Meet Paul Ryan: Football Fan, Deer Hunter, Father, & Budget Wonk
- Posted on April 6, 2011 at 8:23am by
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WASHINGTON (AP) — He’s a Green Bay Packers fanatic and a fitness buff, a father of three and a bow hunter not averse to sending emails while stalking deer in the brush.
Seven-term Rep. Paul Ryan is the Republican out front with a message politicians of any stripe don’t like to say out loud: Medicare, Medicaid and someday soon Social Security must be reformed or cut outright if the nation’s deficit is to be brought under control.
He‘s delivering that inconvenient truth in a role he’s coveted for years, as the Republicans’ new Budget Committee chairman. Ryan is aware that plenty of colleagues are balking. And if the nation’s aging, fiscally strained voters reject Ryan’s “Path to Prosperity”?
“We can all go do something else with our lives,” Ryan, 41, said Tuesday.
In the meantime, he says Americans “are ready to be talked to like adults, not children” about what’s needed to bring increasingly dangerous deficits under control: big changes in all-but-untouchable programs, including aid for the elderly and the poor.
“Hopefully,” he says, “that kind of adult conversation can occur.”
The messenger is a youthful father of three with an enthusiasm for fitness who is as likely to have Led Zeppelin as Beethoven playing through the ear buds he often wears around Capitol Hill. He leads sessions of a workout routine called P90X for a few colleagues as many as five times a week. He’s an avid bow hunter who emails from the brush as he waits for deer.
Ryan’s also known for at least one salty Christmas gift exchange: He gave Rep. James Sensenbrenner, also of Wisconsin, nose clippers in a box from Tiffany’s after Sensenbrenner gifted Ryan a reindeer that dispensed candy from the back end.
Ryan told The Washington Post that he’s not a “root canal” Republican focused on making America suffer for a broader goal.
But to a nation just getting to know him, Ryan is a wonky “budgeteer” armed with graphs and PowerPoint presentations to help illustrate his “Roadmap for America’s Future” in 2008 and, on Tuesday, his “Path to Prosperity,” both of which prescribe painful solutions for the nation’s fiscal ills.
People are listening, some in high places.
Last year at the GOP retreat in Baltimore, Obama referenced Ryan’s alternative budget proposal with a shout-out any author would envy.
“I’ve read it. I can tell you what’s in it,” Obama said. The plan, the president added, was “a serious proposal,“ and Ryan ”a sincere guy.”
This year, Ryan made his pitch as the GOP‘s responder to Obama’s State of the Union address. And on Tuesday, he delivered the Budget Committee’s “Path to Prosperity,” a proposal for the 2012 budget that even some Republicans worry could do the party more harm than good in next year’s elections.
Democrats pounced.
“We must cut spending and tighten our belt, but House Republicans have chosen to do so on the backs of America’s seniors, not the big oil companies making record profits and getting tens of billions in taxpayer subsidies,” the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee blasted in an email later in the day.
Ryan shrugged at such criticism.
“We‘re here to try and fix this country’s problems,” he told reporters. “If that means we’re giving our political adversaries a political weapon to use against us – which, by the way, they will have to distort, demagogue and lie to use it – shame on them.”
Editor’s note: not mentioned in this AP article is that Ryan is a religious man. He is a member of St. John Vianney’s Catholic Parish in Janesville, WI.
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BrerRabbit
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 10:04amA POTUS? I hope so.
Report Post »Teapartywoman
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 9:47amI’m watching you Mr. Ryan and I like what I see. May God give you the power to stand tall in the eye of the storm.
Report Post »NYSTREETKID
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 9:40amyeah,yeah,yeah,I know he is great, HE is not running. So what now. wish on the tooth fairy. He not running cause he knows that the deck is stacked. He did what was the only thing he could. A voice in the wilderness. IF a man speaks in the house and no one hears him,did he make any sound? Wishfull thinking, A nice dream, but a dream needless to say. what do we really do. we talk the power grow stronger. what can we really do. we must go on the same type of tactical play book. March in mass, flood the talking heads with phonecall. boycott there New channels. call company the do business with them. go after soros cash flow.. For the love of GOD, WE are the free market people. The left is using it more then we do. They are using the very thing they hate ,MONEY. We need to use there play book. Mess of people. Threat of voters is what win in 2010.. The marches and teaparty town hall meeting. What happened no one got time now.
