2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumNYT's Gail Collins: Political Page Turners
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/18/opinion/collins-political-page-turners.htmlPractically the only person in America who claims to have no idea who hes going to vote for is Senator Joseph Lieberman, who recently declared himself absolutely and totally undecided. People, do you think its possible that the entire presidential campaign is now being waged just for the benefit of Joseph Lieberman? On the one hand, thats a real waste of about $1 billion. On the other, its exactly what Joseph Lieberman has been waiting for all his life.
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Romney has a plan to make Medicare solvent forever. We know this because he wrote Solvent on the board at a press conference the other day.
Ryan used to have a plan to make Medicare solvent forever by taking it away from everybody under age 55 and giving them health insurance vouchers instead. But that was so 2011.
Now, Ryan and Romney are on the same page when it comes to Medicare, which is that it must be saved from the $716 billion in cuts President Obama wants to make over the next 10 years. Although that same $716 billion was in the budget plan that Ryan got the House to pass this year. But its not like he expected it to happen. We would never have done it, he told campaign reporters, desperate wretches condemned to roam the earth with calculators, endlessly searching for the Ryan-Romney page.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)He makes outrageous proposals and "plans" and advocates for ridiculous, unworkable policies that he knows can never be implemented -- because outrageous sells to his fanatical, unrealistic, sick, nasty fans.
Ryan is an irresponsible would-be-political-rock-star politician. He likes to make noise and get a lot of attention even though the racket he makes isn't really music and does not sell or get listened to.
Ryan is good at making headlines but not at making laws. He is good out loud, but not good at effective. And that "We would never have done it," is his own way of admitting just how useless he is in Congress.
Romney/Ryan -- the ticket that "would never have done it," never does it and will never do it. I'm glad to see that Ryan admits to what a fraud his proposals are.
Now the question is, what are Ryan's real plans for the country? Give it away to big corporations? That's my guess.