How Bad Was The Ryan Pick?
I first openly expressed my doubts about the value of Mitt Romney selecting House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) as his vice presidential running mate 10 days ago. Here's the money quote...
View ArticleTiming/PR Of Ryan Announcement Could Not Have Been Worse
Is anyone else as perplexed about the timing and staging of the Ryan announcement as I am?The Romney folks obviously had to do something to change the narrative from the past few weeks, to try to...
View ArticleRomney/Ryan: Deficit Increasers
It was just three weeks ago that I said in a post:This has to be said as directly as possible...If you care about the federal deficit and national debt, Romney isn't your guy.That's even more true now...
View ArticleFederal Spending Is VERY Popular. Episode 2: Paul Ryan Is A Hypocrite
How do you oppose the stimulus bill but demand that some of the money you didn't ant the government to spend be spent in your district? As Michael Grunwald explains over at Swampland, just ask House...
View ArticlePaul Ryan's Blatant Lies About The B-S Commission
I've posted so many times before (here, here, here and here, for example) about the utter failure of the Bowles-Simpson commission -- or as I prefer to call it, the B-S commission -- that I had vowed...
View ArticlePaul Ryan Wants To Get Thin Without Counting His Love Handles
This is not a post about House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's (R-WI) exercise and diet program. It is, however, a post about how he's planning to produce a budget that gets to balance in 10...
View ArticleNuclear Option Increases Chances Of Another Shutdown, Sequestration
By changing it's rules yesterday to prevent filibusters on executive branch and judicial nominees (other than the Supreme Court) -- the so-called nuclear option -- the Senate further complicated a...
View ArticleDid Boehner Grow A Pair Or Just Rent Them?
It's been less than a week since House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) surprised the political world by publicly and directly taking on the right wing groups -- and, by inference, the tea party wing of the...
View ArticleRyan Agrees That Budget Deal Hurts His Chances To Be President
In a post several days ago, I listed House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) as one of the losers of the budget deal because it hurt his chances to become the GOP presidential nominee in...
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