Done. but he was waiting for congressional buy-in and didn t lead the way. didn t say, i m willing to take the first step. he did take the first step. he put simpson/bowles in place. he said the framework of simpson/bowles is extraordinary. congressman ryan didn t vote for it when hifs he was on the deficit commission. the president last summer made a very bold effort working with speaker boehner to try to come up with a grand bargain. he pushed it very hard. he was very disappointed that he wasn t able to get the republicans to agree to even a penny of revenue. simpson/bowles has even more revenue than the president was proposing. we couldn t get them to go along with the grand bargain. how are we going to get them to go along with simpson/bowles? the president, of course, is willing to work with the republicans. this is an issue that s very important for our generation, our children s generation, our grandchildren s generation. we have got to get our fiscal house in order. the pres
Get reelected and hug that middle group, when you look at obama s path he had an opportunity to strike a barring on with john boehner and opted not to. reporter: i think it will come down to two bowls, simpson-bowles. that was the deficit commission that obviously president commissioned and essentially gave th the stiff arm to. in 2009. it really was a moment. paul ryan voted against that, but still there was no solution really put forward by the white house on dealing with the big entitlement reform, tax reform to push it through congress. bill: i also think too locally here the reason why they are in charlotte is because they thought they could keep the state blue, and maybe they can, but it was so razor tight four years ago. now you have state-wide unemployment at 9.6%. unemployment where we are in
Ryan is they re lying in these instances is they think they can communicate what they want to to more voters. via big speeches and ads thinking that those get to more voters than the media does. some 20 million or more people saw paul ryan s speech. the media coverage thereafter goes to fewer people. and so that s what they re trying to do. at all costs say what they want to say about the $716 billion being cut out of medicare. they want people to be on their side. they think by communicating this way they can win. vice president biden attacked ryan for his claims that the president ignored the deficit commission whp when ryan himself was on the commission and walked out on it. that s true. there are always fine lines in all this. mitt romney often goes around saying no trade agreements were signed by president obama when in fact he signed three. now, the romney campaign says
Major parts. go through them quickly. first, paul ryan went after president obama on the debt commission. he calls to order the debt commission, asks for recommendations on what to do and rejected it and ignored it. one important detail he left out. paul ryan was on the deficit commission and he voted against the final report. the other thing that democrats say that paul ryan flat out misrepresented was the fact that president obama was responsible for closing a gm plant in paul ryan s hometown of janesville, wisconsin. the plant closed before so it s kind of hard for him to be responsible for that. but of course they will be quibbling with a lot of paul ryan s details. republicans loved it. including quibbling abut medicare. that was also a big part of the speech last night as well. thank you to karen travers live in tampa. and, some interesting news this morning, a little bad luck, may be to blame for the outcome of a championship soccer match up in canada. you will never reall
Deficit commission. my political analysis and if we want to switch over to substantively what i think bret: sometimes don t they cross in reality of the world? political analysis is what i think the obama campaign will do. they played tough. i think they are going to really scare seniors; even if you didn t know i it doesn t affect people 55 and older. substantively is a different situation. it looked at paul ryan s medicare plan. i don t find it radical or scary. i m on the fence to be honest. there are persuadable people out there. but there is a the way the campaigns are fought are not around the table. it s in the air. it s through mail. a lot of stuff going on. campaign is very good at. bret: we talk more about medicare in the second panel. charles, you thoughts? ryan pick, if they t democrats succeed to define it, you know the polls. more impressive the poll you showed about ryan.