Getting to know PAUL RYAN!

Posted: 8/13/12 at 11:37am

If the Paul Ryan budget had been approved when he introduced it, Mitt Romney's tax bill last year would have dropped to about 1% of his income!
No wonder Mitt loves him!

Posted: 8/13/12 at 11:40am

Paul Ryan owes his college career to what he calls "Socialism!

"From the age of 16, when his 55-year-old father died of a heart attack, until he was 18, Ryan received Social Security payments, which, according to a lengthy profile in WI Magazine, he put away for college....So Paul Ryan benefitted from the largesse of big liberal government. Government that he now wants to take away from the rest of us."
You didn't build that, Paul

Posted: 8/13/12 at 11:42am

He takes bribes!
$60,000 worth

[Wynbish]

Posted: 8/13/12 at 11:42am

Can I vote for this Paul Ryan?



And it's taken me since Saturday to remember where I've heard that name. As the World Turns! Updated On: 8/13/12 at 11:42 AM

Posted: 8/13/12 at 11:47am

He hates "Big Government," but except for a stint at McDonald's in high school and a summer job at his family business in college, Paul Ryan hasn't drawn a non-government paycheck in his life.


He's spent the last 25 years in Washington- a typical outsider! Updated On: 8/13/12 at 11:47 AM

[romantico]

Posted: 8/13/12 at 11:47am

Paul Ryan loved Ayn Rand, before he said he didn't

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-vp-paul-ryan-ayn-rand-20120811,0,1175099.story

Back in 2005, an up-and-coming lawmaker named Paul Ryan credited the polemical novelist and libertarian Ayn Rand as a central inspiration for his entry into public life. Ryan toiled in those days in relative obscurity, a well-respected but low-profile member of the House of Representatives.

By the spring of 2012, the boyish congressman had become a Republican star, widely named as a possible vice presidential pick. He also had become considerably less comfortable being linked to the controversial Rand, an atheist with a tartly Darwinian world view.

As Ryan and the Republicans look to define the new vice presidential choice's brand, part of the commentary will be about just how Randian (read: unsympathetic to the weak) the candidate really is.

Updated On: 8/13/12 at 11:47 AM

Posted: 8/13/12 at 11:50am

The Romney/Ryan ticket has ZERO foreign policy experience or knowledge. Zip. Zilch. Nada
Look at Fox Spin! Spin, Fox, SPIN!

[romantico]

Posted: 8/13/12 at 11:50am

Paul Ryan Only Passed 2 Bills Into Law In More Than A Decade

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/12/paul-ryan-bills_n_1769816.html

Posted: 8/13/12 at 11:50am

Getting to know you, getting to know ALL about you....

[SonofRobbieJ]

Posted: 8/13/12 at 11:53am

Wynbish,

That is NOT Paul Ryan. That is Todd Manning of Llanview, PA. Perhaps he spent time elsewhere...but ONLY TODD MATTERS.

As for the other Paul Ryan, he's just a delight. And by 'delight,' I mean Objectivist Douchebag Extraordinaire.

[Wynbish]

Posted: 8/13/12 at 12:01pm

I vote for Todd Manning!

Truth be told, I mostly really liked Paul when that other guy was playing him.



I couldn't get that much into Roger's Paul, since he will always be Todd.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 8/13/12 at 12:18pm

"So Paul Ryan benefitted from the largesse of big liberal government. Government that he now wants to take away from the rest of us."

How's that 700 billion Medicare cut that Obama made working out for you?

[madbrian]

Posted: 8/13/12 at 12:31pm

Just so we're completely accurate, the infamous Ryan budget KEEPS the Medicare cuts from the Affordable Care Act. Romney/Ryan promise to repeal the Affordable Care Act, then replace Medicare with a voucher program. That should play well in Florida.

And again, just so we're clear, the allegedly fiscally conservative Ryan voted FOR the unfunded Medicare Prescription expansion under GWB, which added TRILLIONS to the deficit.

Updated On: 8/13/12 at 12:31 PM

Posted: 8/13/12 at 12:51pm

Yeah, I don't get the Republican talking point that somehow Obama is cutting Medicare. Those services will be handled through the Affordable Health care program.

[SonofRobbieJ]

Posted: 8/13/12 at 1:13pm

And TARP! Don't forget he voted for TARP!

But he was just takin' one for the team!

Posted: 8/13/12 at 1:27pm

MY talking point is that Paul Ryan is the least qualified VP pick in history. Can anyone look at this Eddie Munster looking mofo and think "Oh yeah, he's ready to be president"?

