{"id":15773,"date":"2012-09-07T14:17:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T18:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=15773"},"modified":"2012-09-07T14:17:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T18:17:00","slug":"ryan%e2%80%99s-democratic-stand-in-on-challenges-of-prepping-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/15773\/ryan%e2%80%99s-democratic-stand-in-on-challenges-of-prepping-biden\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan\u2019s Democratic Stand-In on Challenges of Prepping Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/atr.rollcall.com\/chris-van-hollen-talks-house-races-and-playing-paul-ryan-in-debate\/ \" target=\"_blank\">Chris Van Hollen<\/a> (D-MD) told Roll Call what the biggest challenge is while preparing Vice President Joe Biden to debate Paul Ryan:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI sit next to Paul Ryan in the Budget Committee day in and day out,\u201d he said on his preparation for the role.\u201dSo, I know how he presents the Republican case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe presents a plan that\u2019s bad for the country with a smile, so I think the challenge is dealing with presentation of the plan, explaining why the plan is bad for the country,\u201d he added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With all due respect to Rep. Van Hollen, his biggest challenge is helping Joe Biden explain how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/articles\/314024\/president-obama-s-700-billion-medicare-problem-james-c-capretta \" target=\"_blank\">ripping out more than $700 million from Medicare<\/a> to pay for ObamaCare is a better policy than Ryan\u2019s idea to convert future Medicare benefits into a fiscally sustainable premium support voucher.<\/p>\n<p>It would take all of Bill Clinton\u2019s rhetorical sleight-of-hand to pull off that feat.\u00a0 Instead, Van Hollen is working with the gaffe-prone Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck overcoming that handicap, Congressman.\u00a0 You\u2019ll need it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) told Roll Call what the biggest challenge is while preparing Vice President Joe Biden to debate Paul Ryan: \u201cI sit next to Paul Ryan in the Budget Committee day in and day out,\u201d he said on his preparation for the role.\u201dSo, I know how he presents the Republican case. \u201cHe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2033,1193,3765,1972,3308,101,235,35,802,2729],"class_list":["post-15773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2033","tag-campaign","tag-chris-van-hollen","tag-debate","tag-health","tag-joe-biden","tag-medicare","tag-obamacare","tag-paul-ryan","tag-vice-president"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15773"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15777,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15773\/revisions\/15777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}