Report Post »mossbrain
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 9:38amSending emails whilst bow hunting? Ted would not approve of this.
Report Post »alaskajohn
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 9:16amRYAN RYAN RYAN. My new favorate person..
Report Post »arrestedLiberty
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 9:12amI’ve been waiting since the healthcare summit to see Paul Ryan debate Obama in the next presidential election debates. Please Paul, RUN!
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 9:10amAs a fellow, bleeding green & gold, Packer fan and bow hunter, I salute you sir.
Report Post »JROCKER
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 9:03amFinally a republican with good ideas and backbone to go with it, And he’s a Packers fan and a bowhunter. We need more like him. Now the rest of the Party better get on board. These tough cuts need to be made. He would make a great leader for this country! 2012 or 2016?
Report Post »Bronco II
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 9:03amHe has shown true leadership.Some may say he doesn’t have experience in some areas but he just showed us he can take a task and do his homework and think thru it research it and then bring it to us and explain it to the American People.He did what the Dems and the GOP leader couldn‘t or wouldn’t do.GOOD JOB PAUL.
Report Post »Tracking
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 5:35pmWell said.
Report Post »AU Patriot
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 9:02amThank you Mr. Ryan. We the American people have your back. Keep up the good fight. This mom really appreciates what you are doing for the next generation.
Report Post »alrunner58
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 9:02amI love Ryan’s moxie. I’m behind him 110%.
Report Post »Nations
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 9:01amThis man and his ideas must be given all help from those of us who want to solve our problem…Stand and deliver.
Report Post »doglady
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 8:55amGod Bless you Paul Ryan. You need to lead this country out of this fiscal mess it is in. None of the democrats can do it. Hang in there Paul. We need you.
Report Post »katzenbacker73
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 8:44amDefinitely Presidential material Maybe he will run someday.
Report Post »entropy
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 8:43amYeah right. All talk. It will never happen. The dumb a$$ american people are too stupid to elect representatives that will save this country. It is either “don’t touch my Medicare!!“ or ”I paid into it I want my Social Security!” or yak yak yak yak yak ….don’t touch my (insert entitlement).
Report Post »Gail
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 8:42amI LOVE Paul Ryan! I know he says he isn’t running for Pres……but, I wish he would! He is one of the few that has a plan that WILL work!
Report Post »nacilbuper
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 8:42amBachman – Ryan 2012!
Report Post »vegtech
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 8:37amOne has to wonder why they eliminated the fact which emphisises his support of the congressional freshmen
Report Post »rodamaa
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 8:34amIrony, the man is from Wisconsin to boot
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 8:43amI have heard that Madison is different from the rest of Wisconsin, much like Austin is a liberal island in the middle of Texas.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 9:01amas long as he isnt from Kenya
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 9:07amMadison, Dane County in fact, is a Communist enclave basically due to the state Capitol, with plenty of union public workers, and the main state college, the University of Wisconsin, with it’s Commie professors and brainless students, all together in some Commie incestuous relationship. The rest of the state is nothing like that “50 square miles surrounded by sanity”. The “Moscow on the Mendota”
Report Post »the Midwest’s American Traitors.
Gonzo
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 9:15amHey Ted, don’t sugar coat it, tell us how you really feel about Madison! :-)
Report Post »TexasCommonSense
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 9:35amGonzo, you’re right. Liberals want to infiltrate state capitals, particularly in conservative states, to try and over take them. They are even trying it here in Texas. Austin is even the home of “Hippie Hollow”. ’nuff said.
