Tag: Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan’s Private Sector Experience: Driving the Weinermobile in College
True story: Paul Ryan’s only real for-profit, private-sector job was in college as a salesman for Oscar Meyer, for whom he drove Wienermobile at least once:
Flashback: Romney VP Pick Paul Ryan Calls Romneycare and the Heritage Foundation’s Individual Mandate a ‘Fatal Conceit’
The Romney campaign underwent heavy bombardment from its own right flank this week after it flip-flopped from its longtime stance of pretending that Romneycare does not exist to promoting it as a solution for enabling laid-off workers to keep health-insurance coverage after they lose their jobs.
But now that Romney has picked Rep. Paul Ryan to be his running mate, the campaign is going to have to somehow walk back Ryan’s thorough trashing of Romneycare — including the individual mandate, which was created at the Heritage Foundation, a think tank so right wing that it sponsors Rush Limbaugh’s show — including his labeling of the system as a “fatal conceit.” Transcript follows:
GOP VP Nominee Paul Ryan Voted in Lockstep with George Bush to Explode U.S. Debt
At a closed-door fundraiser on April 14, 2011, Pres.Obama criticized Republicans in Congress for using the budget process to “enact their political agenda under the guise of cutting spending.” He singled out Rep. Paul Ryan, chairman of the House budget committee and now Mitt Romney’s nominee for vice president, saying:
PRES. OBAMA: When Paul Ryan says his priority is to make sure, you know, he’s just being America’s accountant, trying to be responsible …This is the same guy who voted for two wars that were unpaid for, voted for the Bush tax cuts that were unpaid for, voted for the prescription drug bill that cost as much as my health care bill — but wasn’t paid for. So it’s not on the level.
Politifact rated the president’s statement as “Mostly True”:
Constituent Arrested for Confronting GOP Rep. Ryan at Town Hall
And Ryan makes a joke about it.
Paul Ryan’s Kill-Medicare Plan Has Republicans on the Run
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And, yes, Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin is now the most unpopular Republican holding elected office, according to a Bloomberg poll. Only Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin are less popular.
At about the 3:00 mark, O’Donnell runs a clip from May 31 of a right-wing radio show host based in St. Augustine kicking an establishment Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate seat held by Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson off his show after the pol weaseled around and would not come out in support of the Ryan plan. In many states, this politician’s astoundingly bad performance would be a career-ender. Transcript follows:
GOP Continues to Spotlight White Males
Jeb Bush’s recent plea for his party to pay more attention to its Latino members seems to have fallen on deaf ears. Their selection of a white guy Midwesterner to perform the Republican rebuttal to the State of the Union address ignored rising star sunbelt Latinos, including New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio.
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) will give the speech, which according to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, will deal with economics.
“Paul Ryan has spent the better part of the last two years explaining exactly why the Democrat agenda has been so bad for jobs and the economy, and why we need to ditch the government-driven approach in favor of creative, common-sense solutions that put the American people back in charge.
Maybe Gov. Bobby Jindal’s poor showing reinforced the natural Republican inclination to stick with white guys
Republicans apparently noticed the economic crisis after the inauguration of Pres. Obama. It slipped past them when they were voting to allow Pres. George W. Bush to run up the deficit to unprecedented levels in order to wage war on a country that had not directly threatened us. They also must have been confused when they voted for Bush’s plan to spend $700 billion to bail out banks and other large corporations that had invested in mortgage-backed securities. Bush signed that Republican-approved law on Oct. 3, 2008.
Rubio, like Rep. Michele Bachmann (GOP/TEA-Minn.), plans his own State of the Union rebuttal for the benefit of his followers.
