Mitt Romney Chooses A Running Mate
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2012-08-13/mitt-romney-chooses-running-mate
Mitt Romney’s choice of Paul Ryan as his running mate is already generating momentum among conservatives. But the choice also highlights divisions between the parties over spending, taxes and entitlements. The Wisconsin congressman is the architect of a plan to remake Medicare and cut trillions in federal spending. And despite the boost he brings to the GOP presidential ticket, Romney is already distancing himself from Ryan’s controversial budget proposal. And President Barack Obama is now calling Ryan the ideological leader of the Republican party. Diane and her guests discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the 2012 Republican presidential ticket.
Guests
Chris Cillizza
author of The Fix, a Washington Post politics blog, managing editor of PostPolitics.com and author of a new book, "The Gospel According to The Fix."
Byron York
chief political correspondent for the Washington Examiner.
Michael Gerson
columnist for The Washington Post and author of "Heroic Conservatism: Why Republicans Need to Embrace American's Ideals."
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Let the games begin! End medicare as we know it or go bankrupt. How can you reason with people who only have revenge in mind or want something for nothing, takers. Revenge is a disease that takes over your mind and soul, an all devouring product of the worst of human kind. Revenge can't be bargained with, it cannot be compromised with, it is a solution that guarantees the destruction of everything it touches. There are political blocks of revenge seekers who have bought into the idea that seeing others suffer through the strong arm of government force will bring justice and prosperity to their depraved lives. If their beliefs and goals are realized the fruit will indeed be sour. The takers in the end will end up with even less, their short sighted greed and the belief their owed something for doing nothing to earn it is just as destructive as the haters seeking revenge. This is what is at stake this November, certain bankruptcy, economic stagnation and the continuation of the politics of hate and division from the president, or the chance to put ourselves on more solid footing, the difference could not be more stark.
Medicare Ended ....Medicaid Ended....Social Security Ended....The V.A Ended..Student Loans Ended.....Just for starters.
Extremist doctrine right out of the John Birch Society manifesto.. No Social Justice under their vision of the Constitution. TV ads are running as I type promoting the CHURCHES rights,and eliminating women`s rights.
T-Party controlled school boards are already re-installing segregated schools.For profit charter schools are using books Bob Jones created,for religious indoctrination,once called the Hitler Youth. The T-Party is demanding the end of Title 9...The T-Party demands that voters be barred from voting...
Remember,their motto...YOUR Government is not the solution.YOUR government is the PROBLEM. Nowhere in the T-Party rhetoric does their government have any solutions.
John F.Kennedy had to promise not to allow the Pope any control of our government.Mitt Romney creates a 4th branch of government. The Department of Religion.
Medicare is broke, it pays out about three to four times more than people pay in. No, you did not contribute enough through payroll taxes to pay for the medicare benefits that you are likely to receive. It is underfunded by tens of trillions of dollars and it is a disaster waiting to happen. This pretty much describes all entitlement and welfare benefits, a disaster waiting to happen.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/02/12/us/relying-on-government-b...
"On September 10, 2001, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld held a press conference to disclose that over $2,000,000,000,000 in Pentagon funds could not be accounted for. Rumsfeld stated: "According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions." According to a report by the Inspector General, the Pentagon cannot account for 25 percent of what it spends. Such a disclosure normally might have sparked a huge scandal. However, the commencement of the attack on New York City and Washington in the morning would assure that the story remained buried"
If the T-Party really cared about fiscal responsibility,they`d start looking where the real waste,fraud and abuse is. Instead they`ve been fixated on Reagan`s mythical Welfare Queen in her pink Caddy for over 30 years.
The RR Richie Rich boys? I wonder how fast Bane would be given 100`s of BILLIONS of no bid military contracts,like Cheney`s Halliburton stole.
Patsy Nomore wrote: "According to a report by the Inspector General, the Pentagon cannot account for 25 percent of what it spends"
Good job! another good example of government unaccountability, the Pentagon does get away with a lot in the name of "national security". But I am sorry to inform you that the "T-Party" would be disgusted as well if this money was wasted and we don't know that because of the secretive nature of the Pentagon and their ability to hide their dealings.
