Ryan: Obama has 'record of failure'
Romney selects Ryan
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WASHINGTON — His selection just hours old, Republican Mitt Romney’s vice presidential pick, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, was already tearing into President Barack Obama’s “record of failure.”
Moving into a role as Romney’s chief attack dog, Ryan declared Saturday that the nation under Obama’s leadership is struggling through the “worst economic recovery in 70 years.”
“No one disputes President Obama inherited a difficult situation,” Ryan said, standing at Romney’s side for the first time as the Republican presidential ticket on the USS Wisconsin, a retired battleship. “And, in his first two years, with his party in complete control of Washington, he passed nearly every item on his agenda. But that didn’t make things better.”
Romney selected the 42-year-old Ryan, a seven-term congressman, from a short list that included Ohio Sen. Rob Portman, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell.
Ryan is the architect of a conservative and intensely controversial long-term budget plan to remake Medicare and cut trillions in federal spending.
His selection immediately thrusts those budget plans into the forefront of the presidential contest.
Obama campaign manager Jim Messina called Ryan is the “architect of the radical Republican House budget” proposal and said the plan “would end Medicare as we know it.”
“We won’t duck the tough issues,” Ryan said. “We will lead.”
The congressman blamed Obama for the nation’s unemployment rate that has exceeded 8 percent for more than three years, the longest run since the Great Depression.
“Higher unemployment, declining incomes and crushing debt is a not a new normal. It is a result of misguided policies,” Ryan said.
Romney initially made his announcement to supporters via a phone app. “Mitt’s Choice for VP is Paul Ryan,” it said and implored backers to spread the word.
One campaign official said Romney had settled on Ryan as his pick on Aug. 1, more than a week ago, and informed Beth Myers, the longtime aide who had shepherded the secretive process that led to the selection. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to provide details.
Ryan is chairman of the House Budget Committee, and primary author of conservative tax -and-spending blueprints that the tea party-infused Republican majority approved over Democratic opposition in 2011 and again in 2012.
It envisions transforming Medicare into a program in which future seniors would receive government checks that they could use to purchase health insurance. Under the current program, the government directly pays doctors, hospitals and other health care providers.
Ryan and other supporters say the change is needed to prevent the program from financial calamity. Critics argue it would impose ever-increasing costs on seniors.
Other elements of the budget plan would cut projected spending for Medicaid, which provides health care for the poor, as well as food stamps, student loans and other social programs that Obama and Democrats have pledged to defend.
Ryan’s budget plan died in the Democrat-controlled Senate.
“Our rights come from nature and from God, not government,” Ryan said. “That’s who we are. We promise equal opportunity, not equal outcomes.”
Aug 13, 2012 at 10:27 a.m.
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concerned,Facts can be twisted to say what you need. It is a stretch to say that Obama's spending is the lowest since the 60's. The % and$ amt of spending gain under Obama tells a different story. The twisting of facts will continue under both candidates and the truth will need to be sorted out by the voters.
Aug 13, 2012 at 10:20 a.m.
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http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/...
Aug 13, 2012 at 8:55 a.m.
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Whats funny is posting of the truth you then claim is complaining.
Aug 13, 2012 at 8:49 a.m.
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That's funny retiredairforce. Complaining about Wiki when you post links from the American Enterprise Institute. Funny.
Aug 13, 2012 at 8:41 a.m.
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RAF, the one thing that your graph doesn't take into account is the great recession. The GDP was smaller than it was under Bush. With a smaller GDP, the same budget would appear to spend more, however, that's ignore other factors.
Aug 13, 2012 at 1:51 a.m.
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Yep the editable wiki, that nails it every time...lol
Aug 13, 2012 at 1:23 a.m.
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The person who cited the American Enterprise Institute, just minutes earlier wrote, "Big surprise, the same leftest claims are still being repeated, no matter how questionable the sources."
The American Enterprise Institute is a neo-conservative organization. "Some AEI scholars are considered to be some of the leading architects of the second Bush administration's public policy.[7] More than twenty AEI scholars and fellows served either in a Bush administration policy post or on one of the government's many panels and commissions" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_En... ]
Aug 13, 2012 at 12:39 a.m.
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Actually, the Obama spending binge really did happen
http://www.aei-ideas.org/2012/05/actuall...
Aug 12, 2012 at 10:25 p.m.
