"Dems Try To Discredit Paul Ryan As A Deficit Hawk" by Pema Levy at TPM

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Dems Try To Discredit Paul Ryan As A Deficit Hawk

by Pema Levy at TPM

http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/dems-try-to-discredit-ryans-deficit-cutting-clout.php

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“[T]his was a guy who rubber stamped every aspect of the Bush economic policy, including not paying for two wars, a Medicare prescription plan, two big tax cuts,” Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “And now he wants trillions of dollars of more budget busting tax cuts skewed to the wealthy. He really isn’t in a strong position to talk about this problem.”

The Obama campaign is hoping to use Ryan’s consistent votes for Bush-era policies as part of its narrative that Republicans want to take America back to failed ideas. “We all know how well that worked out the last time we tried it,” the president — whose re-election slogan is “forward” — likes to remind voters on the campaign trail.

Ryan’s voting record during the Bush years is something he has spoken openly about. For a profile of the Congressman earlier this month, he told the New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza that “as a fiscal conservative, he was ‘miserable during the last majority’ and is determined ‘to do everything I can to make sure I don’t feel that misery again.’” Lizza described Ryan as “embarrassed by the Bush years,” which goes against his image as willing to make tough choices to cut government spending.

During an appearance on “Meet the Press,” RNC Chairman Reince Priebus took a stab at defending Ryan’s voting record between 2000 and 2008.

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1. RYAN discredited himself as a "deficit hawk"

His record during the Bush years and that HIS budget does not balance until fricken 2028.

Dems have nothing to do with it.