You do realize this unaccounted for money was over a long period of time and brought to light by a republican. In any case it is a fraction of what the entitlements are costing, medicare alone by Obama's own appointee is losing about 25% a year in W.F.A.
Here is a good link about Rumsfeld's comments.
http://www.911myths.com/index.php/Missing_Trillions
Partisan wrote previously:
"or the chance to put ourselves on more solid footing"
What a laughable joke. If Rmoney and Ryan get elected, our country is doomed.
I am not sure about you offshore guys, but I have paid and paid into Soc Sec and MCare for many years..........so this bit about wanting "something for nothing" is a total sham, not to mention that real US citizens would know that Medicare requires premium payments by recipients......and premiums for Medicare Supplements.
Recent articles in such vaunted liberal rags as Rupert Murdoch's Indianapolis Star show that Social Security recipients never get back what they pay in these days and Medicare is far from any cadillac plan.
Too bad cookie cutter conservative bloggers always resort to Frank Luntz sound bites instead of facts. Plus the 2.5 billion Patsy mentioned was under Bush......your comrade leader.
Paul Ryan's budget as scored by CBO shows the deficit will INcrease and the employment targets he provides are totally UNachievable.
Moreover, IF Ryan and Romney repeal RomneyCare........er, the ACA medical costs will go thru the roof and since that means the pre-existing condition features will be gone, all old folks will be too sick to get the private insurers voucher version of Medicare.......even those under 55 will be cherry picked........and health insurance will only be available to the ultrawealthy.
It was ironic to see not one but two non veterans run down the plank from a navy warship........a moment that would be ridiculed if liberals had staged such a vignette.
Lets see if americans vote against their best interests and elect the oligarchs over democrats.
The RR Richie Rich boys say the people don`t understand how business works. Romney & Ryan support and protect the "Job Creators" who ship our jobs abroad. Romney & Ryan support and protect the "Job Creators" who hide their profits offshore,and do not reinvest in America.Romney & Ryan support and protect the "Job Creators" who cheat the American people,and evade the tax man.
WE UNDERSTAND EMPTY FACTORIES.WE UNDERSTAND GREED.
WITH PATRIOTS LIKE THE RICHIE RICH BOYS,WHO NEEDS ENEMIES?
Go Romney/Ryan, lets get the socialist minded Obama out of the white house, and while we are at it take back the senate so we can make some real progress.
When I saw today's topic, I figured that partisan politics (AKA Glen Beck) would be the first to start foaming at the mouth. ROFL
For all the criticism the Ryan budget receives, it did boldly address the run-away deficit that everyone agrees must be brought under control. And how did it compare to the Democrat-led Senate's budget? Oh, that's right. They never passed a budget as is required by law. And our savior-in-chief was too busy complaining about how the conservatives wanted to build a moat along the Mexican border to criticize them and demand they get one done. Rock solid leadership there.
Excuse me! The Indianapolis Star is not a liberal rag. Well! maybe a rag that chooses to delete the regular Doonesbury strip over the years. The Star knows best for their own interest. They practice it. They would protest a government supplied cyanide pill.
We can argue "ideology", Conservative vs Liberal, Capitalist vs Socialist, but that does nothing to make our Government solvent! Why did Russia give up Communism? Because we outspent them till they said, "uncle"! The world will be ruled by he who has the gold. The one and only issue that we need to address is "corruption". Get that under control and the rest will follow. We already know Obama's take on spending and entitlements. We really need a "new" plan.
I think Mitt Romney just named 2012's version of Sarah Palin as his running mate. It's hard to rationalize such a risky pick. Paul Ryan's budget, which takes billions from Medicare and gives it to billionaires as tax breaks will almost certainly cost Republicans the senior vote, one of their most reliable demographics. It's also too soon to tell whether this will impact House and Senate races. If it does, who will be blamed, Mitt Romney, or Paul Ryan? I don't think Republicans are prepared for the general public's response to this extremist, right wing agenda. Just for fun, go to the AARP blog site and see what their members are saying about Paul Ryan. Those are some angry and fearful seniors the Republics have fired up.
