On Sunday he announced that in the budget he plans to release that we've heard such fanfare about this week not only does he propose the voucherization of Medicare he also calls for the elimination of ObamaCare.
What mandate? He thinks his ticket has the mandate. Interestingly, he differs from his running mate as well, who actually thinks that opposition to ObamaCare was one of the major reasons they lost; of course, this is just a little ironic in itself, as it was Romney's law, but he wanted to run against it during the campaign. Then late in the game during the debates he started trying to claim credit for it as well as promising to repeal it "my first day in office."
The common response among the Republicans to the President's recent "charm offensive" seems to be that while it's appreciated-'it's a little late'-he should have been doing this all along. Sure. While they were out vowing to make him a "one term President" and to oppose anything he opposes even if they agree with it.
Here's Ryan on their recent lunch:
"House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan says that before Thursday's White House lunch with President Barack Obama, he'd never had a real conversation with him.
"This is the first time I've ever had a conversation with the president that lasted more than two minutes, or televised exchanges," Ryan said on "Fox News Sunday."
"I've never really had a conversation with him on these issues before," Ryan said.
"Ryan (R-Wis.) and Obama met for lunch on Thursday, as the president reaches out to congressional leaders to try to get a bipartisan debt and deficit deal."
"We had a very frank exchange," the Wisconsin Republican said. "We come from different perspectives. I ran against him in the last election."
"Ryan said the next step was up to the president."
"Will he resume the campaign mode? Will he resume attacking Republicans and imputing our motives? Will he resume what is long believe to be a plan to win the 2014 elections?" Ryan asked. "Or will he sincerely change and try and find common ground?"
http://www.politico.com/blogs/politico-live/2013/03/ryan-never-spoke-to-obama-for-more-two-minutes-158919.html?hp=l1
Sure, it's all on the President to find common ground. Ryan's part in finding it is his proposal to repeal ObamaCare: I wonder if that came up at lunch.
As ObamaCare actually saves money it's going to be even tougher to balance the budget in 10 years. It's going to be a very interesting unveiling of this budget of his this week.
I mean let's get this straight. Ryan lost the election. However, we can't raise taxes on the rich. We will abolish ObmaaCare and we will voucherize Medicare. Of course, we won't call it that. To get a preview of the kind of scintillating arguments from Ryan we''ll be hearing listen to his answer to the criticism that he is again trying to turn Medicare into vouchers: "It's not a voucher — it's premium support, those are very different," the Wisconsin Republican said on "Fox News Sunday."
"A voucher is you go to your mailbox, you get a check and you go buy something. That's not what we're saying," Ryan said.
"We're saying, let's convert Medicare into a system that works like the one I have as a congressman," he said. "Medicare subsidizes your plan based on who you are. Total subsidy for the poor and the sick. Less of a subsidy for wealthy seniors."
http://www.politico.com/blogs/politico-live/2013/03/ryan-on-medicare-proposal-its-not-a-voucher-158918.html?hp=l1_b2
He claims they didn't lose the election over his voucher plan:
""I would argue against your premise that we lost this issue during the campaign: We won the senior vote," Ryan said.
Well that doesn't prove American likes the Ryan plan. Seniors were the one group whose benefits he had promised not to touch-until now. Lately he's been floating trial balloons to see if he can get away with reneging on his promise. He's now determined that he can't get away with it but he was trying to.
Regarding the plan to eliminate ObamaCare, Chris Wallace put it well:
"Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) said Sunday that the budget he will introduce next week repeals health care reform because that under 'Obamacare,' "we think it's going to look very ugly over the next couple of years."
. "Appearing on "Fox News Sunday," Ryan explained that his budget is based on the assumption of repealing 'Obamacare' and replacing it with a new system. His budget also reforms Medicare for those currently under 55 years of age."
"Are you saying, as part of your budget you assume the repeal of ObamaCare?," host Chris Wallace asked.
"Yes," said Ryan.
"Well, that's not going to happen," Wallace said.
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/ryans-new-budget-repeals-obamacare?ref=fpb
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