ISSUE: Medicare
- Audrey Kubetin
- Apr 4, 2012 at 10:06 am
Romney: Ryan Plan Is Simply ‘Marvelous’
Paul Ryan’s budget plan would cause the gradual demise of the Medicare system and cost 1 million students their Pell grants while preserving tax breaks for oil companies. And Mitt Romney thinks it’s ‘Marvelous’?
- Sam Drzymala
- 9:58 am
Romney: Ryan Plan Is Simply ‘Marvelous’
Paul Ryan’s budget plan would cause the gradual demise of the Medicare system and cost 1 million students their Pell grants while preserving tax breaks for oil companies. And Mitt Romney thinks it’s ‘Marvelous’?
- Derek Pearce
- Feb 15, 2012 at 3:28 pm
TPM: D’oh! Romney Backer Attacks Santorum For Same Votes He Cast Himself
On February 14, 2012, Talking Points Memo reported:
From Political Surrogate Usage 101: Don’t send your surrogate out to attack someone for exactly the same thing he once did.
The Romney campaign did just that when they dispatched former Sen. Jim Talent (R-MO) to attack Rick Santorum’s budget-busting vote to add a Medicare prescription drug program in the Senate. The problem they quickly ran into was that Talent voted the same way.
- Audrey Kubetin
- Nov 3, 2011 at 5:33 pm
Renacci: Ryan Plan “Not a Voucher System”
In this clip, Jim Renacci gets into an argument with a constituent over Paul Ryan’s plan to replace Medicare with a health care voucher program. Renacci takes issue with the term “voucher.”
“I do want you to take a very good look at the Ryan Plan, it is not — it puts it into a free market system, it privatizes it, it gives subsidies, not vouchers. It subsidizes more for those that need more, it subsidizes less for those that need less.”
This footage was captured by an American Bridge tracker in Wooster, OH, on September 28, 2011.
- Audrey Kubetin
- Nov 2, 2011 at 1:28 pm
George Allen on the Ryan Plan
In this clip, former Senator George Allen discusses Congressman Paul Ryan’s plan to revamp Medicare by replacing it with a voucher program.
Allen says the Ryan plan is a “thoughtful proposal,” particularly in terms of how it would remodel the tax code and turn Medicaid into a block grant program to the states, but Allen thinks “we should do much better than that.”
This video was captured by an American Bridge tracker in Virginia on June 14, 2011.
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MEMO: 12 Things We Could Learn From Previous Romney Tax Returns
ICYMI: With Mitt Romney still refusing to release his pre-2010 returns, we wanted to be sure that you saw our previous memo explaining why it is so important that Mitt Romney release them.
Click through for the 12 questions that Mitt Romney needs to answer by releasing his previous years’ tax returns.
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ICYMI: Romney Profited From Government Handouts
This morning, the Los Angeles Times reported on Mitt Romney’s reliance on tax breaks and government subsidies while working in private equity. The article focuses on Steel Dynamics, the same steel company featured in Romney’s positive ad released just this morning, and all of the government help they received. In fact, Dekalb County was forced to institute a new tax to pay for all of the handouts.
Despite his constant opposition to government interference in the free market, Mitt Romney has a long history of profiting from government handouts. Research after the jump.
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Scott Brown’s Website Steals Childhood Anecdote From… Elizabeth Dole
Sen. Scott Brown may have some explaining to do. It seems a passage from his website detailing the values instilled in him as a young child was stolen essentially word-for-word from former Sen. Elizabeth Dole.
Original research & screenshots after the jump.