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thanks for the link, concernedwi...
Aug 12, 2012 at 9:11 p.m.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/story/obama-s...
Obama has the lowest rate of spending, since the 1960's. Bush and Reagan were two of the worst.
Aug 12, 2012 at 7 p.m.
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so basically ryan has done nothing for his district except collect a check and buy 300 dollar bottles of wine.. conservative values I guess.
Aug 12, 2012 at 4:14 p.m.
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If Ryan's plan for "voucher's" is so great then why not implement it as soon as possible? Oh--I know--secure the old vote as nothing will change for them but us 50 and younger crowd will continue to pay in much more then we will ever get so the ones that didn't even pay in a fraction of what they have sucked off the government can continue to get their "entitlements". Nice.
Aug 12, 2012 at 3:28 p.m.
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What's amusing is the press has found out Ryan has has two bills passed into law in 13 years. One was reducing a tax on arrows, and the other was renaming the post office on Milton. What accomplishments!
Aug 12, 2012 at 2:56 p.m.
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Obama has 'record of failure' - period, end of sentence.
Aug 12, 2012 at 2:55 p.m.
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Let's not forget that 10 trillion of the increase are due to Obama's policies, not Bush.
Aug 12, 2012 at 2:33 p.m.
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Oblamer, let's not forget that 4 trillion of the increase are due to Bush's policies, not Obama.
Aug 12, 2012 at 12:35 p.m.
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Ryan must not remember that the righties claimed up and down that the Iraq war would pay for itself:
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S6RzXd4G...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uFjr0Vr1...
All the teeth gnashing about how horrible a country we have now due to the policies of the Obama administration is about as hollow as a rotten log, only less useful.
Aug 12, 2012 at 12:19 p.m.
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http://gazettextra.com/photos/2012/aug/1...
Great pic
Aug 12, 2012 at 11:36 a.m.
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Let's see them tax returns Harry Reid. How did you get so filthy rich as a lovely Senator
Aug 12, 2012 at 11:18 a.m.
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let's see them taxes mittens.. why hide your brilliant career of corporate raiding.
Aug 12, 2012 at 11:12 a.m.
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Oblamer
"""Oh and illegals get to stay here while we suffer with unemployed Americans....."""
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LIAR!!!
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"""As ABC news reported in December: "Since 2009, the annual average number of deportations has approached 400,000, according to the Department of Homeland Security. That’s double the annual average during President George W. Bush’s first term and 30 percent higher than the average when he left office."""
Aug 12, 2012 at 11:09 a.m.
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20 straight months of job growth = failure... HUH
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I would consider Romney if he can demonstrate a clear difference between himself and GW on economics. GW's economics created the mess, YES, I still blame him, and I don't want to go back.
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Demonstrate for me that doing something different than President Obama and different than President GW Bush will make thing improve quicker than they are. Until then, I will take the slow progress over a trip back to 2000. Not willing to live that decade over again.
Aug 12, 2012 at 11:05 a.m.
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Don't forget his increasing lead in the polls. He did that, too. Even Fox News had to cop to that. Yay America!
Aug 12, 2012 at 9:17 a.m.
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At least with Ryan there will be a candidate that has a personality.
Aug 11, 2012 at 2:11 p.m.
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Let's look at Ryan's record. He's voted for trillions upon trillions in government spending which he says he is totally against. So was he for it before he was against it? Maybe he's actually for it and against it at the same time. Looks like he and Mitt make a great combo.
Here's a specific example. Ryan has consistently voted to give the oil industry $4 billion in tax payer funded subsidies. He owns a stake in four different companies that lease land to oil companies. Hmmmmmmmmm. Looks like more of the same from the GOP.
Aug 11, 2012 at 9:49 a.m.
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dal,
What was the consensus you write of? Consensus is defined as:
con·sen·sus (kn-snss)
n.
1. An opinion or position reached by a group as a whole:
2. General agreement or accord
Budget
Wars
Economy
Stimulus/Tarp
Healthcare
Student Loans
GITMO
Cap n Trade
Green Energy
Subsidies
Income Tax rates
What issue do Republicans and Democrats have consensus? What fairytale world do you live in to think there was a "a consensus to negotiate"....
Aug 11, 2012 at 9:40 a.m.
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It is hard to get anything done when the opposition refuses to negotiate a consensus.
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