What the Romney-Ryan ticket means for the middle class
The Ed Show August 13, 2012
Mitt Romney's selection of Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate creates a clear distinction in the Presidential election of two differing visions for America. The Nation's John Nichols and Ed Schultz explain those two visions and what they mean for the middle class.
Rep. Paul Ryan's controversial proposed budget, which would make big cuts to the big three, has the Republicans out on offense now that he's the VP pick-- they're lying about the $700 billion cut President Obama made to the program. Ed Schultz breaks down the truth and talks to Sen. Bernie Sanders about what a Romney/Ryan ticket would mean for the poor and middle class.
Rocky reception as Ryan leaves Republican media bubble
The Rachel Maddow Show August 13, 2012
Rachel Maddow describes the contrast between the unpopularity of Paul Ryan's Medicare plan with Americans nationally and his unblighted celebrity within the Republican media-sphere, and runs through the litany of campaigning Republicans trying to distance themselves from Ryan's policies. Dan Rather, anchor and managing editor of "Dan Rather Reports" on AXS TV joins for analysis.
Rachel Maddow reviews Paul Ryan's extreme positions on women's health and choice, from his sponsorship of federal legislation to declare that human life, "personhood," begins at fertilization, to his sponsorship of a federal bill to force women seeking an abortion to undergo an unnecessary medical ultrasound procedure regardless of whether they want it or their doctor deems it necessary.
Ohio Secretary of State cancels Maddow interview as spotlight intensifies
The Rachel Maddow Show August 13, 2012
Rachel Maddow reminds viewers of the discrepancy in voting hours in Ohio depending on whether voters are in a Democratic or Republican county and points out that as local media attention has intensified on the issue, Ohio Secretary Of State Jon Husted, who had agreed to be interviewed by Maddow, has backed out of the booking.
Rachel Maddow recaps the Republican history of failed attacks on Social Security, from Newt Gingrich's voucher idea to George W. Bush's "mandate" to privatize the program, to Paul Ryan's multiple iterations of privatizing and voucherizing Medicare and Social security in his "roadmap" plans, and the burden they've placed on the Romney campaign.
Americans not eager to gamble on Social Security, Medicare privatization
The Rachel Maddow Show August 13, 2012
Jared Bernstein, senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, talks with Rachel Maddow about why the desire by Republicans like Paul Ryan to privatize Social Security and Medicare is a bad idea to which the American public is resistant.
Ryan selection exacerbates Romney's tax return problem
The Rachel Maddow Show August 13, 2012
Rachel Maddow explains how the choice of Paul Ryan as a running mate not only keeps the question of Mitt Romney's withheld tax returns alive, but rubs salt in the wound with the fact that under Paul Ryan's budget plan, Mitt Romney would pay nearly zero federal taxes.