AARP Audience Boos Eddie Haskell(Paul Ryan)

     It's funny reading Greg Sargent equate Ryan with Eddie Haskell. For one thing, that's the thought I had of him since he joined the race. He has this whole persona of 'Not me Mr. Cleaver! I didn't cut your Medicare it was him!'

     Second as he actually one biggest apple polisher back in high school which shows that his classmates knew him.

     Eddie Haskell bombed at the AARP yesterday. Many have asked how Ryan ever got this reputation as a sober policy wonk. No doubt it was his Eddie Haskell effect.

     "I’m a huge fan of the Paul Ryan as Eddie Haskell idea, so of course I’m going to urge you to read Digby on Haskell/Ryan at the AARP. Important point I’ve made before: Eddie never fooled June Cleaver. Not for a minute."

     http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line

     Reading Digby herself, now:

     "It looks as if not all the seniors are enamored of that nice young man Paul Ryan. (And yes, you probably have to be eligible for the AARP to know who Eddie Haskell is ...):"

      "Here's the thing. The younger seniors (and keep in mind AARP says it starts at 50) are the most engaged in politics and are particularly interested in their own ability to keep bread on the table and stay in reasonably decent health in their elder years. They follow these issues intently."

      She also speaks approvingly of the President's speech before AARP where he said he's considering the idea of raising the cap on Social Security payroll taxes-a reform that's way overdue.

      If we can only tax everyone $105,000 on SS why must it be their first $105,000? Why not the second or third? But raising the cap is a great idea. If it were up to me, I'd love to see the cap raised to the first $1 million-assuming we have to have a cap at all, which I'm dubious about.  Then we should cut the payments of lower income workers.

     Here I am trying to help the hated 47% again. Here's more on Eddie Haskell's speech to AARP:

     "Paul Ryan’s speech to AARP’s national conference in New Orleans did not go over too well with the audience."

     "The Republican vice presidential nominee, who has led his party in proposing a privatization plan for Medicare, drew repeated jeers and catcalls as he made the case for Mitt Romney’s platform on entitlements."

     "Easily the worst moments came as Ryan discussed repealing the Affordable Care Act, which increased prescription drug and preventive service benefits for seniors."

     “The first step to a stronger Medicare is to repeal ‘Obamacare,’” Ryan said, prompting a chorus of boos. After the outcry, he said: “I had a feeling there would be mixed reaction, so let me get into it.”

     "He drew a second wave of disapproval for saying the president’s law “turned Medicare into a piggy bank for ‘Obamacare.’” Ryan was referring to $716 billion in Medicare savings enacted by the ACA — savings he himself has included in two budgets — that largely came out of payments to insurance providers.

     "Another tough response from the crowd came as Ryan attacked Obama as a cynical failure for not negotiating changes to Social Security cuts with Republicans."

     “Time and again the president has ducked the tough issues,” Ryan said. “He put his own job security over your retirement security. Of course he said he would be willing to work with Republicans, but he has not moved an inch closer to common ground. When it comes to bipartisanship, it’s easy to talk the talk but there is only one man running for president this year who has actually walked the walk: that man is Mitt Romney.”

     http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/09/video-paul-ryan-booed-throughout-aarp-speech.php?ref=fpb

    Encouraging that the attacks on ObamaCare got the biggest jeers. Ryan again earns his name-the Lying Paul Ryan-by claiming that the President "ducked" tough issues. His claim of Romney's "bipartisanship" is particularly rich seeing as his bipartisan moment was passing ObamaCare in Massachusetts. It amazes me the ability of this campaign to simultaneously attack ObamaCare while trying to still get Romney some credit for it all the while vowing to repeal it at the same time.

    Evidently Eddie Haskell is losing a step. we should give a HT to the media on this one as they have performed better during this campaign, not falling for Ryan's Haskell routine.