Obama said a plan unveiled by Republican congressman Paul Ryan on Tuesday which balances the budget in 10 years was too punitive

AFP
March 13, 2013

President Barack Obama warned America will not balance its budget within a decade because Republican plans to do so would entail slashing social programs many citizens rely on for support.

Even as he set out to woo lawmakers Tuesday on Capitol Hill, including Republican foes, Obama called for an approach that restores fiscal stability but also protects healthcare for the poor and the elderly and shields the middle class.

“My [...]

Paul Ryan Shock: Clinton Would Have Fixed Fiscal Mess By Now… Deep budget cuts unavoidable…

Congressman Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) made a comment on NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday that is guaranteed to raise eyebrows on both sides of the aisle.

“If we had a Clinton presidency, if we had Erskine Bowles chief-of-staff at the White House, or President of the United States, I think we would have fixed this fiscal mess by now. That’s not the kind of presidency we’re dealing with right now.”

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2013/01/27/paul-ryan-if-we-had-clinton-presidencywe-would-have-fixed-fiscal-mess#ixzz2JEXbepAl

RYAN SAYS DEEP BUDGET [...]

A Nation of Takers Hurtles Toward the Fiscal Abyss

Please read this column, more than anything it shows how our politicians use our own tax dollars to keep themselves in office, how their liberal use of our tax dollars are changing us into western Europeans and the welfare state is changing our character.

When i watch the news all i can think is groundhog day and that we have seen these very same “negotiations” and fiscal battles over and over again. our [...]

OBAMA: ‘JOE JUST NEEDS TO BE JOE’

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has offered his take on the debate between Vice President Joe Biden and Congressman Paul Ryan, saying “Joe just needs to be Joe.”

http://news.yahoo.com/obama-debate-watchers-joe-needs-joe-112533828

Romney says Ryan won’t oppose abortion in rape cases (Romney supports both rape & incest abortion)

Odious remarks by GOP Missouri Senate candidate Cong. Todd Akin about how few pregnancies result from “legitimate rape” have done more than outrage people across the country and doom Akin’s bid to move up from the House.

It motivated the Romney campaign – – already trailing among women voters in recent polls – – to distance itself from Akin by assuring voters that Romney and Paul Ryan – – the “Romney-Ryan [...]

POLL: 50% Now View Paul Ryan Favorably; 43% Say He Was Right Choice

Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan’s favorables are up after the first blush of national media exposure following Mitt Romney’s selection of him as his vice presidential running mate. But as is generally the case with running mates, Ryan gives only a slight boost to Romney.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 50% of Likely U.S. Voters now have a favorable opinion of Ryan, while 32% view him unfavorably. This [...]

MEDIA COMPLAINS ABOUT RYAN’S LACK OF ‘PRIVATE-SECTOR’ EXPERIENCE

If tonight’s reporting is correct, and if Mitt Romney really does announce at 9 A.M. Saturday that Congressman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin is his running mate, Romney has made the most daring decision of his political career.

After spending weeks looking into Ryan’s history for The New Yorker, visiting his home town, and interviewing him twice, I am genuinely surprised that Romney chose him. First, let’s tally the risks of a Ryan pick.

For one thing, Ryan [...]

Wilbur Ross to Yahoo Finance: “playing the class division card is going to come back and haunt our whole society”

The Economy Can’t Function Without Wall Street: Wilbur Ross

Mitt Romney scored three big primary wins Tuesday night, widening his lead over his remaining rivals in the GOP presidential nominating contest, including his closest competitor Rick Santorum. With victories in Maryland, Wisconsin and the Washington, D.C., Romney has become one step closer to securing the GOP nomination and appears on track to amassing the delegates he needs to be his party’s [...]

Romney falls for April Fool’s prank as staff send him out to make speech to an empty room

Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney may have forgotten that Sunday was April Fools’ Day.

His staff did not.

‘This is a morning I’m not going to forget anytime soon,’ Romney told supporters a little later in the day. ‘They turned me into the April fool this morning.’

Scroll down to watch the prank

April Fool: Campaign workers took Romney to a room he thought was packed with supporters, instead he was greeted with a [...]

Cain Offers Possibilities For VP: Paul Ryan, Jim DeMint

Appearing on the Nashville-based nationally syndicated Steve Gill Show today GOP Presidential candidate Herman Cain specifically mentioned Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) as the type of people he would consider a good fit for his Cabinet or for the Vice Presidential slot on his ticket. “I will be looking for someone as Vice President who understands problem solving the same way [...]

Republican Congressman Paul Ryan confronted by woman furious he was drinking a 350$ bottle of wine on lobbyist’s dime while advocating medicare cuts; shouting ensues.

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), a leading advocate of shrinking entitlement spending and the architect of the plan to privatize Medicare, spent Wednesday evening sipping $350 wine with two like-minded conservative economists at the swanky Capitol Hill eatery Bistro Bis.

It was the same night reports started trickling out about President Obama pressing Congressional leaders to consider changes to Social Security and Medicare in exchange for GOP support for targeted tax increases.

[TPM [...]

CHANGE: Obama to lay out new spending plan… LAST BUDGET PLAN: Record deficit of $1.6 trillion

AP:

WASHINGTON (AP) — A top White House political and economic adviser says President Obama will lay out new plans this week to reduce the federal deficit.

Obama adviser David Plouffe, speaking Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” says Obama plans to offer ideas for what Plouffe calls “long-term deficit reduction” as Congress begins to debate raising the nation’s debt ceiling.

Plouffe is giving few specifics on [...]

Ryan: Debt On Track To Hit 800% Of GDP

via CBS News:

(CNSNews.com) – House Budget Committee Chairman Congressman Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) said President Obama’s budget strategy is to “do nothing, punt, duck, kick the can down the road.” Whereas the House Republicans’ FY2012 budget, said Ryan, saves Medicare and helps the United States avoid a debt crisis.

“It all comes down to this: Either you fix this problem now where we, [...]