Report Post »Untameable-kate
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 10:55amYou know TEXAS, it kinda cracks me up how hard they try to imbed and change red states. We get alot of that here in Az especially with Ca (land of fruits and nuts) right next door.
Report Post »Hope all is well in the beautiful state of Tx today!
lhills
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 8:33amGood for him. We’re broke and we need a true budget hawk. And with the explosion of new media, there is no reason for Democrats to win this media war. Everyone with access to a blog, Facebook, or even email ought to help get the truth out about Ryan’s budget. We still have time to wake our fellow Americans up. I encourage my conservative friends out there to dedicate yourselves to spreading the truth over the next year. If you only change one person’s mind, you’ve still done a world of good.
Report Post »jedi.kep
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 8:31amWay to go Paul. Hold the line and cut a couple of trillion more.
Report Post »Marylou7
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 8:31amI‘m a senior and I’m impressed with this young man.
Report Post »Untameable-kate
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 10:17amSounds like you are thinking about the good of the country. I am sick of the dems making noise all the time that republicans want to “….cut spending and tighten our belt, but House Republicans have chosen to do so on the backs of America’s seniors, not the big oil companies making record profits and getting tens of billions in taxpayer subsidies,” closing tax loopholes so companies like GE can’t avoid paying taxes sounds like a pretty good deal to me (not that the dems EVER mention GE in their rants).
Report Post »KINGRUDDY
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 8:31amA man with a plan, who can lead…..imagine that!! IF you have been following this budget mess…. Paul Ryan is the only one who has a concrete plan with any bite and common sense. More leaders and less sleepwalkers!!!!
Report Post »PA PATRIOT
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 8:41amYes and as pointed out on many talk shows Nancy and Harry have nothing to offer but continual complaining about taking away entitlements and how the Reps and TP are going to make people suffer. A bit of humility would do the Dems some good, but no, their noses are pointed to the treetops and cannot see what is really happening in front of them.
Report Post »The idiots cut off their nose to spite their face. Stuck up B’s
NYSTREETKID
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 9:17am“Cute and cuddly,cute and cuddly,boys“ A quote from the ”skipper”. You saw nothing. This plan has as much changes as a snow ball in hell. (which might be ok,since we now say there is no hell), However, For the now. This is DOA. It Wont see the lights of the senate chamber for a vote. Cute and cuddly, boys Just wave ..
Report Post »marybethelizabeth
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 9:38amIf lowering the tax rate on the wealthy is good good policy because it benefits us all, why stop at 25%. Wouldn’t lowering the rate to 20% be even better? or 10%.
Report Post »Shouldn’t we just pay the wealthy to remain in our presence; pay tribute? Or is that what Congressional legislation is already doing?
Why not just give all the wealth of the country of to the wealthy few since they having proven themselves competent in money management?
These “Supply Side” economic programs are truly the road to tyranny.
338lapua
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 11:19am@marybethelizabeth, thanks again for the talking points. What you argue has been proven to be a specious argument. Try again.
Report Post »Blackhawk1
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 11:42ammarybethelizabeth
Please get a clue before spewing the liberal talking points. You want to know WHY our jobs are being shipped overseas? Here is our Corporate tax rate in the U.S. which is number 2 out of 33 in the world. Guess who beat us out? Japan!
Highest Corporate Tax Rate #2. United States
Combined Corporate Income Tax Rate: 39.21%
Current rate in place since: 2008
2010 forecasted GDP growth: +3.3%
Highest Corporate Tax Rate #1. Japan
Combined Corporate Income Tax Rate: 39.54%
Report Post »Current rate in place since: 2004
2010 forecasted GDP growth: +2.4%
Gonzo
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 8:30amI would pay money to see Ryan debate Obama on the budget and deficit. Ryan would look like an adult arguing with a 3 year old.
Report Post »dabbo
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 8:51amRyan would most certainly mop the floor with the Great Leader.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 9:02amObama can’t even put a cogent sentence together without a teleprompter, much less a debate without first getting the lead-in questions, and someone to put the answers on his teleprompter. Obama couldn’t even carry his water.
