basically a statement of what the republican party would do were it given complete control of the government. he s completely comfortable with what paul ryan and the rest of the republican party want to do should that electoral outcome ever, ever be handed to them. now, obviously there s the budget process where you start with that and you amend it a bunch and in theory the, you know, final outcome of that process could yield something that maybe mitch mcconnell wouldn t support. that s not really what he was voting on. he was voting on the platonic version of the paul ryan budget. that s right. the path to proprosperity. the key here, what makes the mcconnell race so fascinating, mitch mcconnell political fig wrur so fascinating, here s a guy who represents a state with a lot of poor folks in it. a lot of people are dependent upon disability, people are dependent upon different programs of the federal government. it s a state in which the medicaid expansion has been massively po
is that they have this agenda that is on the one hand very plutocratic but on the other hand represent states where there s a lot of rural poverty and things like that so they need to find other ways to sell the agenda and it s only when there s focus on those agenda items that they end up in these, tripping over themselves with these sort of false claims. i m amazed by the enduring ability of the paul ryan budget to screw over republican politicians, and i remember at the time, i mean, rachel and i remember on air talking about why would you vote for this thing? it s not going to pass and you just committed yourself to a whole set of wildly unpopular policies and here it is, years later, it was painfully destructive for mitt romney. i think the data bears that out. here we are in 2014, mitch mcconnell s got a race on his hands trying to distance himself from the ryan budget in 2014. right. so the way i view the ryan budget, starting in 2011, and on until today, and i guess it sort
i d like to know how you could have voted to raise my medicare cost to $6,000. how are you wife and i supposed to afford that? you can tell when an attack ad draws blood by the level of defensiveness. on a scale of 1 to 10, i d say this was about a 10. as barack obama s kentucky candidate, alison grimes repeats the same falsehoods obama does, but news media call the grimes/obama medicare attack laughable, using shaky claims to mischaracterize mitch mcconnell s record. okay. on the facts, the mcconnell campaign is right here. that $6,000 estimate was revised down and the guy in the ad would most likely not have been affected by the proposed medicare changes. and also, technically, mitch mcconnell never voted to pass the ryan budget when it was originally proposed in 2011. in a statement to factcheck.org, the mcconnell campaign said,
here we have a woman who has lived experience and a clear voice and capacity to talk about it. are these the kinds of things that will penetrate for your colleagues in terms of making policy when it comes to poverty in this country? let s hope so, melissa. this is a first step. we have to remember a couple of things, however, in doing this. first of all, the right wing tea party republican party really wants to dismantle government. they do not want to see any safety net. they would rather dismantle social security, medicare. they want to dismajtsz by looking at ryan budget, 60% of the safety net is totally cut. so, we have to understand there s an ideology out there that says, let s go for what you know, survival of the fittest, it s a dog eat dog world. secondly, let me comment with the issue of race. race is still a attack for.
mitch mcconnell. as the republican leader in the senate, mcconnell was a top cheerleader for paul ryan s extreme budget that gutted the safety net and ended medicare as we know it. congressman ryan s plan would put us on a path to the national debt. i voted for the ryan budget this week. he voted for it. he applauded it. he loved it. but now it s a different story. his democratic opponent is running ads slamming him for it and his campaign is not taking it well. they released a statement saying, there is no way to speculate if mcconnell would have voted for final passage without having debated amendments. speculate? we don t need to speculate. he said it. i voted for the ryan budget this week. i voted for the ryan budget this week. well, well, i guess you never