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And who said this? ryan's budget is should be found in the bookstore in the fiction department. that wasn't a democrat either. that is how tea party republicans reacted to paul ryan's budget today, which he introduced and which immediately became a campaign document. democrats are run against it, tea party republicans will run against it, and probably no one, including paul ryan, will run in favor of it. it is a budget that eliminates the affordable care act, but still doesn't cut spending enough for the tea party, even though it ends medicare as we know it. just when republicans are realizing...

Have this budget that repeals the whole thing, and this is not just the exchanges and the subsidies, but this is the 25, 27 states that have taken the medicate expansion as well. now, by the way, as if getting rid of the medicaid expansion isn't enough by itself, the budget turns snap or food stamps, as well as the existing medicare program into a block grant, which means you give a fixed sum, a fixed sum of resources to the states and tell them good luck, even if there's a recession, story, can't help you. so you're completing taking the anti-recessionary component out of those programs. >> y...

Television today with an ad about medicare. they have an image of paul ryan and mitt romney shaking hands. it says "the ryan budget" on it. they think this is political gold. correct? >> absolutely. especially in places like florida where there are so many seniors. president was down there two times last month. i was with him. even bch paul ryefore paul ryane ticket, the president was on attack on medicare. he went to a senior home down in palm beach. it was well received on this message. there were some sense in florida people were souring. and that he never really embrasd obama fully but i t...

Some momentum in terms of folks signing up, getting coverage, we have this budget that repeals the whole thing, and this is not just the exchanges and the subsidies, but this is the 25, 27 states that have taken the medicate expansion as well. now, by the way, as if getting rid of the medicaid expansion isn't enough by itself, the budget turns snap or food stamps, as well as the existing medicare program into a block grant, which means you give a fixed sum, a fixed sum of resources to the states and tell them good luck, even if there's a recession, story, can't help you. so you're completing t...

Optimistic the whole way. i did make a bet in december when it looked very bleak that we would cross the 7 million threshold. so i'll have a very nice dinner in new york. but i do think there are other potential pitfalls as the president recognized. >> yeah, howard dean, this is one of the problems. having legislated in this arena, the democrats politically now own everything that happens in healthcare, including those trends that pre-existed this law, like increasing insurance premiums. >> well, lawrence, they own everything except one pretty big thing. there are a great many red states where...