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 9:03amActually, in at least one meeting where Ryan & Obama were talking, it was obvious how uncomfortable Obama is with Ryan around. Obama knows he’s an intellectual light weight compared to Ryan.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 9:12amHey Ted, I know what your talking about. It was when Obama called Rupublican leaders in to “get their input” on Obamacare. The look on Obama’s face as Ryan tore in to his signature bill was priceless.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 9:18am@Grandmaof5:
I have to agree with you, and honestly have one other part to say as well, that in regard to the budget battle and the national debt, this is our Archduke Ferdenan moment. The time to make it or break it is now, and the administration seems determined to take us off the cliff in a final suicide play to grab final and complete control.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 12:10pm@grandmaof5
Report Post »Posted on April 6, 2011 at 9:02am
Obama can’t even put a cogent sentence together without a teleprompter, much less a debate without first getting the lead-in questions, and someone to put the answers on his teleprompter. Obama couldn’t even carry his water.
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And, as much beer as he drinks, he probably can’t hold hhis water, either!
vennoye
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 12:46pmI would like to see Ryan and Obama debate on nearly any subject! Results would be the same! Everytime I hear how “intelligent” Obama is, I want to say “Prove IT” IF he is so intelligent, why are the scholastic records all buried!!!
Report Post »abc
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 6:45pmRyan might know the budget issues better than Obama, but apparently not well enough. The rising star in the GOP is cutting taxes by more than he is cutting spending, so even he cannot balance the budget. I do not really think he should be lauded like this before he has done anything.
Report Post »spookydude
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 8:28amFuture POTUS…..!
Report Post »Leadthemtothelight
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 8:34amI like his energy. I think we need many more like Paul to turn things around. As the posturing continues in Washington we need candidates that will do the hard work that needs to be done. I can only pray that the Republican party unveils soon its SUPER 2012 presidential candidate. Whoever wins the whitehouse, is gonna have one hell of a mess to clean up. And the American people are gonna have to dig deep and realize that the role of government is not to carry them from the cradle to the grave.
Report Post »VanGrungy
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 8:37amhttp://news.nationalpost.com/2011/04/06/7th-graders-go-on-field-trip-to-protest-with-ocap/
OT
pass it on… you thought highschoolers at union protests are bad.. How would you like your 7th grader hanging out with violence prone poverty pimps?
Report Post »Thug sauce
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 8:42amHE Voted for TARP and the Bailout of foreign banks… In my opinion, he should never receive tea party backing
Report Post »joe3
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 8:44amhes got guts, thats enough.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 8:58amGod above I hope we are able to get the country turned around before it is too late; we need to keep up support for Ryan, and for getting this country back on track once again. It will take time and some pain to save her, and get it right again, yet we will do it.
Report Post »packrbackr
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 9:08amIf we all don’t give up something now, the american dream will only be part of american history for our children, if there even will be an america. Hard work no matter what kind is never easy.
Report Post »When my kids were old enonogh to work beside me I always asked them “why are we doing this’
and they would reply “ because no one will do it for us”. I now it will be a struggle but they will be ok.
SELF RELIANCE WORKS
joe conservative
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 9:08amPaul Ryan is doing a great job on this. He’s the first one to come out with an actual plan. Let’s watch the liberal media attack it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11eYGdOVnvc
Report Post »marybethelizabeth
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 9:10amRepresentative Ryan’s plan to give the wealthy lower tax rates will be popular with wealthy talk show hosts but is not good public policy. Selling off public assets privatizing Fannie Mae will make a few private citizen’s wealthy at the expense of the rest of the citizenry and is not good public policy. Shifting the costs of some programs like food stamps from the fed to the States will increase administrative costs and is just sleight of hand and not good public policy.
