Getting to know PAUL RYAN!

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!

He takes bribes!
$60,000 worth

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

But he was just takin' one for the team!

"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.

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He can see Michigan from his house!

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?"

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.

^^You first with Obama's resume.

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