it's sis
and if you don't believe
that
they're aware
uh...
the potential
for
this election
confined or bombers chance to move
on this grand bargain after the election
i've got this
one
at present as evidence here in my stack
is a piece from august seven twenty twelve
by the new york times
anirudh hopis obama is an avid reader in critic of the news and at one of these
peeps
but this is a story that was clearly written to get the following paragraph
out there
the news media has played a crucial role of the mr obama's career helping to make
him in national star not long after you had been an anonymous state legislator
as president however
his come to believe the news media have had a role in frustrating is ambitions
to change the terms of of the country's political discussions
keeper particularly believes the democrats do not receive enough credit
for their willingness to accept cuts in medicare in social security
while republicans oppose almost any tax increase to reduce the deficit
we know that president obama had put
cuts the social security and medicare cuts are scary in the form of training
the c_p_i_
how we calculate cost of living increases
raising the eligibility age for medicare we know that he put that on the table he
was willing to accept that deal
he had it
basically come to terms with john boehner
for supposedly eight hundred million dollars worth of eight hundred billion
dollars worth of tax increases
that in fact
we're all based on laffer curve math anyways
but put that aside for a moment
we know that's the case and now we see this story
come out in the new york times
supposedly saying that paul ryan
was the biggest roadblock
too
coming to terms on the grand bargain this comes out just days afterwards
who is pushing at this
this me well of course it's the administration
elements in the administration
who want that grand bargain after november
who rather than seeing this as an opportunity to get a mandate to go
forward with non este ready policies
to go forward with policies that say we need to tax the rich
policies that say we need to protect so security and medicare at all costs
they see this as an opportunity to open up the door for a grand bargain
a grand bargain that comes in the form
of
our skin bolts
of the ball
all simpson simpson bowls memo they didn't have a commission report of
course
because they couldn't get enough people to sign on to it
and her skin balls
is willing to be the next treasury secretary
and remember now it was
president obama
who helped create the notion
that paul ryan was the intellectual pillar of the republican party he is the
one who had early two thousand nine i believe it was rock paul ryan into this
national health care may lose may two thousand
this national health care debate remember that live televised
surround table debate
paul ryan was the guy coming in with his plan to destroy medicare
the reason why president obama brought in paul ryan the most extreme right wing
ideologue corporate est
not deficit hawk fake deficit hawk because it never cared about the deficit
in care about at what i was voting offer those
deficit creating up plans during the bush administration and his plan itself
does not
reduce the deficit
all it doesn't shrink the size of government
inet offsets that rigging sizing government with a with cuts to uh...
shrinking the revenue base in other words tax cuts for millionaires
and by bringing paw up all ryan into that debate
it created space and move the center of that debate towards the right
and then president obama points alan simpson longtime foe soc care iti
longtime foe of medicare
republican former senator
and appoints a co-chair
a clinton night
democrat
corporate ist
who also
favored the privatize ish in
i need to death of soc carry
a guy named her skin bolts
and if you have any question is where our skin bulls
rumored to be the next
treasury secretary
where he stands on this divide
listen to this clip of erskine bowles
from two thousand eleven
eight months ago nine months ago
talking about all ryan and paul ryan's budget plan which is now so toxic
that we already already
have a over a half a dozen republican candidate senate and house
running from this
some of whom even voted for are now saying well
out abell was a mistake
here's our scandals
i believe you all met paul ryan
we should get in to come to the university
i'll tell you this guy is amazing
uh... i always thought i was ok with arithmetic distracted run circles around
me
and he has honesty is straightforward he is sincere and the budget he came
forward with his just like all right
it is a sensible straightforward honest
serious budget
and it cut the budget deficit just like we did not four trillion dollars the
president came out with his own plan
and the president as you remember came out with uh... budget
and i don't think anybody took that budget very seriously
of the senate voted against it ninety seven to nothing
he bare four after a lot of pressure from folks like me
ha he came out with a new budget framework
in that new budget framework he cuts
he cut the budget deficit by four trillion dollars over twelve years
and two
be candid
this
this four trillion dollars cut was very heavily back in loaded
so if you look at it over to your bases
in that compare apples to apples
it really was about two and a half trillion dollar cut
so there you have a risk in bold singing the praises of paul ryan is being a
leadership in its serious individual
while now every single person who is crunch the numbers
on paul ryan's budget says it's a joke
it said joke
so here is the opportunity that we have is progress
this
campaign
you want to do something you wanted to eat something
must repeat over and over again
at one oh palm a wins
it is a vote against cutting social security and medicare
i don't care if that's not obon this position
we can say it's a vote against paul ryan it's a vote against mitt romney and why
are people voting against paul ryan in mit romney
because they want to maintain the integrity
of our medicare
and our social security system
and that means no cuts
no cuts are necessary
her skin balls as one of the privatize social security
years in years and years
if the kids now not
unko incidentally
on the board of directors of uh... is a morgan stanley
citrus i don't know who it is
manza banker
and we all know wide bankers
investment bankers
want uh... source kerti privatized
'cause guess who makes all the fees
guess whose stock market gets propped up
so uh... this is an opportunity for progressives who have otherwise i'm not
been terribly enthused
between picking uh... between twiddle dee and twiddle dum
uh... because we can now define
who is twiddle dee
and who is twiddle dum