HonestAbe wrote: "Plus the 2.5 billion Patsy mentioned was under Bush......your comrade leader"
Hello ! look at the date when Rumsfeld made those comments.September 10, 2001
also look at the link for medicare spending provided by nohoplophobe. Sorry but you did NOT pay in what you are most likely to receive.
Election will now boil down to two things:
1) Whether the left is able to portray Ryan as dishonestly as they have portrayed Romney.
2) Whether the country is ready to have an honest debate about addressing entitlement reform and the deficit.
If 2 is true then 1 won't succeed. If 1 happens then the answer to 2 is "no".
Thanks Diane for this important discussion.
As a George HW Bush type Republican, I was hoping for someone with strong foreign policy credentials. E.g. Condoleezza Rice or David Petraeus. Romney misses this mark with Ryan.
But this election is about more than our place in the world. This is the fork in the road where we choose to become a social democratic state or maintain our nation's unique status as one in which individual responsibility is paramount. Ryan clearly understands this.
Incredibly important election. I hope everyone will think seriously about future generations and not just vote based 'what's in it for me' politics.
Can your guest please discuss the controversy between Catholic leaders and Ryan on poverty and health care. The distance between the philosophy of one of Ryans heroes Ayn Rand and the Catholic church stances on poverty
Where is the balance in this panel? I would expect it of Gerson and Cilliza but the third panelist is an unbiased journalist? Lets stop throwing garlands at the Republican ticket - shameless!
Ms Rehm states, Ryan's age is 'very interesting.' What does that mean? Why isn't his intelligence or leadership 'very interesting? Is Biden's age relative to Obama 'very interesting.' His ignorance is certainly embarrassing. How is age relevant?
For a good analysis of the Ryan pick, recommend taking a look at the following from Nate Silverman of FiveThirtyEight:
A Risky Rationale Behind Romney’s Choice of Ryan by Nate Silver (FiveThirtyEight)
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/11/a-risky-rationale-be...
I had believed that comments about the 'Beltway Media' thinking Paul Ryan was a serious economic policy thinker were overblown until I listened to today's gang of three 'Beltway Media' commenting on what a "serious" person Ryan is. A Very Serious Person. Big Ideas. Hard choices.
Budget numbers that don't add up do not make someone serious. A cursory reading of Ryan's budget fraud would have told them that. Beltway Media. I turned the radio off.
I’m listening this morning and typical comments about the Republican campaign’s VP pick for Romney; and nothing new heard from you and your guests including digging up Ryan’s early interest in Rand which he has long moved away from as an adult. Paul Ryan is very well suited for the job in several ways but we won’t be hearing much on that from the D.R. Show today.
Hey Ms Rehm, what's the precedent for VP needing to be a foreign policy pro? Have you heard of this thing called the Cabinet?
note to Jim Davis.
Under the constitution, budgetary items cannot originate in the Senate of the U. S. Government. They must originate in the House of Representatives.
Hope that makes you understand why the Senate hasn't offered up a budget.
PLEASE ask your guests to use correct names. I am certain that they can say The Affordable Care Act.
Furthermore, although my listening today has been sporadic due to chores, I haven't heard either gentleman mention the possibility of raising taxes, especially the very simple act of raising taxes on the top percentage, as they were under George Bush, back when the budget was balanced. Some of us remember that far and more.
Over at Mondoweiss Phillip Weiss writes that "Cnn's Peter Hamby reports that Paul Ryan will be in Vegas tomorrow meeting with Sheldon Adelson."..cccching. By the way Ayn Rand referred to Arabs as "savages" and "culturally undeveloped"
I am suspicious of the Ryan arguments about the 'fiscal cliff' and the looming disaster because my understanding is that there is nothing in the Ryan budget that addresses revenue. If there really is this fiscal danger then it seems that there ought to be considerations about generating income and not this exclusive emphasis on making cutbacks. How can arguments that everything should be cut without taking care of the other side of the equation be taken seriously?
Romney was losing the election because the Obama/Biden/2012 critique of Romney as a Vampire Capitalist who will suck us dry to line his pockets is working.
The Obama campaign will continue with that campaign and simply open up a branch office to go after Ryan. Unfortunately for Romney, Ryan reinforces Romney's reputation as a greedy, heartless elite.
Either way, Romney loses.