Report Post »NYSTREETKID
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 9:27am50% of the “people”,do want them to be taken by the hand. Why can we see the the left is very large in this county. They Know what they are voting for. And being so close in races .begs courts to get in the middle. Maybe we need to start thinking outside the box. or we stay on this treadmill running to no where. This is great to hear each of us, We are preaching to those who believe. That not that hard. We not going to change to many of thier minds. So where do we go.in a mostly 50/50 split what do you do? In a system that for the most part takes a 2/3rd vote to pass anything, how do you fixs this? YOU CANT!. We needs to start thinking in new directions. Where? dont have a clue. But this sure the hell is not working.
Report Post »TexasCommonSense
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 9:30amI like him.
Report Post »Blackhawk1
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 9:33amThug Sauce
Please read why Ryan voted the way he did here, http://dailycaller.com/2010/02/14/paul-ryan-explains-his-votes-for-tarp-auto-bailouts-and-tax-on-aig-bonuses/ It pretty well explains it as far as TARP goes.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 10:09am“Americans are ready to be talked to like adults.” Right, we are,
Report Post »The only problem is that the Democrats do not act like adults, nor want to be treated like adults.
They want to use hyphenated words so no one’s feelings are hurt. You cannot have adult conversations with people who never grew up, mentally.
That, pretty much, sums up the problems with our Congress and President.
middleclassprophet
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 10:14amLmao!!!
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 10:19ammhm privatize medicare…now, whose pockets would THAT line? And who would pay higher prices? (We ask, you decide ;)
Report Post »338lapua
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 10:44am@marybethelizabeth……have you READ the roadmap? You inserted the talking points, but at best they are a distortion. This plan spreads the “pain” (if you can even call it that) out so thin, as to be barely noticeable. And it actually FIXES the problem. Does the talking points memo have any better ideas…..that ACTUALLY WORK? AND that do not affect current retirees at all. I challenge the premise of your post,if you can bring some ideas to the table I am all ears.
Report Post »DTOM_Jericho
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 10:53amHis plan is not even close to enough. Rand Paul‘s plan makes this guy’s look like smoke and mirrors.
Report Post »nysparkie
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 11:03amWe can hope.
Report Post »freeus
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 11:09am@Thug Sauce,
Report Post »I wasn’t against tarp until after the fact. Nobody’s record is perfect. Ryan is courageously proposing serious budget and spending cuts in his recovery plan and trying to undo some of the damage of our ways. Not one other politician has come up a serious option, only criticisms. Especially Barry and his underlings.
Face it, here is no “perfect politician”.
dawg of gawd
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 11:17amYeah, but have you seen his ears? Wow, those ears!
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 11:48am@marybethelizabeth
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 9:10am
Representative Ryan’s plan to give the wealthy lower tax rates will be popular with wealthy talk show hosts but is not good public policy. Selling off public assets privatizing Fannie Mae will make a few private citizen’s wealthy at the expense of the rest of the citizenry and is not good public policy. Shifting the costs of some programs like food stamps from the fed to the States will increase administrative costs and is just sleight of hand and not good public policy.
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So, MaryBethElizaBeth-How-does-Your-Garden-Grow-Beth, are you lumping the wealthy who are already wealthy and have no income in with the wealthy who do have an income?
As for selling off public assets privatizing Fannie Mae, what do you suggest as good public policy?
As for the handling of food stamps by the state or federal level, what do you have as a good public policy?
And as far as “good public poliicy” is concerned, how is government spending to double and triple our national debt good public policy? When the government is spending more than we take in as taxes, how is that good public policy? Don’t give me the lame excuse of “boosting the economy;” the government cannot boost the economy by spending. Why not? Because the government has no PRODUCT.
EXACTLY what do you consider to be GOOD public policy, and what would YOU suggest instead?
Good public policy would be to freeze all budgeted discretionary spending, to include earmarks and defund organizations that have no business receiving tax dollars, eliminate the jobs added to the federal government since January 2008, reduce the size of government, and to listen to someone who has some idea of how to keep America from bankruptcy while we still have a republic form of government.
