who knows with paul ryan what you turn up. ct that ryan is getting more mention now than he was before really speaks to the problem mitt romney has. so do the primary results tonight for that matter. there is strong resistance to mitt romney. we see it in the wisconsin returns tonight not just among republicans but a specific type of republican. socially conservative, social conservative evangelical christian. the most conservative elements of the party. these people are still refusing to vote for him. these are the people that are going to be disproportionately represented this summer. if it's not paul ryan, it has to be something like paul ryan. >> rachel maddow made the point that ryan can be a really boring speaker. does he have the capacity with rhetoric to light up a room? >> no. he's not a particularly exciting speaker. you saw that when he did the response to the president's state of the union last year. one thing about paul ryan that people should understand, he is a very charming man. he is very, very good in tv inter

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choice between competing visions of our future has been so unambiguous and the clear one vision is paul ryan's budget which passed through the house of representatives with all the ten republicans supporting here's how the president described the ryan budget. this congressional republican budget is something different altogether it is a trojan horse disguised as deficit reduction plans is really an attempt to impose a radical vision on our country it is thinly veiled social darn darwinism it is antithetical to our entire history as a land of opportunity and upward mobility for everybody who is well in the work for president then went on to give examples of just how harmful this budget will be to america if it's an accurate. if this budget becomes law and the cuts were applied evenly starting in two thousand and fourteen over two hundred thousand children would lose their chance to get an early education in the head start program two million mothers and young children would be cut from a program that gives them access to healthy food there would be forty five hundred fewer federal grants at the

three states, wisconsin, maryland, and washington, d.c., paul ryan campaigning alongside mitt romney . we just had paul on, defending himself against obama's budget charges. i want to know if this is a vice presidential preview, not on our show. campaigning with mitt romney. let's talk. veteran democratic strategist bob strum, robert costas a quickie, bob costas, too delicious not to ask. romney and ryan campaigning. is this a vice presidential preview? >> looks like a pretty good pair on the trail. sounded like a vice presidential contender right there. brings the upper midwest. catholic, youthful. connections in washington. budget chair would be smart pick for mitt romney, if he's worried about rob portman's bush connectionses. >> steve forbes, don't know if you heard any of the paul ryan interview. surely you know the obama attack today. i want to ask you, do you believe mitt romney is the right guy to stand up to the obama attack? you're radical this, radical that, throw people out of work and kill the economy and cutting taxes for rich people. is romney the right guy to make the

mitt romney's victory party in milwaukee tonight, governor romney was introduced by paul ryan. it wasn't a great introduction, but it did lead to this great moment once mr. romney finally took the stage. >> congressman ryan, he's a great leader, wonderful speaker, but he's not going to take ann's place, i've got to tell you that. >> why would you think i know? i have no idea what that's about. but it was amazing, right? but all of those images of mitt romney and paul ryan together this week, including in the matching outfits, and including tonight with you're not going to replace ann quip, those might ultimately be the biggest and most consequential thing that happened this week on the republican side of 2012 politics. as mitt romney was campaigning in wisconsin today, the man whose presidency he would like to end, president obama, spent the day today wrapping a metaphorical bow around mr. romney and mr. ryan together. mr. obama spoke to newspaper editors from across the country at the annual meeting of the associated press today in washington, d.c., and he let loose on the paul

let me show you how paul ryan responded. quote, like his reckless budgets, today's speech by president obama is as revealing as it is disappointing. while others lead by offering real solutions, he has chosen to distort the truth and divide americans in order to distract from his failed record. his empty promises are quickly becoming broken promises and the american people will hold him accountable for this violation of their trust. your response, the white house response to congressman paul ryan. >> well, what i'd like you to do is contrast that brief bit of boiler plate from congressman ryan to the substantive fact-filled presentation the president gave today. what's lacking from congressman ryan and what is lacking in his budget are any of the statistics and facts and numbers and math to back up his promises. what we know is that in order to pay for substantial new tax cuts for the wealthy, the money has to come from somewhere. and it's going to come from nondefense discretionary spending, only. and from entitlement progr

