Does Paul Ryan Know What’s in His Budget? If the news media had to work for a living, this is what they would all be asking right now.
The reason is simple. The projections the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) made for Representative Ryan’s budget imply that he literally wants to shut down the federal government. His budget implies that after three decades the federal government will have no money to spend on health research, education, highways, airports, and other infrastructure, the Food and Drug Administration and most other activities that we associate with the federal government. His budget has money for Social Security, Medicare and other health programs and the Defense Department.
That’s it. This is not a vicious anti-Ryan attack coming from hyper-partisan Democrats. The table shows that in 2040, Representative Ryan would allot an amount equal to 4.75 percent of GDP to all these other areas of government including defense spending. The defense budget is currently a bit over 4.0 percent of GDP. 2002 VIDEO: Hypocrite Paul Ryan supported economic stimulus under Bush. Paul Ryan Cites War Votes as Foreign Policy Experience. Romney Campaign Works Feverishly to Project Relaxed Image. Their craft is slick packaging and eye candy that audiences consume by the millions.
Their latest project? Selling the story in prime time. Working from makeshift offices at a hockey arena here, a team of Romney advisers, producers and designers has been staging and scripting a program for the Republican National Convention that they say they hope will accomplish something a year of campaigning has failed to do: paint a full and revealing portrait of who Mitt Romney is. Instead of glossing over Mr. Romney’s career as a private equity executive, they will highlight it in convention videos and speeches as the kind of experience that has prepared him to be the economic steward the country needs. And rather than shy away from Mr. The campaign aides are determined to overcome perceptions that Mr. Conventions no longer command the kind of public attention they once did, and their very slickness can conspire against addressing the kinds of perception problems Mr. Mr. Mr. Still, Mr. Ed Schultz Asks Who's the Bigger Liar, Romney or Ryan? Romney to ax art funding.
Politico has excerpts from an upcoming Mitt Romney interview in Fortune magazine, in which the Republican presidential candidate expounds on his plan to shrink the federal government and reduce spending.
Depressingly, but not surprisingly, he targets arts funding, saying: [F]irst there are programs I would eliminate. Obamacare being one of them but also various subsidy programs — the Amtrak subsidy, the PBS subsidy, the subsidy for the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities. Some of these things, like those endowment efforts and PBS I very much appreciate and like what they do in many cases, but I just think they have to stand on their own rather than receiving money borrowed from other countries, as our government does on their behalf.
Ryan: Romney's Background Is 'Starting Up Small Businesses' Rachel Maddow Calls Out Ryan's Hypocrisy on Stimulus Spending. One of Ryan's 'Favorite' Bands Rages Against Class War. Tom Morello: 'Paul Ryan Is the Embodiment of the Machine Our Music Rages Against' Tom Morello & Paul Ryan At Odds As Rage Against The Machine Guitarist Rejects His Appreciation. Paul Ryan has previously cited Rage Against the Machine as his favorite band, but the group's guitarist isn't returning the niceties.
In a blistering op-ed published Thursday night on Rolling Stone's website, Tom Morello blasts Mitt Romney's new VP choice as "the embodiment of the machine our music rages against. " In painting Ryan as antithetical to progress, Morello compares the Congressman's appreciation of RATM to Charles Manson's love for The Beatles and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's liking for Bruce Springsteen. At the heart of Morello's distaste for Ryan is "his guiding vision of shifting revenue more radically to the one percent. " He goes on to say Ryan has plenty of "rage," but claims its "A rage against women, a rage against immigrants, a rage against workers, a rage against gays, a rage against the poor, a rage against the environment.
" The Grammy-winning guitarist has a history of outspoken activism. Ryan Begins Attacking Romney's Record As Massachusetts Governor. DENVER—Displaying the tough no-nonsense talk and firm commitment to conservative principles that led to his selection as the Republican vice presidential candidate, Rep.
Paul Ryan (R-WI) has taken to the campaign trail and begun viciously attacking the record of running mate and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney. Within hours of joining the GOP ticket Saturday, Ryan went on the offensive against the GOP candidate, and he has continued to cast him as a “pro-abortion crusader” and “shameless political chameleon” in stump speeches throughout Wisconsin, Iowa, and Colorado. At town hall meetings and fundraising events, Ryan has repeatedly referred to Romney’s governorship as “disastrous,” even going so far as to warn voters that the Republican candidate was an unreliable and dangerous choice for president.
She added, “We’re just glad he’s in our corner.” Paul Ryan Wondering If He Should Have Told Romney About This Guy He's Dating. DES MOINES, IA—After appearing at his first solo campaign event since becoming the presumptive Republican nominee for vice president, Rep.
Paul Ryan (R-WI) reportedly began wondering if he ought to have told running mate Mitt Romney about the man he’s been dating recently. "I guess I probably should have mentioned Elliot when Mitt and his staff talked to me last Friday," Ryan said to himself Monday, adding that it had only been a couple months since he and his boyfriend started dating exclusively and that the pair were still "in the fun, early phase" of the relationship. "I mean, we're not super serious at this point.
We see each other a few times a week at most.