for. now, what they want to do is give you a voucher that says look we re going to cap this at a certain amount. if your health care costs go over that amount, you re on the hook for it. and the average for seniors would be about $6,000 more that this would cost i think b that we knew that pawlenty would be a problem. rubio would have been a major problem in terms of his appeal to certain constituencies like the latino vote. but the pick for ryan was not by romney. you look at what the wall street journal, look at what bill kristol and them said. now they re saying romney can t move away from ryan s budget. they were out talking yesterday. bill kristol said he can t just be for ryan for v.p., he s got to be for the ryan program. they want to take over the whole