should pick paul ryan as vp.ul ryan budget, he ought get the guy to sell it and push it. on the other hand if you are somebody else who wants to be president in 2016, why would you sign on thinking you should have called the romney campaign? they are going down fast. more people see mitt romney the less they like him. mitch dan yields or chris christie or jeb bush or anybody who thinks they have a chance, i don't want to be anywhere near this ship. >> paul ryan, the paul ryan plan and augusta, the master's jamal simmons, democratic strategist in studio with us 866-55-press, your ticket to join the conversation here on this thursday, april 5th. how about it? >>welcome to the war room. >>jennifer granholm joins current tv. a former two-term governor. >>make your voice heard. >>detremined to find solutions. >>that partnership in order to invest in our country is critical. >>driven to find the truth. >>how did romney get his groove back? >>fearless, independent and above all, politically direct. keeping it real. ♪ >>

the paul ryan plan doesn't reduce the deficit. it takes this huge, huge hit at programs for the poor, and it turns medicare into coupons. so why would you put all of that out there in an election year, knowing that the democrats could then shoot at it? >> i think there are a few things going on now in terms of the incentives that motivate republicans. one, this is the most conservative -- just if you were to map this on paper -- this is the most conservative congress, the most conservative republican conference in the house that's ever been in house, the one put in last year. a lot of these republicans just simply think ideologically this is the right thing. they're for it. a lot of them are also insulated. they're not going to have to worry about it. then there are pragmatic i think people deep inside are pragmatic republicans who are left in washington and sort of in the national party. but they learned a very important lesson from the 2010 midterms when you had sharron angle, christine o'donnell. you had all of these people, te

is paul ryan the achilles' heel? >> this is classic obama. is demagogue go everybody that is productive in society. i think basically i don't believe that ryan, i think on the message he has a better message to the american people. i think this is all going to be about organizing, fund-raising, using the web. kinds of things that obama excelled at in 2008, basically it's a debt and deficit and scaring grandma. if they don't get their message out there and somehow convince people that obama's path is lower standards of living for the american people, scaring grandma is more powerful. >> paul: so don't get lost in the weeds and autistic children are going to be in the streets, but go fight back on debt and deficit and growth? >> i think basically they have to fight back on the condition of the economy. look, paul, that speech and things you just described, i not only is he going to run on it. i think its fairly potent strategy to run on. >> paul: i think it's aimed at women. because it's placed financial. >> here is the irony. barack obama has p

. >> that is congressman paul ryan, chairman of the house budget committee. "the wall street journ" says that thehite house tm must feel president has not hit it with his comments. social darwinism, charles? >> accusing ryan of trickle- down social darwinism. who writes this rubbish? he and the democrats have not presented a budget in three years. here are the republicans, presenting a budget ich is serious. it h its flaws, but it a tax entitlements, the problem of tax reform. this president has spoken about it but has not done anything about it. he has decided he cannot run on his record and cannot run on a mission -- a vision. he will run against the republicans as the republicans were the ones in office. he has been president for one term. what has he offeredn the budget? >> it is hard to know whose budget is a bigger joke, obama's or the republicans'. they are irresponsible in the extreme. >> how? tell me how the ryan budget -- >> cuts in discretionary spending -- would shut down the fda went date a week -- faa one day a week. >> increes in defse sndin whi

he loves being next to paul ryan because paul ryan will be around no matter what. walk a much more volatile player. romney and santorum are glad to talk about how they agree with walker there, big for the anti-union stuff, big for the cuts, but to be photographed with scott walker at this point is a rather dangerous thing. i think walker and romney understand that. that picture comes back to haunt men if walker is defeated in recall or runs into big legal trouble, that's embarrassing for romney. walker is going into a recall election where he's going to desperately be trying to present himself as a moderate figure, so he really doesn't want a picture of him next to presidential candidate who has had to run hard hard to the right. bottom line is, i think they have sort of decided to keep their distance but they have talked each other up in all these cases. >> great to have you with us. in the news tonight, mitt romney has won the state of maryland and the district of columbia. that's "the ed show." "the rachel maddow show" starts right now.

