mr. president, we know that medicare is going to be dead flat broke eight years from now. what s your plan to save it? we really wanted to know. paul asked the president not once, not twice, but three times. again, no media around. the president was mumbling and wouldn t give an answer. on the third time when the president was pressed, i think your viewers will be shocked, he said his answer to medicare is obamacare. in other words, he plans that medicare is going to collapse and seniors will go into obamacare. seniors want nothing to do with it, because they know it means denial of care. they won t get the hip replacements they re looking for, the knee replacements. that terrifies seniors. sean: reimbursement, when you take $716 billion from medicare. oh, my god. sean: former governor of florida, jeb bush made this comment this weekend, when he
this republican platform. to me, it represents a repudiation and michael, i don t want to get you in trouble by saying something nice about you. it represents a repudiation of what michael steele and a number of other people were trying to do, which is create a bigger tent republican party. this is becoming the pup tent republican party. anti-women, anti-hispanic. anti-seniors with these ryan medicare proposals. michael s right. it s unbelievable as a political matter that they re not talking about the economy. but with the ryan choice, with the akin emergence, the whole conversation has changed. we re not having a referendum election on the economy. we re having a choice election. yes about how we deal with taxes and the economy but also do we want to outlaw common forms of birth control? do we want to tell hispanic immigrants that they re not welcome in this country? do we want to tell seniors we re going to voucherize medical care? i have never seen a party going into a convention i
members of congress believe this. i mean, that stupid bill, that outrageous bill that talks about forcible rape got 250 votes, as paul ryan pointed out or something like that. look, mitt romney signed off on this republican platform. to me, it represents a repudiation and michael, i don t want to get you in trouble by saying something nice about you. it represents a repudiation of what michael steele and a number of other people were trying to do, which is create a bigger tent republican party. this is becoming the pup tent republican party. anti-women, anti-hispanic. anti-seniors with these ryan medicare proposals. michael s right. it s unbelievable as a political matter that they re not talking about the economy. but with the ryan choice, with the akin emergence, the whole conversation has changed. we re not having a referendum election on the economy. we re having a choice election. yes about how we deal with taxes and the economy but also do we want to outlaw common forms of birth
forcible rape got 250 votes, as paul ryan pointed out or something like that. look, mitt romney signed off on this republican platform. to me, it represents a repudiation and michael, i don t want to get you in trouble by saying something nice about you. it represents a repudiation of what michael steele and a number of other people were trying to do, which is create a bigger tent republican party. this is becoming the pup tent republican party. anti-women, anti-hispanic. anti-seniors with these ryan medicare proposals. michael s right. it s unbelievable as a political matter that they re not talking about the economy. but with the ryan choice, with the akin emergence, the whole conversation has changed. we re not having a referendum election on the economy. we re having a choice election. yes about how we deal with taxes and the economy but also do we want to outlaw common forms of birth control? do we want to tell hispanic immigrants that they re not welcome in this country? do we wa
obama team a weapon that they were already going to use but sharpened it for them, right? you just don t want to give that to your political opponent. here s a weapon and i m going to make it a more effective weapon for you. that s what he did. unless it s the briar patch. one possibility is, okay, they were already going to wrap paul ryan around him so they sharpened it by putting ryan next to him. or please saying, don t throw me in the briar patch when that s exactly where i want to be. i haven t figured out if the romneys actually wanted to show up here. tactically speaking, part of the conversation we had this week, not just democrats but republicans, was the lack of the preparedness of the romney campaign for the ryan budget and ryan medicare. we got lots of different answers. again, at the end of the week, we find out, guess what? instead of campaigning separately, they are coming back together next week. and one of the excuses they gave aside from romney s little isolated f