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Obama set to wage war on Ryan budget

Obama set to wage war on Ryan budget

President Obama and his party’s campaign machine have aimed their guns at Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan following the passage of his extensive budget plan in the House largely on party lines last week, and his campaign trail presence and endorsement of Republican presidential primary front-runner Mitt Romney. The president is reportedly planning to slam the Wisconsin Republican’s budget proposal during his remarks at the Associated Press luncheon in Washington Tuesday.

After the measure passed in the House last week, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney preached the Occupy Wall Street rhetoric that “House Republicans today banded together to shower millionaires and billionaires with a massive tax cut paid for by ending Medicare as we know it, ” and CNN reports that the president plans to echo his December speech in Osawatomie, Kansas; calling for “economic fairness and shared responsibility.”

“But this time, the president will push back on the Ryan plan specifically, largely because the measure has been praised by the Republican presidential candidates and Ryan himself campaigned for leading candidate Mitt Romney over the weekend. Moreover, these senior White House officials say, Americans are likely to oppose the plan when they learn of the deep cuts to popular entitlement programs it calls for.

The speech is the latest effort by the president to frame the upcoming election as a defining choice over which direction the economy goes, senior administration officials also say. Obama will argue that should a future Republican president enact a budget that resembles Ryan’s plan, middle class Americans will be hit especially hard and the fragile economic recovery is likely to regress.

He will also again press for the so-called ‘Buffet Rule,’ a proposal that so far hasn’t gained significant traction in Congress. Under the proposal, all Americans making over $1 million would pay at least a 30 percent tax rate, regardless of whether their income constituted capital gains or not.”

The Democrat-controlled Senate, which has gone over 1,000 days without a budget, is near certain to avoid approaching the House-passed Ryan plan. The Hill reports that Democrats want to turn this year’s Ryan budget into an election-year liability for the GOP, and are already buying ads to attack vulnerable Republicans who voted for it.

Democrats strongly attacked Ryan’s budget last year, using similar rhetoric that ”Republicans voted to end Medicare,” earning the title of “the biggest lie of the 2011” as decided by the Pulitzer Prize-winning factcheck website of the St. Petersburg Times, PolitiFact.com. After the Democrats voted against the budget, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee launched a successful ad campaign targeted at seniors in key special election districts, featuring claims about the Ryan plan which have since been called into question. All eyes will be on Democrats to see if they follow through in applying similar tactics in 2012.

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  • chuckn8481
    Posted on April 3, 2012 at 8:36am

    It would be so nice if Republicans got a clue and realized to combat these ads you need visuals as clever as the Dems. The way to counter this campaign is you run the same ad the Dems ran only at the end the Congressman jumps off the cliff with the little old lady that was just dumped. The narration finishes, “Here’s the fact. Both Republican proposals Senate and House, are to offer seniors the same plan that Congress enjoys now. Medicare unchanged will go bankrupt in 2024, if left unchanged. This idea was the brain child of John Kerry, so why are Democrats against it now? Playing politics with your healthcare, There they go again.”

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  • out of many one
    Posted on April 2, 2012 at 10:22pm

    The choice is between the adults in the room and the occupy gang. Ryan and the Republicans are the responsible ones trying to stop the car from going over the cliff. Obama and his clueless occupy groupies all want to floor it as the car, and the economy, crash off the cliff.

    Ryan’s plan would spur the economy so there would be fewer people needing a safety net. More jobs, less welfare. What’s not to like? (Unless you like being dependent on government.)

    Democrats assume there will always be more and more helpless, ignorant victim groups begging Big Daddy government to help them. They thrive on creating victim groups.
    Republicans know the great feeling of taking care of yourself through hard work and determination.

    Obama’s friend Bill Ayers tries every day to get rid of capitalism. But every morning a little kid sets up a lemonade stand and proves him wrong.

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