Ryan said at the time he was excited to get invited to the speech at George Washington University. That changed when he heard Obama speak. "What we got was a speech that was excessively partisan, dramatically inaccurate and hopelessly inadequate to addressing our country's pressing fiscal challenges," he said.
To audiences, Obama and Ryan can both operate in a big-message world, but they are both comfortable in the weeds of policies. Even with each other.
When Obama spoke to House Republicans at their own conference in January 2010, he commended Ryan for having put forward "a serious proposal." Obama made clear it had ideas he agreed with and plenty of others "we should have a healthy debate about because I don't agree with them."
The next month, at a health care summit, Obama and Ryan got into a wonky exchange about how to shrink costs to the taxpayer. When Ryan called Obama's vision a "government takeover of health care," Obama responded at length, and the two sounded like they could have debated the points all day.
"There are some strong disagreements on the numbers here, Paul," Obama said, "but I don't want to get too bogged down."
Obama has found himself at constant odds with Ryan and other House Republicans, and tried to make it a campaign approach. "I would love nothing more than to see Congress act so aggressively that I can't campaign against them as a do-nothing Congress," he said in October while pitching his jobs plan.
That sounded a lot like his comments in Iowa on Monday, when he went after Ryan by name, which was his way of going after Romney.
And, as Obama said, he knows Ryan.
During that meeting of House Republicans in 2010, Ryan graciously thanked Obama for showing up to what was clearly a tough audience.
Ryan said at the time he was excited to get invited to the speech at George Washington University. That changed when he heard Obama speak. "What we got was a speech that was excessively partisan, dramatically inaccurate and hopelessly inadequate to addressing our country's pressing fiscal challenges," he said.
ReplyDeleteTo audiences, Obama and Ryan can both operate in a big-message world, but they are both comfortable in the weeds of policies. Even with each other.
When Obama spoke to House Republicans at their own conference in January 2010, he commended Ryan for having put forward "a serious proposal." Obama made clear it had ideas he agreed with and plenty of others "we should have a healthy debate about because I don't agree with them."
The next month, at a health care summit, Obama and Ryan got into a wonky exchange about how to shrink costs to the taxpayer. When Ryan called Obama's vision a "government takeover of health care," Obama responded at length, and the two sounded like they could have debated the points all day.
"There are some strong disagreements on the numbers here, Paul," Obama said, "but I don't want to get too bogged down."
Obama has found himself at constant odds with Ryan and other House Republicans, and tried to make it a campaign approach. "I would love nothing more than to see Congress act so aggressively that I can't campaign against them as a do-nothing Congress," he said in October while pitching his jobs plan.
That sounded a lot like his comments in Iowa on Monday, when he went after Ryan by name, which was his way of going after Romney.
And, as Obama said, he knows Ryan.
During that meeting of House Republicans in 2010, Ryan graciously thanked Obama for showing up to what was clearly a tough audience.