and paul ryan is from wisconsin. he needed paul ryan's endorsement. and so they were joined at the hip. so just shows the extent to which mitt romney continues to be in a primary battle even though everybody thinks he's going to be the nominee. gwen: how successful can the republican whoever it is nominee be targeterring the president -- the fear of obama's second term? how much is that central to what the -- what all these arguments are about? >> well, the argument that mitt romney made in front of the newspaper editors was that the president in his first two years did a lot of really aggressive things. he spent a lot. he passed big programs. that he sort of trimmed his sails going into in election. and sort of moved a little bit toward the center. what mitt romney, the doubt he is trying to plant in voters' minds is once this election is over with, which barack obama would show up. gwen: and where is the part establishment on both sides in all of these arguments? we know where they are with romney, for instance. >> well, the establishment on the rep

policies like the paul ryan budget in underwear if you go to our website it's all about promoting the ryan budget and encouraging both democrats and republicans running for president to endorse these ideas but other than that they don't get many details on what their exact plan is it's pretty much just a paul ryan promotion group amazing you also have a story up over public report now about the business roundtable what do we need to know about the business roundtable and their access to our lawmakers but this is a very powerful lobby group kind of like the chamber of commerce they've got tens of millions of dollars they spent a lot on lobbying. berenice it's bringing in c.e.o.'s of fortune one hundred companies you know xerox j.p. morgan besser think wellpoint and bring them in to literally need with legislation they want to lobby against the volcker rule which is their big priority right now for lobbying for more corporate tax cuts and specially tax cuts on call on profits made overseas this repatriation issue when he was this is were not on table is bragging right now and saying tha

here's what paul ryan said a little more of paul ryan on "morning joe." you know, we're kind of used to these verbal tantrums from the president, unfortunately -- >> that was a verbal tantrum? >> i would think so. look at it this way, we propose to increase annual federal spending from $3.6 million a year to $4.9 instead of the president's $5.5 trillion. that makes us social darwinists. >> joining me now gene sperling, a man never known for verbal tantrums. gene, great to see you. your response to pixie dust and verbal tantrums? >> look, the president's proposing the buffett rule as part of an overall agenda he has for growth, jobs and long-term deficit reduction. what's very important about the buffett rule is not only does it contribute to deficit reduction, but it contributes to the trust and fairness that the american people would have in our current government and also in the prospects of future tax reform. if people believe that tax reform or efforts we're going to make to bring the deficit down are going to, once again, lead to situations where the

but i must say that in all that we said so far about my pal paul ryan we neglected paul ryan lowered tax rate on corporation and the rich. got about i think it goes down to 25% on the top. 10%. >> andrea: rich would pay higher under his plan. >> juan: no, they wouldn't. >> andrea: they would. >> juan: he has forgotten the talk about lower tax rate to spur economic growth, well, exactly how would this be revenue neutral? how would you pay for the tax cut to the rich? he doesn't say. he doesn't say what tax deductions or loopholes he'd eliminate. how is that a responsible budget document? >> greg: okay, let me ask you, kimberly. could you argue that president obama is exercising social darwinism putting off the harsh cuts so we might end up in a situation much like greece, or a road warrior apocalyptic, when we are the survival of the fittest on motor bikes. >> kimberly: he is pushing us down along the path for sure. the comments he made don't help anybody. it stirs up class warfare. he's acting like a cry baby. he is not coming forward with any good ideas. harry reid is not helping at

paul ryan being seen with him time and time again. paul ryan introduced him last night. knowing that could help him pick off some of that tea party support knowing he had to have a better showing in wisconsin among those groups so we would be having this conversation today. >> the bigger issue too last night, his speech was the tone was very much leading into the general election tone that he's going to have. it was very negative. it was all political rhetoric. i'm attacking the president. at a time when he needs to bring in the youth and the women and these groups that bhoem last time, i hope that's not the narrative he has in the general election. >> i think that's the narrative. >>> he also towards the end of his speech, he and obama have gone back and forth on this is american exceptionalism, who is more exceptionally loving of american exceptionalism i guess. he did try to say believe in america, we believe in america. we believe in ourselves. clearly that's also part of the general election message and him taking on obama. >> focus on mitt romney's message. hugo, i

he knows what is in paul ryan's mine. other than $5 trillion in tax cuts -- >> that is simply false. on social security, ryan has offered to raise the retirement age and reduced the amount the rich get rid the democrats have offered zero. on medicare, for which ryan and republicans have got slaughtered, he proposes to go to a premium system. the democrats have offered zero except it demagoguery. on discretionary spending, ryan has spelled out all kinds of cuts. i agree come in when area, he talks about lowering the rates but did not specify the lo opholes. having gone out on a limb on everything else, you are asking the republicans to commit political suicide when the democrats have offered nothing on anything. >> he is much more specific on entitlements than the democrats. if enacted, it would have a shot at controlling medicare cuts. the democrats are shamefully non-specific. but both sides are not willing to tell the voters about the problem. >> the people who pay the most are between $60,000 and $120,000. they get abo