[madbrian]

Posted: 8/13/12 at 1:31pm

"MY talking point is that Paul Ryan is the least qualified VP pick in history."

I have to disagree, particularly in light of Palin. I may disagree with Ryan on just about every issue, but everything I've read about him is that he's a hard working, serious legislator. I have to wonder how a defeat this year will hurt his long-term national prospects.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 8/13/12 at 1:43pm

Im also curious how this is going to play out in Arizona which is another "God's Waiting Room" State.

[Wynbish]

Posted: 8/13/12 at 1:52pm

He can see Michigan from his house!

Posted: 8/13/12 at 2:23pm

But he has had absolutely no experience as an executive, no experience as a "real world" adult, no experience (or interest even) in any foreign policy. His "experience" as a legislator has been all in the abstract- he's not the kind of guy who builds coalitions or gets stuff done- as pointed out before, he's only had two bills ratified in 14 years. He's a policy wonk through and through.

Palin was indeed awful- and I hesitated before calling Ryan the "least qualified" ever, but as horrible as Palin is, she HAS served as a governor. It wasn't until she emerged on the national scene that we saw how childish and ignorant she was; Ryan embarrassed himself in 2009 when he basically behaved like a ten year old during Obama's budget address. I won't run down all the times Ryan has had a moment in the sun and embarrassed himself, this article does that for me.

Basically, Romney should be able to foresee this guy WILL embarrass him on the national scene.


Obama peeled Paul Ryan apart.... Updated On: 8/13/12 at 02:23 PM

Posted: 8/13/12 at 2:25pm

Personally I can't wait until a 52 year old gets up at a rally and asks Paul Ryan "I have paid into medicare all my life. If you are elected, what happens to all that money? What am I supposed to do?"

[Gothampc]

Posted: 8/13/12 at 2:29pm

Seriously you guys with the "no experience" crap are hilarious. Obama had zero experience when he entered the White House, except if smoking crack, faking your way through Columbia and Harvard and "writing" two autobiographies full of lies counts as experience.

Updated On: 8/13/12 at 02:29 PM

Posted: 8/13/12 at 2:30pm

Obama on the Paul Ryan budget earlier this year. This is specifically why I love this president! He lays it out so everyone knows:

It’s a vision that says up to 50 million Americans have to lose their health insurance in order for us to reduce the deficit. Who are these 50 million Americans? Many are somebody’s grandparents -- may be one of yours -- who wouldn’t be able to afford nursing home care without Medicaid. Many are poor children. Some are middle-class families who have children with autism or Down’s syndrome. Some of these kids with disabilities are -- the disabilities are so severe that they require 24-hour care. These are the Americans we’d be telling to fend for themselves.

And worst of all, this is a vision that says even though Americans can’t afford to invest in education at current levels, or clean energy, even though we can’t afford to maintain our commitment on Medicare and Medicaid, we can somehow afford more than $1 trillion in new tax breaks for the wealthy. Think about that.

In the last decade, the average income of the bottom 90 percent of all working Americans actually declined. Meanwhile, the top 1 percent saw their income rise by an average of more than a quarter of a million dollars each. That’s who needs to pay less taxes?

They want to give people like me a $200,000 tax cut that’s paid for by asking 33 seniors each to pay $6,000 more in health costs. That’s not right. And it’s not going to happen as long as I’m President. (Applause.)

This vision is less about reducing the deficit than it is about changing the basic social compact in America. Ronald Reagan’s own budget director said, there’s nothing “serious” or “courageous” about this plan. There’s nothing serious about a plan that claims to reduce the deficit by spending a trillion dollars on tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires. And I don't think there’s anything courageous about asking for sacrifice from those who can least afford it and don’t have any clout on Capitol Hill. That's not a vision of the America I know.

The America I know is generous and compassionate. It’s a land of opportunity and optimism. Yes, we take responsibility for ourselves, but we also take responsibility for each other; for the country we want and the future that we share. We’re a nation that built a railroad across a continent and brought light to communities shrouded in darkness. We sent a generation to college on the GI Bill and we saved millions of seniors from poverty with Social Security and Medicare. We have led the world in scientific research and technological breakthroughs that have transformed millions of lives. That’s who we are. This is the America that I know. We don’t have to choose between a future of spiraling debt and one where we forfeit our investment in our people and our country.

Posted: 8/13/12 at 2:31pm

OK Goth sell me: Let's stack up Paul Ryan's experience against Obama. Tell me what he's done.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 8/13/12 at 2:32pm

^^You first with Obama's resume.