About the only thing worse for the democrats than Paul Ryan being chosen as the VP pick would have been if he were chosen as the Presidential nominee.  They are running around trying desperately to make this “scary Paul Ryan is out to kill grandma and end Medicare” meme stick and it’s not working too well.  How many times have you seen a CNN anchor let a democrat spokesperson off the hook by not challenging a ludicrous claim that people know is false?  Not too often.  Well, here’s Wolf Blitzer taking Debbie Wasserman Schultz to task for trying to misrepresent Ryan’s plan.

Of course what the democrats would like to do is sweep the current administration’s actions over Medicare under the table, but if one looks at the Affordable Care Act (a/k/a Obamacare), it defunds Medicare to the tune of over $700 Billion over the next 10 years. And we have heard a single chirp from the democrats nor the left-leaning main media outlets about that. Why is that not bad? In the above cliff, Wasserman Schultz tries to claim that the people who paid in aren’t guaranteed of a return to cover their medical costs – well, how does that work when the candidate she’s nominating and supporting removes $700B from the program over 10 years? This, of course, puts lefty “opinion anchors” all in a tizzy:
While the position of Vice President has a storied past, varying from almost non-essential and silent to very influential, it will be interesting to see how a VP Paul Ryan would take the role. Given his push to improve the economic position of this country, I wouldn’t be surprised to see him seize upon the role of President of the Senate and use that to drive action into a body that has been ineffective under the current administration.