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Hawk, he's a social services hawk. but we were talking about this earlier, you know, dennis kucinich is not called a deficit hawk just because he wants to cut defense spending, because he has a critique of how much we spend on defense. as for the plan, look, i'm reminded of the opening scene in "the dark knight rises," where a different bane, an evil bane says, it doesn't matter who we are, what matters is we have a plan. in that case, an evil plan to take out gotham. the problem for these guys is what meshes, to go on the krauthammer quote. they both have similar plans to decimate medicare. i...

Writer for "the washington post" and an msnbc contributor. michael, how surprised are you that congressman who, you know, danced all over the floor is saying the stimulus was the end of america, like paul ryan, then got stimulus money, saying that it would create new jobs? >> you know, it's funny. the stimulus has become my number one obsession. >> for a lot of us. it's our number one -- you're perfectly normal. totally healthy. don't worry about that at all. >> that's right. paul ryan's sort of been my number two. and so i would have to say i wasn't very surprised. this sort of fits the m.o. ...

Michael, how surprised are you that congressman who, you know, danced all over the floor is saying the stimulus was the end of america, like paul ryan, then got stimulus money, saying that it would create new jobs? >> you know, it's funny. the stimulus has become my number one obsession. >> for a lot of us. it's our number one -- you're perfectly normal. totally healthy. don't worry about that at all. >> that's right. paul ryan's sort of been my number two. and so i would have to say i wasn't very surprised. this sort of fits the m.o. of a deficit hawk who supported the bush tax cuts and the b...

Differences are. this, they could have seen coming from a mile away, and yet there is no messaging, there is no talking point, there seems to be no strategy as to how mitt romney's going to negotiate this. >> and here's the truth of paul ryan, that the romney campaign, i don't think, quite noticed. and that is, he's never been able to answer television questions about the ryan plan. he's always gone soft and he's always had himself in a position where he's basically playing softball on tv. not under the pressure of being a vice presidential candidate. >> that's right. and even by his own numbe...

A couple of years. thank you. coming up, hey, big spender. paul ryan voted by the way, for expending medicare for both wars, for the auto bailout, t.a.r.p. without paying for any of it. nothing. prescription drug benefit. never paid for any of it. and his budget's not going to bounce for 1,000 years, apparently. so how do you calm a deficit hawk? i have a question for mitt romney and paul ryan. if they're playing for medicare is such a big deal, why wait ten years? sneak it past the older voters today so the later voters will get stuck with it. we should have it with real peting getting affe...