Obama, Ryan clash in White House meeting on debt

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-white-house-gop-meeting-20110601,0,167966.story

Reporting from Washington —

Republican Rep. Paul Ryan and President Obama got into a pointed exchange over GOP plans to overhaul the Medicare system, with Ryan suggesting at a private meeting at the White House that the president had engaged in "demagoguery."

Obama met with members of the House Republican caucus in the East Room on Wednesday in an attempt to bridge differences over spending and the debt limit.

Democrats have gained traction in the debate with Republicans by painting Ryan's Medicare proposal as a "voucher" program that would harm senior citizens. An iconic TV ad put out by a liberal group depicts a man pushing an elderly wheelchair-bound woman off a cliff. The message is that Republicans wish to privatize Medicare.

Ryan, the House Budget Committee chairman, got a standing ovation from his colleagues during the meeting.

due to their support of his shitty program.

wah.

I doubt Ryan even knows what it means. Someone wrote it on a 3 x 5 card for him. He just reads from the card. What an ASS.

Ryan = Demagoger in Chief.

What an ASS.

It's the truth!!!!

if true.....these guys have no respect for the office of the president. it also shows they treat the president of the united states of america as their man servant.

these guys hate you,they really really hate you barack.

the President and for the Office will finally make Obama mad enough to go after them...?

Nah

:D

going on, the RW would have had a cow about the disrespect of the CIC.

with the Ryan Catfood Budget. They are now holding a gun to the heads of their own and saying to the Dems "stop or I'll shoot." I say we let them shoot and in doing so double down on their biggest blunder in 15 years.

The Times headline implies that President Obama and Reprehensible Ryan are somehow presenting equivalent but differing viewpoints. Typical of the MSM, no investigative reporting, no recognition of one of the elephants in the room - that these two people represent ethically opposing world views, and those views are NOT equivalent.

I'm sure I read all about here on DU a couple of months back