If I lived in one of the 3 toss up states I meant be tempted.
On Saturday, August 11, 2012, MJ wrote:
-- On Saturday, August 11, 2012, MJ wrote:
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Romney/Ryan
Posted by Laurence Vance on August 11, 2012 06:29 AM
It's official. The Republican ticket will be Romney/Ryan. Paul Ryan is the chairman of the House Budget Committee. See my analysis of his bloated budgets here, here, and here.
Ryan recently said: "I am the budget chairman. I am a Republican. I am a conservative. I have been pointing out the big flaws of all of the taxing and the spending that has been going on around here." I guess that is why he supported bailouts, No Child Left Behind, war, and the Patriot Act. See an analysis of his record here.
Ryan is the perfect match to Romney since he supported the Republican version of health care reform known as the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 or Bushcare.
Re: Romney/Ryan
Posted by Daniel McAdams on August 11, 2012 06:52 AM
Right you are, Laurence: Paul Ryan has an undeserved reputation as a deficit hawk. His much touted budget proposal was a joke -- as Lew said, Don't Confuse Paul Ryan With Ron Paul. As Ron Paul points out in the above link, no government agencies were to be removed and there was only a chance of a balanced budget after 30 years.
The left-wing and right-wing media will do their part, to be sure, to each reinforce their own stereotypes of Ryan with absolutely no analysis at all. To the right he is warrior against big government, to the left he is a monster who will starve the children for fear of government spending.
Of course on the biggest budget issues, Ryan spends more than a drunken sailor. See this from the RLC analysis that Laurence linked to:
Conclusion: Romney's VP Pick = Pro-War Big Government Republicanism, 2.0
- Paul Ryan on War and Intervention Abroad
- -Voted YES on authorizing military force in Iraq. (Oct 2002)
- -Voted YES on emergency $78B for war in Iraq & Afghanistan. (Apr 2003)
- -Voted YES on declaring Iraq part of War on Terror with no exit date. (Jun 2006)
- -Voted NO on redeploying US troops out of Iraq starting in 90 days. (May 2007)
In that he is perfect for the Republican Party. The self-deluded would do well to wake up and smell the coffee. This is not an aberration, this is the party.
EDIT: I should add that Ryan voted to allow the president to indefinitely detain American citizens without trial, when not assassinating them via drones (NDAA 2012/2013).
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