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Biden blasts Romney’s Bain bailout
The day after the close of the 2012 Republican National Convention, Vice President Joe Biden came out swinging at inaccuracies in a speech given by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) and calling Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney to account for pressuring the government to bail out help his former private equity…
Jon Stewart hammers Paul Ryan over lies and convenient truths
The Daily Show host Jon Stewart on Thursday night chronicled the convenient truths and factual inaccuracies in Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) speech at the Republican National Convention. Stewart mocked the vice presidential candidate for being the “intellectual leader of the new Republican Party,” yet giving a speech that lacked any…
Santorum defends ‘good man’ Todd Akin
Former Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) said Tuesday that Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO), whose comments about “legitimate rape” stirred up a rhetorical firestorm, is a “good man” who just made “a ridiculous statement.” Speaking to CBS News from Tampa, Santorum added that Akin “didn’t do a very good job in dealing…
Maddow: Republican Convention ‘rolling out the Iraq war’ for Paul Ryan
On her show Thursday night, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow said the Republican Convention in Tampa was “rolling out” Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) as if he were former deputy secretary of defense Paul Wolfowitz, a neoconservative who served in the Bush Administration. “Do you want to know who they picked to…
New video from ‘Paul Ryan’ features him rapping ‘White people are back!’
A rap satire published Thursday on Jest.com features a stand-in for Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) explaining that he doesn’t subscribe to the views of Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO), but he still “loves me some baby making.” That’s just one line out of whole pile of rapid-fire political barbs included in…
Robert Reich: Ryan budget worse than Bush’s economic plan
University of California professor Robert Reich blasted Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) proposed budget plan, saying it would help the rich while hurting the poor. “It’s much worse than what we tried under George W. Bush,” he said on Current TV. “The tax cuts that Ryan wants to provide to the…
Michelle Goldberg: Akin and Ryan share same views on abortion policy
Appearing on Democracy Now on Tuesday, Michelle Goldberg of The Daily Beast said that Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) share many of the same views when it comes to abortion policies. Akin created a firestorm after he claimed over the weekend that victims of “legitimate rape”…
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,…
Obama: Paul Ryan wants Romney to pay almost no taxes
President Obama mocked the tax plans of both Mitt Romney and his running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) at a campaign rally in New Hampshire Saturday, saying that his GOP rivals were offering “snake oil” policies that would hurt the middle class while serving as a windfall for rich folks…
Soledad O’Brien schools Republican Rep. claiming Ryan Medicare plan ‘not vouchers’
Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) has become the latest Republican to go up against CNN host Soledad O’Brien on the issue of Medicare and lose. During an interview on Friday, O’Brien called out Chaffetz after he tried to claim that that Medicare plans offered by presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney…
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