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Enormous surplus that bill clinton helped to create, we cut taxes twice, raged two wars, then we created a new entitlement program, medicare prescription drug, which was larded with corporate welfare and deregulated wall street. that s what caused the crisis here. i give the democrats a ton of credit for stepping up on medicare. i just don t think that mr. ryan or the republicans have any credibility. they want to end medicare, as they always have, and give the money and tax breaks to the rich and do no good for the deficit or debt. we can argue about what happened in the past. you have to give them credit. they have not dealt with $10 trillion of deficits that are coming up. you talked about something they passed last year. what are they going to do about the deficits coming up, still built into the budget? everybody in the world ....
Anderson, as all of our guests know. there are a lot of details in this. medicare, yes, this is a big, big deal in here. they re talking about a voucher system for private insurance for all of these elderly americans where basically told get money from the government and buy their own insurance. there are some people who would say it is simply changing the nature of medicare. medicaid, they want to change that to block grants to the states, basically that s the care off for disabled people and people who don t have a whole lot of money. they want the states to take over that. there s a provision to lower the top tax rates to 25% and end a lot of deductiodeductions. there are a lot of provisions in it. one thing about the ryan proposal is really massive and sweeping, that s the notion of what this really does is stake out the ground where the debate begins. because as you know, any negotiation, that matters. ....
Changing medicare or fundamentally slashing spending overall in the trillions that he s talking about. but at least he says and other people say they want to begin the debate. one other point, what s going on down the hall, there are six senators, three democrats, three republicans, they have been working for months and months on a bipartisan deal. along the lines of what ryan was trying to do, but to finally get the debt and deficit under control. those are definitely going to be no question the next big fights. dana, stick around. everyone, stick around. we re waiting for the house to vote. we ll bring it to you as it happens. we are watching government in action, finally in these dwindling moments. and we re watching real-time reporting by our cnn correspondents. we ll bring it to you, all that ahead. stay with us. ....
i think right at the end, he and his team did get hurt by this whole issue of planned parenthood. i think the democrats played that very shrewdly and drove that point home and made it sound like it was all about the riders. but if you look at the totality of what he s done and what the republicans have done, they really changed the conversation. look at how harry reid talked tonight. look how the president talked tonight and look at the fact that they got $78 billion knocked off a budget that the democrats all supported. so the republicans i think do emerge with that credit and having changed the conversation. and paul, where i mean, how quickly does this budget battle for 2012 begin and where are the first fronts in that battle? medicare, medicare, medicare. paul ryan has already passed a really revolutionary and radical plan that the wall street ....