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Flashback: Paul Ryan And Obama Go Head To Head At Health Care Summit
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by Laura Donovan | 2:51 pm, August 11th, 2012
Memory Lane isn’t always a place of shiny, happy nostalgia. Take for instance the February 2010 debate between President Barack Obama and Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, who has just been confirmed as Mitt Romney’s vice presidential candidate.
Speaking at the health care summit, a direct Ryan told the commander-in-chief:
“Look we agree on the problem here and the problem is health inflation is driving us off a fiscal cliff. Mr. President, you said health care reform is budget reform. You’re right. We agree with that. Medicare right now has a $38 trillion unfunded liability…And in September when you spoke to us in the well of the House, you basically said — and I totally agree with this — ‘I will not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits either now or in the future.’ Since the Congressional Budget Office can’t score your bill because it doesn’t have sufficient detail, but it tracks very similar to the Senate bill, I want to unpack the Senate score a little bit. And if you take a look at these CBO analysis, analysis from your chief actuary, I think it’s very revealing. This bill does not control costs. This bill does not reduce deficits. Instead this bill adds a new health care entitlement at a time when we have no idea how to pay for the entitlements we already have…The Senate Budget Committee chairman said that this is a Ponzi scheme that would make Bernie Madoff proud.”
An alert Ryan went on to school Obama on the issue. Watch the full clip below — you’d be hard-pressed to find a more titillating health care summit conversation. Expect a lot of roasts in the upcoming presidential debates:
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/paul-ryan-president-obama/
August 11, 2012
August 11, 2012
Obama's predictable first shot at Ryan
You might recall that President Obama harbors no love for Rep. Paul Ryan after the wonkish congressman sliced apart Obamacare during the 2010 health care summit.
And, of course, the president and the Democrats spent the entire 2010 campaign running against Ryan's budget plan -- including a commercial that featured a Ryan lookalike pushing an old woman in a wheel chair over a cliff.
So, the Obama campaign's first reaction to hearing the news about Ryan being chosen as Romney's running mate was both typical and predictable.
"In naming Congressman Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney has chosen a leader of the House Republicans who shares his commitment to the flawed theory that new budget-busting tax cuts for the wealthy, while placing greater burdens on the middle class and seniors, will somehow deliver a stronger economy," Obama campaign manager Jim Messina said in a statement e-mailed to reporters.
"The architect of the radical Republican House budget, Ryan, like Romney, proposed an additional $250,000 tax cut for millionaires, and deep cuts in education from Head Start to college aid. His plan also would end Medicare as we know it by turning it into a voucher system, shifting thousands of dollars in health care costs to seniors. As a member of Congress, Ryan rubber-stamped the reckless Bush economic policies that exploded our deficit and crashed our economy. Now the Romney-Ryan ticket would take us back by repeating the same, catastrophic mistakes," Messina added.
They can continue to berate Ryan and Romney over the budget plan, but by doing so, they highlight the fact that they have no plan of their own. This is why the choice of Ryan is important. The fundamentals of the campaign have shifted dramatically in Romney's favor. From a contest where personality and class warfare dominated to one that will feature a geniune debate about two political philosophies, the Obama campaign must now engage on a whole other level.
There will still be attacks, but by the time November rolls around, the American people are going to have a clear choice.
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