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Boehner: Paul Ryan’s agenda is the GOP agenda
Boehner: Paul Ryan’s agenda is the GOP agenda
By Greg Sargent
Democrats have been hoping to use Paul Ryan’s new budget, including his latest Medicare plan, as a warning about the larger agenda Republicans will pursue if they gain more power in Washington. Today, John Boehner confirmed that the Ryan agenda is indeed the GOP’s agenda writ large:
Both sides appear to think they have the political upper hand in the showdown over the Ryan budget. Republicans believe that the American people will credit them with a serious effort to tackle a major problem that is jeopardizing our future — entitlement spending — and will argue that Dems have completely abdicated leadership on this front. Republicans recently circulated internal polling which purported to show that key GOP talking points on Ryan’s Medicare plan — it’s “bipartisan,” it would keep Medicare from going bankrupt, it preserves the option of staying in the current program — garnered the support of a plurality of Americans.
But Dems remain convinced that the priorities on display in the Ryan budget will prove toxic for swing voters. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities recently estimated that the Ryan budget would give millionaires a $265,000 tax cut on top of the Bush tax cuts, even as 62 percent of its spending cuts come from government programs that help those with low incomes. CBPP’s Robert Greenstein recently opined that it would “likely produce the largest redistribution of income from the bottom to the top in modern U.S. history and likely increase poverty and inequality more than any other budget in recent times.”
Meanwhile, it’s unclear what kind of success Republicans will have in selling Ryan’s new Medicare reforms. A recent National Journal poll found that 64 percent of Americans favor leaving traditional Medicare as is; less than one forth favor Ryan’s changes, even if they are told that seniors will still have the option of buying into the current program.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/boehner-paul-ryans-agenda-is-the-gop-agenda/2012/03/29/gIQAZcDNjS_blog.html
By Greg Sargent
Democrats have been hoping to use Paul Ryan’s new budget, including his latest Medicare plan, as a warning about the larger agenda Republicans will pursue if they gain more power in Washington. Today, John Boehner confirmed that the Ryan agenda is indeed the GOP’s agenda writ large:
House Speaker John Boehner said Thursday afternoon that the budget proposal put forward by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan is a “real vision” of how Republicans would govern if they had more control of Washington.
“So I applaud my colleagues,” he said of those who worked on the Ryan budget, “for the tough decisions they’ve made, to try to do the right thing for the country, to lay out a real vision of what we were to do if we get more control here in this town. It’s still a Democrat-run town.”
“So I applaud my colleagues,” he said of those who worked on the Ryan budget, “for the tough decisions they’ve made, to try to do the right thing for the country, to lay out a real vision of what we were to do if we get more control here in this town. It’s still a Democrat-run town.”
Both sides appear to think they have the political upper hand in the showdown over the Ryan budget. Republicans believe that the American people will credit them with a serious effort to tackle a major problem that is jeopardizing our future — entitlement spending — and will argue that Dems have completely abdicated leadership on this front. Republicans recently circulated internal polling which purported to show that key GOP talking points on Ryan’s Medicare plan — it’s “bipartisan,” it would keep Medicare from going bankrupt, it preserves the option of staying in the current program — garnered the support of a plurality of Americans.
But Dems remain convinced that the priorities on display in the Ryan budget will prove toxic for swing voters. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities recently estimated that the Ryan budget would give millionaires a $265,000 tax cut on top of the Bush tax cuts, even as 62 percent of its spending cuts come from government programs that help those with low incomes. CBPP’s Robert Greenstein recently opined that it would “likely produce the largest redistribution of income from the bottom to the top in modern U.S. history and likely increase poverty and inequality more than any other budget in recent times.”
Meanwhile, it’s unclear what kind of success Republicans will have in selling Ryan’s new Medicare reforms. A recent National Journal poll found that 64 percent of Americans favor leaving traditional Medicare as is; less than one forth favor Ryan’s changes, even if they are told that seniors will still have the option of buying into the current program.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/boehner-paul-ryans-agenda-is-the-gop-agenda/2012/03/29/gIQAZcDNjS_blog.html
It's the Romney-Ryan plan.
Top White House Adviser Labels Ryan Budget 'The Romney-Ryan Plan'
In an apparent new messaging tactic for 2012, White House senior adviser adviser David Plouffe labeled the new Paul Ryan budget the "Romney-Ryan plan," seeking to tether the GOP presidential frontrunner to the budget blueprint released last week.
"The Ryan plan -- which, by the way, is supported by the presidential candidates. So Mitt Romney is the frontrunner, this is really the Romney-Ryan plan," Plouffe said on Fox News Sunday. "It will be rubber-stamped if Mitt Romney is elected president. It fails the test of balance, and fairness and shared responsibility. It showers huge tax cuts on millionaires and billionaires, paid for by seniors and veterans."
"The right approach is the president's approach," he added, grilled by Chris Wallace on the president's budget. "That also allows our economy to grow. It doesn't strangle education, doesn't gut investments in clean energy. So, it's the right path to grow the economy and reduce the deficit."
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/white-house-adviser-label-ryan-budget-romney-ryan
In an apparent new messaging tactic for 2012, White House senior adviser adviser David Plouffe labeled the new Paul Ryan budget the "Romney-Ryan plan," seeking to tether the GOP presidential frontrunner to the budget blueprint released last week.
"The Ryan plan -- which, by the way, is supported by the presidential candidates. So Mitt Romney is the frontrunner, this is really the Romney-Ryan plan," Plouffe said on Fox News Sunday. "It will be rubber-stamped if Mitt Romney is elected president. It fails the test of balance, and fairness and shared responsibility. It showers huge tax cuts on millionaires and billionaires, paid for by seniors and veterans."
"The right approach is the president's approach," he added, grilled by Chris Wallace on the president's budget. "That also allows our economy to grow. It doesn't strangle education, doesn't gut investments in clean energy. So, it's the right path to grow the economy and reduce the deficit."
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/white-house-adviser-label-ryan-budget-romney-ryan
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but it certainly is not fair for most people. Basically, Ryan's "Ayn Rand Budget 2" expects the 99% to do with less services, less efficient and more expensive medical coverage in their old age, and subsidize the 1% but, hey, if they want to hold that plan up as an example of what they want to do if given total power, then who am I to discourage them.
