Robert Reich: Memo to Joe: Expose Ryan’s radicalism
Wow, he's getting LOTS of advice today.
Wednesday, Oct 10, 2012 06:24 PM EDT
Memo to Joe: Expose Ryans radicalism
If Biden wants to win the debate, he must lay bare how regressive his counterpart's budget plan truly is
By Robert Reich,
FROM: Robert Reich
RE: Debate
Beware: Paul Ryan will appear affable. Hes less polished and aggressive than Romney, even soft-spoken. And he acts as if hes saying reasonable things.
But under the surface hes a rightwing zealot. And nothing he says or believes is reasonable neither logical nor reflecting the values of the great majority of Americans.
Your job is to smoke Ryan out, exposing his fanaticism. The best way to do this is to force him to take responsibility for the regressive budget he created as chairman of the House Budget Committee.
Ryan wont be able to pull a Romney pretending hes a moderate because the Ryan budget is out there, with specific numbers.
Its an astounding document that Romney fully supports. And it fills in the details Romney has left out of his proposals. Mitt Romney is a robot who will say and do whatever hes programmed to do. Ryan is the robots brain. The robot has no heart. Its your job to enable America to see this.
I suggest you hold up a copy of the Ryan budget in front of the cameras. You might even read selected passages.
Emphasize these points: Ryans budget turns Medicare into vouchers. It includes the same $716 billion of savings Romney last week accused the President of cutting out of Medicare but instead of getting it from providers he gets it from the elderly.
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