connor, former managing director at bain capital and a key fundraiser for the romney campaign. paul ryan emphasized inner city plight, he s gone on listening tours focusing on poverty. does he discredit his own pro-poverty focused kcredential? he announced the budget or at least the preliminary budget today by saying that this would help the poor because it would help them get off welfare dependence. it doesn t just get them off welfare dependence. this slices not only food stamps, but every program that the poor depend on in this country. this is not an april fool s joke. however, this is not really a budget. this is really paul ryan s and republicans plan. this is their campaign platform from 2014 and paul ryan s platform from 2016. so don t take it seriously as a
good. that s not the issue for this republican party. they now think as part of the mainstream that a flat rate is the correct way to go. and by the way, the deficits didn t really exist before this president. if you go to mitt romney s website today, you would see him saying that taxes were adequate for the size of the government before president obama. that s plainly not true but if you have that world view, then, yes, sure. warren buffett is paying the right amount of tax and everyone should pay less tax and it s all because obama that there are deficits in the first place. if you live in that billionaire world in the real world where people are not billionaires, which is the overwhelming part of this country, that s not the world we live in. let me ask you, perry, though, both gingrich and santorum s rhetoric paints the president as pro-poverty which is a real stretch. how do you go from fairness to pro-poverty? but let me show you what they say. we know that president obama
business-unfriendly administration, too many regulations, pro-poverty policies like killing that keystone pipeline, calling it the big government, and he says the obama administration wants to serve wants to supervise, not serve the people. interesting line from that rebuttal. that was interesting. abc news fact checks everything that the president said, the numbers about how many jobs were destroyed before he even got into office. that was off. he said four, and it was actually 3.37 mill. and the number of jobs that he s created, he said in 22 months 3 million. it s more like 2.056, according to abc news fact check. fact checking. just to know. we can skew all the numbers all the want. some of the numbers are obviously a little bit off, but there are encouraging economic signs and out of a deep hole we ve got to be thankful for incremental progress. we didn t get there overnight, we won t get out. yes. president obama s top two republican challengers reacted to the speech even
an idea that has bipartisan sport, at least outside of washington. some of what s broken has to do with the way congress does its business these days. a simple majority is no longer enough to get anything, even routine business, passed through the senate. neither party has been blamed. now both parties should put an end to it. for starters, i ask them to pass a simple rule that all judicial and public nominations receive a simple umor down vote within 90 days. the executive branch also needs to change. too often, it s inefficient, outdated, and remote. that s why i have asked this congress to grant me the authority to consolidate the federal bureaucracy so our government is leaner, quicker, and more responsive to the needs of the american people. finally, none of this can happen unless we also lower the temperature in this town. we need to end the notion that the two parties must be locked in a perpetual campaign of mutual destruction. that politics is about clinging to ridge
routine business, passed through the senate. neither party has been blameless in these tactics. now both parties should put an end to it. for starters, i asked the senate to pass a simple rule that all judicial and public service nominations receive a simple up or down vote within 90 days. [ applause ] the executive branch also needs to change. too often it s inefficient, outdated, and remote. that s why i ve asked this congress to grant me the authority to consolidate the federal bureaucracy so that our government is leaner, quicker, and more responsive to the needs of the american people. finally, none of this can happen unless we also lower the temperature in this town. we need to end the notion that the two parties must be locked in a perpetual campaign of mutual destruction, that politics is about clinging to rigid ideaologisologies instead building consensus around common sense ideas. i m a democrat, but i believe what republican abraham lincoln believed the governmen