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Steve King contradicts himself in support of Todd Akin
As he chimed in supporting embattled Missouri senatorial candidate Todd Akin, Iowa Rep. Steve King (R-IA) may have walked into his own verbal minefield. While defending Akin, a fellow Republican, to KMEG-TV Monday, King doubled down on his defense of Akin and vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan’s bill that would ban…
Ryan channels Palin in 2008: I’m ‘clinging to my guns and my religion’
In a campaign speech that appeared to be a throwback to the 2008 presidential election, Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan said on Tuesday that he was “happy to be clinging to my guns and my religion,” and even gave a shout out to “Joe the Plumber.” Ryan told supporters…
Paul Ryan was for stimulus spending before he was against it
A decade before becoming Mitt Romney’s running mate and years before he emerged as one of the most prominent anti-stimulus spending conservatives in Congress, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) once gave a forceful defense of the same spending he now decries. While he’s strongly opposed active government spending under President Obama,…
Paul Ryan stumps with his mother to combat allegations he wants to dismantle Medicare
Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan campaigned with his mother on Saturday to combat allegations he wants to dismantle Medicare, a politically sensitive public health program for seniors. “Like a lot of Americans, when I think about Medicare it’s not the program. It’s not a bunch of numbers. It’s what…
Ryan: Romney’s background is ‘starting up small businesses’
At a campaign event in Glen Allen, Virginia on Friday, Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan said that Mitt Romney, who founded Bain Capital, had proven he knew that small businesses were the backbone of the American economy because he had started “small businesses” himself. “[Mitt Romney] has proven, through…
‘Rage Against the Machine’ guitarist smacks down Paul Ryan’s compliment
The running mate of presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney told The New York Times this week that one of his favorite bands is “Rage Against the Machine.” But it’s not their lyrics that Paul Ryan likes, mind you — it’s just the music. In an editorial response published Friday in…
Google searches for ‘Paul Ryan shirtless’ soar
Suddenly, even political foes approve of Republican vice presidential pick Paul Ryan — for his looks. Until being picked as Mitt Romney’s running mate, Ryan was almost exclusively mentioned in connection with his conservative ideas on solving America’s debt crisis. But his brawn, not brain, is hot now. Google searches…
Lilly Ledbetter: Paul Ryan scares me to death
Thursday on MSNBC, women’s equality activist Lilly Ledbetter blasted Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) for voting against the Fair Pay Act, which was named after her. “Paul Ryan is very pleased with himself that he voted against the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act,” she said. “That’s for families. That’s voting against…
Paul Ryan ‘grew up on Ayn Rand’
Ayn Rand is the high priestess of undiluted capitalism and a champion of looking after number one. With an estimated 25m copies of her books in print, including Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, her ideas about small government and unfettered markets still resonate in conservative circles, with a young Paul…
Romney: My Medicare plan is ‘the same if not identical’ to Ryan’s
After some initial confusion, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is making it clear that his plan for Medicare is “the same if not identical” to a proposal by Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) that Democrats say would end the program as it exists today. After Romney announced on Saturday that…
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