here s how you save your kids from a debt-laden future. here s how you save medicare. this is the kind of debate, the honest debate, that we need to have versus impugning people s motives. what did you learn from your run for the vice presidency and being mitt romney s running mate? what did you take away as a republican as you look to the future? it was a great experience. i feel that i benefited tremendously from that. my family got to see a lot of the country. we got to see countless people who just feel so passionate about their country. the other thing i learn was mitt romney would have been one heck of a great president. he is a very good man. the big regret i have is we didn t win the election and weren t able to put the reforms we think are right for the country in place. and now we re going to have to use this tool of divided government to try and make it work. what do you think the party should learn from the loss? obviously, we have to expand our appeal. we have to e
we hear the rhetoric but never see the results. and more importantly, businesses know we have to close this deficit. businesses know we can t keep spending money we just don t have. businesses budget. washington hasn t had a budget for four years. the president and his party have been in charge of washington during this time. they have not budgeted for four years. and businesses know that you can t operate an enterprise, let alone the federal government, without budgeting. let me have you respond to this other argument about entitlements, about the role of government. and the president really launched it as part of his inaugural address when he said this. we recognize that no matter how responsibly we live our lives, any one of us, at any time, may face a job loss or a sudden illness or a home swept away in a terrible storm. the commitments we make to each other through medicare and medicaid and social security, these things do not sap our nation. they strengthen us. they do not ma
his mission is to redeem and resurrect a 50-year pre-reagan liberal ascendency. accordi accordingly, his address is his historical marker, the reagan of the left. if he succeeds in the next four years, he would have earned the title. and i so that, bob, because of what paul ryan said that i thought was so notable, is that he believes this president is more interested in political conquest than political compromise. that is the backdrop for a second term. and ryan is an important figure in this in many ways. and i think you agree. he s quite likely the future of the republican party. but if you go back three years ago, president obama himself publicly said that the ryan proposal on medicare was serious and legitimate. the president is playing and not the republicans aren t. they play a lot of politics. but the president is playing politics too. when i talked to the president
economy going again. you re exactly right. and the psychologically for the democrats and republicans, it s so important that there be some consensus. you get paul ryan here with his charts, and it looks like the world is going to end at some point. and you need to get everyone onboard to the idea, no, the world is not going towas on capl this weekend. you get a sense that a lot of the gun legislation is not going to be successful. immigration reform is moving at pace. they are having very constructive conversations, republicans and democrats together. the entitlement piece is going to be hard, whether the president wants to go very far on medicare. he has liberals saying don t do it, don t raise the retirement age. so how do these pieces come together here in the next three, four, five months? that is exactly the question. when he even suggested raising that retirement age from 65 to 67, decades from now actually, and not affecting current
and the psychologically for the democrats and republicans, it s so important that there be some consensus. you get paul ryan here with his charts, and it looks like the world is going to end at some point. and you need to get everyone onboard to the idea, no, the world is not going to end. andrea, i was on capitol hill this weekend. you get a sense that a lot of the gun legislation is not going to be successful. immigration reform is moving at pace. they are having very constructive conversations, republicans and democrats together. the entitlement piece is going to be hard, whether the president wants to go very far on medicare. he has liberals saying don t do it, don t raise the retirement age. so how do these pieces come together here in the next three, four, five months? that is exactly the question. when he even suggested raising that retirement age from 65 to 67, decades from now actually, and not affecting current retirees, the whole liberal base exploded against him. the aa