With Rep Ryan being selected as Mitt Romney’s running mate for the 2012 presidential election, a new focus has been put on entitlement reform, and budgets. Democrats have been going after Ryan for his wanting to have a discussion on how to fix Medicare. However when pressed, democrats cannot defend the $700 Billion in cuts to medicare Obama has passed into law.
That is right, Obama plans to cut $700 billion from medicare. These cuts will have an immediate affect on seniors. Romney wants to restore medicare and restore the $700 billion that Obama cut from Medicare back to medicare.
On Meet the Press, National Review’s Rich Lowry challenges MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow to defend the $700 Billion Obama has cut from Medicare. She cannot defend it and looks like a complete disingenuous idiot in the process.
RICH LOWRY, NATIONAL REVIEW: Republicans should go on offense on Medicare, because the president as part of ObamaCare passed $700 billion in cuts in Medicare. And Romney wants to repeal ObamaCare, including those cuts. So at the top of those…
RACHEL MADDOW, MSNBC: Wait, wait, wait.
LOWRY: Hold on. Hold on. So at the top of the ticket, Romney versus Obama, there’s only one of those guys who wants any cuts affecting current seniors.
MADDOW: Wait, wait, wait, does Romney versus Ryan, then. The Ryan plan keeps the Obama cuts for Medicare.
LOWRY: The Ryan plan does…
MADDOW: So is it Romney or Ryan?
LOWRY: …mostly as a matter of just preserving the CBO baseline. But the top of the ticket is Mitt Romney. Mitt Romney wants to repeal those cuts, and the fact is, Rachel …
MADDOW: That’s amazing…
LOWRY: The fact is Rachel if a Republican were proposing $700 billion, had passed $700 billion in Medicare cuts, you’d be savaging that president for their brutality to seniors.
LOWRY: Do you support $700 billion in cuts in Medicare over the next ten years?
MADDOW: I’m not running for president.
LOWRY: Do you?
MADDOW: I’m not running for anything. Paul Ryan is running for vice president.
LOWRY: Do you? Why can’t you answer? See, you can’t answer.
MADDOW: But wait, I’m not running for anything..
LOWRY: This is the key vulnerability. Democrats have cut $700 billion out of Medicare which you won’t or can’t defend it. Defend it.
MADDOW: Is it good or bad?
LOWRY: Do you support it? You can’t answer.
MADDOW: But wait. Why are you asking me?
LOWRY: You can’t answer. Because you’re an opinion maker who is supposed to give us your opinion. But you will not tell us what your opinion is.
MADDOW: What I want to know is the logic of…
LOWRY: Democrats cannot defend that.
MADDOW: Wait. I want to know is the logic…
LOWRY: Go ahead. Defend it.
MADDOW: What I want to know is the logic.
LOWRY: [Laughs].