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Sister Campbell: Ryan budget ‘antithetical to either scripture or sanity’
Sister Simone Campbell, a Catholic nun and executive director of NETWORK, on Monday blasted Republican vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) over his budget plan. “It’s totally antithetical to either scripture or sanity,” she told Current TV host Eliot Spitzer. “We know the saying that if you want to…
Protesters interrupt Ryan in Iowa: ‘Stop the war on the middle class!’
Speaking from the same stage in Iowa where Mitt Romney once declared that “corporation are people,” presumptive Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan found himself on Monday being interrupted by protesters who accused him of waging a “war on the middle class.” During an stump speech at the Iowa State…
Veep Zombie-Eyed Granny Starver
Romney’s middle-of-the-night announcement on Friday of Paul Ryan as his running mate was particularly irritating on a personal level, because I’d been on a late night flight to Seattle and didn’t get the news until 2AM here, which was, of course, 5AM in New York. Everyone has theories about the…
Doocy defends Ryan: ‘What’s the matter with being an ideologue?’
Fox News co-host Steve Doocy on Monday attempted spin Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan’s “ideologue” label as an advantage to Mitt Romney’s campaign. During a series of interviews on Sunday, Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod blasted Ryan’s plan to turn Medicare into a voucher system while skewing tax cuts…
Watch live: Mitt Romney makes campaign stop in Florida
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney made a campaign stop in Florida on Mondday. A Reuters analysis found that Romney’s vice presidential pick of Paul Ryan could be damaging to Republicans in Florida because Ryan’s budget is particularly harsh on Medicare, and the state’s elderly population might object to such cuts.…
Let The Substance Begin!
Paul Ryan is Mitt Romney’s newly-selected running mate, and he has made this election one about substance! How do we know, you might ask? I mean, after all, Romney/Ryan (heretofore referred to as “RomRy” because they are a cute cute platonic anti-gay couple) have been together two days, most of…
Voting record analysis finds Paul Ryan most extreme VP nominee in a century
Rep. Paul Ryan is the most ideologically far-from-center vice presidential nominee since at least 1900, according to one statistical analysis of historical Congressional voting records. Based on the DW-NOMINATE model, Ryan’s record makes him the most extreme nominee from either party during that stretch, meaning he is not only ranked…
Top Romney adviser: He ‘would have signed’ Ryan’s budget
As Mitt Romney’s campaign was trying to distance itself from his running mate’s proposed budget on Sunday, senior adviser Ed Gillespie admitted that the candidate “would have signed” Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) controversial plan. After the Republican presidential hopeful on Saturday announced that he had selected Ryan as the vice…
Gingrich changes tune, sings praises for Paul Ryan’s budget
Newt Gingrich, who last May assailed Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) budget plan as “right-wing social engineering,” offered a much rosier assessment of Ryan on Sunday’s Face the Nation now that the Wisconsin Republican has been named as Mitt Romney’s running mate. Gingrich praised the Ryan budget and took issue with…
Anti-gay group praises Paul Ryan’s ‘pro-marriage’ stance
The National Organization of Marriage (NOM) praised Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) on Saturday after it was announced he was Mitt Romney’s running mate. In a blog post, the organization noted several “pro-marriage” votes that Ryan made in Congress. The Wisconsin congressman voted in favor of a constitutional amendment to define…
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