michael, if you'd read my book number one out of my top ten lists of politicians wussiness is when you don't vote for something and then try to take credit for it. and i cited congressman ryan writing that letter to the department of energy. >> relative to stimulus funds. >> right. how could he not have known that? it's just shocking. >> governor, i'm not so sure that medicare thus far has been a net negative. i mean, it seems to me that the white house is a bit on the defensive. they've got this new campaign commercial as a matter of fact that i want you to show and dissect. today president obama released this ad defending his record. see if it seems defensive. >> now mitt romney's attacking the president on medicare? the nonpartisan aarp says obama care cracks down on medicare fraud, waste, and abuse. and strengthens guaranteed benefits. and the ryan plan? aarp says it would undermine medicare and could lead to higher costs for seniors. and experts say ryan's voucher plan could raise future retiree's costs more than $6,000. get the facts. >> and the ad came days after days of attacks

if he had read my book, i have the ten worst wussy things politicians can do and number one is ask forrom something that you voted against, and he's my first example. he wrote a letter to the seco secretary of energy and labor asking for money out of the obama stimulus after he said he doesn't. and then secondly, this new revelation, he was a strong supporter of president bush's stimulus, for all the right reasons. because stimulus does help short-term economic growth and job creation. but now, when it's president obama that wants to do it, he's against it. he's coming across as a little bit of a fraud. and in politics, that's really bad with everyone except your base. >> now, michael, you and i debate all the time, but for ed rendell, the voice of reason, to call someone shifty and a fraud, i mean, don't you think you should have given paul ryan his book? >> probably. chapter one, page one. i -- there's some legitimacy to what the good governor says there. i think, from the standpoint that, and it goes back to something i said, rev, when we talked about it on your show when ryan was a

michael, if you'd read my book number one out of my top ten lists of politicians wussiness is when you don't vote for something and then try to take credit for it. and i cited congressman ryan writing that letter to the department of energy. >> relative to stimulus funds. >> right. how could he not have known that? it's shocking. >> i'm not so sure that medicare thus far has been a net negative. i mean, it seems to me that the white house is a bit on the defensive. they've got this new campaign commercial as a matter of fact that i want you to show and dissect. see if it seems defensive. >> now mitt romney's attacking the president on medicare? the nonpartisan aarp says obama care cracks down on medicare fraud, waste, and abuse. and strengthens guaranteed benefits. and the ryan plan? aarp says it would undermine medicare and could lead to higher costs for seniors. and experts say ryan's voucher plan could raise future retiree's costs more than $6,000. get the facts. >> and the ad cams days after days of attacks. here is romney illustrating that point. >> i want to bring as much clarity