In all my many years, I have never seen the people rise up against the members of congress and the administration as we have since August 2008, when We the People rebelled against what Obama was trying to pull off — Socialism. And, We the People are still rebelling against it.
From where I sit, it seems that the Progressive Democrats are doing everything in their dwindling power to bring this country down into the gutters of poverty. We are not considered a great nation any longer, and this is on Obama’s watch. Do you have ANY idea of why the TEA Party formed itself? The TEA Party is not going away. The TEA Party is here to ensure that Republicans stick to their conservative values and do not back down. The TEA Party put representatives and senators into Congress, and the Progressive Democrats are scared to death of us! If the Progressive Democrats had been working FOR America instead of AGAINST America, there would be no TEA Party.
I see the future of America because I see who Obama’s friends are — Communists, unions, Soros, and big businesses in bed with Obama.
It’s all about power, control, and stripping Americans of as much money as possible. Is that what you call good public policy? I sure as hell don’t!
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 11:50am@middleclassprophet
Report Post »Posted on April 6, 2011 at 10:14am
Lmao!!!
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Yeah, you would laugh at the idea of someone as POTUS with a good fiscal policy aimed at prosperity for America.
Blackhawk1
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 11:53amDawg
Yeah his ears are only half the size of ODumbo’s. The biggest difference is Ryan actually LISTENS with his ears.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 12:06pm@Blackhawk1
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 11:53am
Dawg
Yeah his ears are only half the size of ODumbo’s. The biggest difference is Ryan actually LISTENS with his ears.
Report Post »~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Well stated! (There was so much smoke that I called the fire department!)
Katayno
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 12:17pmAbout 15 years ago….when I was a non-political person, my parents invited me for a meet-and-greet
Report Post »at their home for a young congressman. I said, No thanks, not interested. Since I lived right next door I did run over for a minute and saw the nice looking congressman, his wife and their baby.
That man was Paul Ryan. I was such a dope back then and this is why I tell my kids to get involved and know what is going on in this Country, because Socialism is coming if we don’t wake up. .
AZfreeman
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 12:40pm@marybethelizabeth
Representative Ryan’s plan to give the wealthy lower tax rates will be popular with wealthy talk show hosts but is not good public policy. Selling off public assets privatizing Fannie Mae will make a few private citizen’s wealthy at the expense of the rest of the citizenry and is not good public policy. Shifting the costs of some programs like food stamps from the fed to the States will increase administrative costs and is just sleight of hand and not good public policy.
MBE, …believe in wealth redistribution much? I hear Move-on.org is interviewing for analysts. It must be hell for you being stuck in America….the wealthiest Capitalistic Nation the world has ever seen. Did it ever occur to you to better your position instead of demanding we turn our country into a Communist State? Go to….well, er, a, ….Cuba.
Report Post »….rf
tompaineknowsthescore
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 12:53pmnice puff piece
Report Post »realindependent
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 1:45pmlooks like a grown eddie monster to me.
Report Post »realindependent
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 1:47pmOh and a grandma killing privatizing republicorp member. All you tea partiers where saying keep your hands off of my medicare when O’bama was doing health care reform. This guy wants to cut 1.2 TRILLION from medicare. what do you have to say now? TRY OOPS!!!!!
Report Post »olduffer
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 1:59pmJust heard on ‘Rush’ that the CBO “trashed” Ryans proposal 4 hours after he introduced it. Quick study over there, analysis in Four Hours…‘Gimme a break’. If you think that the CBO is non-partisan let‘s you and me talk about a little bridge I’ve got for sale.
Report Post »freeus
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 4:14pm@BlackHawk1,
Report Post »Yah, and he actually has some gray matter between those ears.
TMedGotLost
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 7:27pmam i the only one that remembers glenn beck calling him out for being a progressive?…. right?
Report Post »leftcoastslut
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 10:50pmyou could have a following…. but we have been fooled before.. many are watching.
let’s see some pulling up on the boot straps
let us see what you are made of, we could ralley behind you, but we have been burnt many times
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