and carry signs that said things like taxes are not for everyone. thank you for paying our fair shea. widen the income gap. for more barpz privatize everything. look at that in the back. corporations are people, too. this was preromney saying that. billionaires for bush was sort of genius. they did survive into the obama era when they became the anti-health reform group billionaires for wealth care. they dressed up in top hats and tails and occasionally as health care industry ceos to oppose health reform with signs like if we ain t broke, don t fix it. and let them eat advil. fight socialism, end medicare now. usually these guys announce their presence. they will put out a press release. billionaires for thing something. but it maybe is possible that this weekend they were in the hamptons protesting against mitt romney without announcing their presence. maybe?
told me. so the reality of the situation at least from your words and what you ve painted here is we re at a dead end again? we re at a dead end. there is nothing new because the republicans continue deja vu all over again. every year, every march, you can mark it off on a calendar they say let s balance the budgets by ending medicare as we know it. for as long as they say that, we re going to fight it as the defining issue in this election. it should be medicare, not millionaires. are you willing to fight it with an idea of what to do next here? here s where we should start. rather than asking seniors to be the first to sacrifice medicare, let s ask oil company executives to be the first tore sacrifice. that s our starting point. meet us in the middle. talk about how we can ask the richest of the rich to do more rather than saying let s end medicare and ask seniors to dig deep near their pockets. thank you so much for joining us. we ll see what fruits bear from this latest rou
and just at the white house news conferences. the progressive people have been tough on the president and gotten a lot of criticism from the left. probably more than anywhere else than the light, but the mainstream media is much easier on him than a lot of these people are. so you bring him into the white house and feed him some coffee and sugary treats and maybe hope for a little better treatment? jim, that s right. all the administrations do this. and i went in either solo or with groups with bush 43, bush 41. i was on two meetings with clinton the at the christmas party and dumped from the list and haven t been back on for a democrat since and i don t understand this. what did you do? we ll try to get on there. moving on to journalistic fact checking, the website political fact, ignited a firestorm from liberals labelling democrats and fellow lefty s claims that republicans vote today end medicare. the lie of the year. that raised all kinds of ire in the mainstream mess
paul krugman wrote political fact, bent over backwards to appear balanced and in the process made themselves useless and irrelevant, why the hatred. if you re a liberal, you have to believe that changing the financing mechanism for medicare is ending the program. and ryan is paul ryan, any change in the financing message of that. and the goal for helping senior citizens is the same, but if you say ryan is ending medicare and then paul krugman and the rest of the left leaning it s absurd they made in the lie of the year and everyone national review had someone blog on this. it s a lie, and a voucher system, and will eventually
partly because there s this program on cspan called congress that is right. that i [ laughter ] congressman, i mean, you make the distinction between house republicans and house democrats. but the president doesn t seem to. do you does it irk you at all that he is going around the country basically running against congress and not really making the distinction between democrats and republicans? no. look, the president knows that when democrats had the majority in the house, we passed legislation sent to the senate that improved the economy. that helped small businesses. that reduced the costs of college education, that continuously supported the middle class. and since then, when the republicans took control of the house, they have not produced anything that will help small businesses create jobs. they have tried to end medicare, and fund tax cuts to big oil companies. the president knows that and the me american people know it. from the new york times poll that you j