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in screw news the next few months you'll likely see a flurry of political advertisements touting paul ryan's republican trickle down austerity budget and the members of congress who support it these ads will be brought to you by a group called ending spending which recently purchased three hundred seventy five thousand dollars worth of advertising and dean's spending is just the latest super pac creature born out of the supreme court's citizens united decision and like all the other super pacs there's a disturbing link between big business high powered lobbying firms and our politicians joining me now to expose these links and for most of all what else we need to know about the corporate buyout of our government is lee fun estimate of a reporter with the united republic's republic report we welcome you as a great glad to have you back with us lee so what's the deal with this ending spending organization. well as you mentioned there are a lot of groups coming out. and support the poll ryan plan which you know cuts taxes on what corporations slashes and how much in privatizing medicare we saw

conference of catholic bishops also send letters to paul ryan. the letter i'm going to read from their letter said a just spending bill cannot rely on disproportionate cuts in essential services to the poor and vulnerable. i've been a little bit tough on the bishops for being focused on other issues so bravo to the bishops, i'm giving them applause on that. so, i assume you're happy to see this united focus of catholics on this issue. >> absolutely. and i think what needs to be noted especially is that bishop blair and his co chair had sent a letter to congressman ryan before he issued his budget, and so that while a new release was released today with the same principles, they really did try to influence his thought about catholic social teaching. when congressman ryan said he's preaching the fullness of the gospel message he's been totally informed that this is not true yet continues to persist in it. i'm glad that they have spoken out against this. >> it is. it's so great finally. let me -- i'm with you sister, preaching. let me ask you though

what do you say to paul ryan?aul ryan, as i representative of thousands and thousands of senior citizens whose rug he would pull out from under them, him and mitt romney, with their budget that would end mid care as we know it turn it into a voucher system, make sure that seniors had to go out on their own and figure out how to make up for the gap in their health insurance, that that's unacceptable. in america, we made a commitment long ago that we were going to have a safety net for seniors and a floor through which we're not going to allow them to fall through and we're going to mack sure that their children don't have to go into medical bankruptcy taking care of them. that is what the republican path to poverty would do in the ryan/romney budget. the blueprint that they've laid out, it shows where their values are. >> people are questioning if the rhetoric at this point seven months before the election, what's going to look like going down the road? orrin hatch said something i want your reaction to. he's predi

he may do the etch-a-sketch thing and may make his distance from paul ryan later, but it will be more difficult after the events of the past three or four days. >> well, it's interesting that mitt romney wears the ryan plan. he's endorsed it. president obama can't think of anything better because here's what he said of the ryan plan today. >> in this country broad based prosperity has never trickled down from the success of a wealthy few. it's always come from the success of a strong and growing middle class. >> and of course, he talks about the ryan plan as a trojan horse. politically james carville, is this good for the president? it seems that way, but will it be in two or three months? >> i think it will. i think agree with david. i think the president tipped his hand today. what i'm curious is is romney tipping his hand because ryan is very popular with the economic conservatives in the republican party, and he may feel that he needs to maybe help make him vice president. i don't know this. but seems as though the president and romney are doubling down and paul ryan is getting to

maybe paul ryan somewhere in the cabinet. that may be the conversation but i don't think he's going to be the guy down the hall. >> howard, you saw president obama's speech today. is the president already assuming the general election between himself and mitt romney has begun? this i believe was the first time the president has mentioned romney by name. he was very forceful in his speech today. >> yes. he was forceful to the point of being grimly determined to make the case that the paul ryan budget belongs to the republican party, it belongs to mitt romney. it's the defining feature of the modern hard right republican party and barack obama is prepared to run against it and run against it hard. i was struck at the speech he gave before the newspaper editors. he didn't talk about his own record. he didn't talk about the administration's accomplishments. he focused almost exclusively on the ryan budget and that's to firm up the base of the democratic party what the president is going to focus on. >> romney's new take on presid