Stumping for Obama with hypothetical education cuts
The numbers presented this afternoon by Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter and U.S. Rep. James Clyburn, the House assistant Democratic leader appeared vexing. They were also hypothetical.
Stumping for Obama with hypothetical education cuts
Chris Brennan
The numbers presented this afternoon by Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter and U.S. Rep. James Clyburn, the House assistant Democratic leader, appeared vexing. They were also hypothetical.
Nutter and Clyburn, stumping for President Obama, said education cuts called for in U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan's budget plan could have a "devastating impact" on students from kindergarten to college. One key factor was left out: Ryan's budget was approved by the Republican-controlled U.S. House in March but then bottled up in the Democratic-controlled U.S. Senate.
A few things have happened since then. Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney tapped Ryan for vice president on Aug. 11. The next day, Romney said in a joint-interview with Ryan on 60 Minutes that his budget plan trumps Ryan's in the campaign.
Ryan, interviewed by an ABC affiliate in Oxford, Ohio last Thursday, said "I'm joining the Romney ticket. It's not the other way around. So I'm supporting the Mitt Romney plan." Ryan, asked if his budget plan could be merged with Romney's budget plan, replied: "Sure."
Clyburn, of South Carolina, today pointed to Romney's public support of Ryan's budget in March, saying the former governor of Massachusetts has "doubled down in his support" by picking the seven-term congressman for his presidential ticket.
"I don't remember hearing Ryan say that these [budget cuts] will not be used," Clyburn said. "What I do remember is Romney saying that he believed in the Ryan plan. I remember that very clearly."
The Obama campaign on Saturday circulated to reporters an email with links to 13 news reports, most of them citing Romney in March supporting Ryan's budget. The message: Romney can't walk back his support for Romney-Ryan budget."
What is your point? This article, particularly the headline, is absurd. Romney is all in on the Ryan cuts. It will be passed by Congress if it goes Republican and Romney is President. He has as much said so as your blog gets around to actually saying. Is there really nothing else to do but write an article that pretends that there's doubt about Romney's support for Ryan, and then goes on to rebut the doubt that you yourself tried to create?— Stan Shapiro- Romney said, "there is not much daylight between Ryan and my policies". The author does not seem to remember that.
Then again the speed with which Romney lies, any writer can get dizzy.— Seed - Nutter is gonna raise all our taxes regardless so hopefully he will have mitt Romney to blame— philafan
- Did the campaign provide an interpreter for Clyburn? If it wasn't for Sheila Jackson Lee, he'd be the dumbest member of the House.— b,ill atkins
- What about "Marbles Mouth" Wasserman- Schultz??? I could listen to her talk all day...she talks like she has her XL sized underwear jammed in her mouth.... — kelprod2
- ..... Which party does Akin belong to? Couple of morons above does not seem to have any idea what they are talking about. — Seed
- The first thing that needs to be done to improve education in this country is to ELIMINATE entirely the federal Department of Education and its borderline criminal ponzi scheme money exchange (taking its cut off the top, of course). 100% of educational funding & responsibility needs to be pushed down to the state level whereby funding can be better directed, managed & accounted for. Romney & Ryan ought to advocate STRONGLY the TOTAL elimination of the federal Department of Education.— kelprod2
- Look how great Alabama, Mississippi and other southern states are doing about running education . — Seed
- the united states spends more money on education per child than any other country in the world. and yet 1/3 of the world's countries produce better educated graduates.
money is not the issue. our deteriorating culture, especially PARENTS, are at fault for the decline of the american education system. you don't need high speed internet and laptops in every classroom for kids to learn how to read and multiply.— Zero - Why is the Mayor wasting his time? Philadelphia's public school district was decimated under his watch - maybe he should be stumping on behalf of the children of Philadelphia instead of the Politician-In-Chief.— CrotchetyOldMan
- "Then again the speed with which Romney lies, any writer can get dizzy".
Then again the speed with which you lie must make your seedie head look like that chick in "The Exorcist"...look it up!!! LOL!!!— sarah89 - Seed...I don't need to see Alabama, Mississippi or other states. All I have to do is look at the psd in the utopian society called Philly. How's that been going?— Just_Recently_Banned
- I know nutter is not talking.. he has cut from his own workers... city workers still doesn have a contract and he is no good look for obama right now! so nutter can cool it with his fake talk about cuts and education he allow his political cronies like dwight evans to ruin the sch district.. if barack knows better he ll tell nutter to chill— noncents
- Sheila Jackson Lee: "Where is the U.S. flag on Mars?" James Clyburn: "You big dummy, that's a Dairy Queen on Mars. The flag is on Southeast Jupiter."— b,ill atkins
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David Gambacorta spent a small eternity writing about cops, drug dealers and serial killers. Now he’s writing about power and politics – which sometimes reminds him of the old crime beat. He joined the Daily News in 2005. And yes, he knows you’re not quite sure how to pronounce his last name. E-mail tips to gambacd@phillynews.com
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Jan Ransom, a native New Yorker, joined the Daily News in 2010 after graduating from Howard University. She has since written about the difficulty of filing police complaints, tax deadbeats and life after violent home invasions. She joined the Daily News City Hall Bureau in 2011 and has plunged headfirst into reporting on administration budget battles and City Council shenanigans. E-mail tips to ransomj@phillynews.com
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Sean Collins Walsh is from Bucks County and went to Northwestern University. He joined the Daily News copy desk in 2012 and now covers the Nutter administration. Before that, he interned at papers including The New York Times, The Dallas Morning News and The Seattle Times. E-mail tips to walshSE@phillynews.com
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