three things. number one, he was the decisive vote to vote on bowles/simpson. senator greg, coburn, both voted for it, ryan killed it. number two, the ryan budget. the ryan budget doesn t reduce the debt, it increases it by $6 trillion over ten years. and then third, ryan had a chance to be an advocate for debt reduction when he was a junior member of congress under george bush. and instead, every one of those absolutely deficit exploding bills on the credit card. afghanistan on the credit card, prescription drug program on the credit card, the tax cuts, the fantasies that he pay for themselves on the credit card. that add eed enormously to the debt, weakened our economy. and he voted for every single one of those. this man gets an f on his stated purpose in political life. thank you very much for joining us, sir. thank you.
romney in almost a mocking tone. on monday, he accused romney of making stuff up. can we expect the president to even more and further sharpen these attacks in the days ahead? i think you can expect that, martin. good afternoon and thanks for having me. i think you can expect that from the president and quite frankly, all of the candidates. i think you re going to hear not only sharp attack, but attacks that are aimed at really appealing to their bases. as you point out, president obama here today making a point about education. he also charged that the ryan budget would slash education funding, would slash grants for students. that s something that the romney ryan ticket has pushed back against. we checked with independent fact checkers who said look, it is possible that the ryan budget could slash education funding, but the reality is the ryan budget doesn t specify where he wants to cut. that appears to be a consistent problem, with the
you re on your own. one independent nonpartisan study found that seniors would have to pay nearly $6,400 more for medicare than they do today. dee dee myers is a former white house press secretary to bill clinton and contributing editor to vanity fair. eugene is an msnbc political analyst. if i got a pulitzer prize, i d never stop saying it. anyway, thank you. and i don t think i m going to get one, obviously. let s talk about this, let s get through the analysis here. it seems like it s fair, it s tough the advertising over the top you might argue but it s fair in this sense. romney has bought into the ryan plan. ryan gets lots of kudos for guts. but his plan does do what the president says it would do, right? well, yeah, it does. it would turn medicare into a voucher program. it is fair to say in my view that it would end medicare as we
know it. it would create something else that would be called medicare. it wouldn t be the program we know. so this is pretty much a fundamental question. whether you make medicare into a voucher program or you keep it as an entitlement. and i believe the polls show that most people want to keep it the way it is. they don t want it to be a voucher program. they love it. and it s perfectly fair game. we know people on medicare. some of our older brothers. they love it. for the first time in their life they get something for all the work they did. dee dee, let me ask you about this. everybody says cut the budget. cut spending. and it s a good idea. we have a big deficit. how about just cutting the deficit through different taxation policies. but the minute you get to the reality of these cuts, and here we are. you like the ryan cuts, you like him cutting things? here s what he s cutting. medicare. explain it. defend it. i think that s the problem romney s going to have between now a
go ahead, dee dee. i m just going to add, it s important to note that the ryan budget doesn t help the deficit in the foreseeable future. in fact, it adds hundreds of billions of dollars of additional debt. thank you. v have a nice weekend. in this corner, the former speak of the house, newt gingrich, and in this corner, snooki. that can only mean one thing, the sideshow is about to come. and this is hardball, the place for politics. that wonderful thing. and you smiled. and threw it. and i decided i would never, ever leave it anywhere. because that wonderful, bouncy, roll-around thing. had made you play. and that. had made you smile. [ announcer ] beneful. play. it s good for you. constipated? phillips caplets use magnesium,