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I wonder what percentage of the the black vote Obama will get this time around. God bless
Eh, perhaps there'll be a struggle, but my gut tells me that Obama will have this rather handily (at least 53%). Of course, things can change if something explosive comes up, but I doubt it.
I wonder what percentage of the the black vote Obama will get this time around. God bless
Maybe a bit lower this time around -- say 95%
Money for what? Willard certainly can't run on his record, tbh... I suppose he could run a bunch of racist birth certificate ads and the like, but that would really seal his fate for good....
I'll bet he will still get high 90's of those who vote, but I'll bet only half as many turn out to vote.
9 Reasons Romney's Choice of Paul Ryan for Veep Is Smarter Than You Think
1. Romney was in danger of losing badly, so a gamble was worth the risk.
2. Romney is now seen as bold.
3. Did I mention Ryan is Catholic?
4. Romney now has even more money.
5. Romney gets the full Koch election infrastructure.
6. The Romney campaign will now be the most brutal, race-tinged, fact-absent, expensive, technologically sophisticated campaign ever run.
7. While the VP pick isn't going to change the mind of many independent or hard-core party voters, it is a move to bring all elements of the party in sync.
8. Repeat: Paul Ryan is the most effective phony in American politics today.
9. The Conservative tribe is now ready to fight all of its enemies.
http://www.alternet.org/print/electi...rter-you-think
The Ryan Role
even Jacob Weisberg apologized for his initial praise, admitting that
I reacted too quickly and didn’t sort out just how laughable Ryan’s long-term spending projections were. His plan projects an absurd future, according to the Congressional Budget Office, in which all discretionary spending, now around 12 percent of GDP, shrinks to 3 percent of GDP by 2050. Defense spending alone was 4.7 percent of GDP in 2009. With numbers like that, Ryan is more an anarchist-libertarian than honest conservative.
Ryan hasn’t “crunched the numbers”; he has just scribbled some stuff down, without checking at all to see if it makes sense. He asserts that he can cut taxes without net loss of revenue by closing unspecified loopholes; he asserts that he can cut discretionary spending to levels not seen since Calvin Coolidge, without saying how; he asserts that he can convert Medicare to a voucher system, with much lower spending than now projected, without even a hint of how this is supposed to work. This is just a fantasy, not a serious policy proposal.
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/201...the-ryan-role/
Lol Krugman
Actually, those were the words of Jacob Weisberg as quoted in Krugman's blog. But, instead of dismissing the author out of hand why don't you address the fact that your new vice presidential candidate's budget is so wildly unrealistic that, the only way it can add up is to shrink all discretionary spending to around 3 percent of GDP by 2050. This is in addition to the unspecified loopholes in the budget to be closed to pay for $4.6T in additional tax cuts.
This is a legitimate issue. All I have heard since Saturday is that this guy is a wonk and knows the budget inside and out. Ok fine, let's have a legitimate debate about what the federal government would look like when discretionary spending is 3 percent of GDP. I am pretty sure I know who would win that debate, and you do to, which is why Republicans don't want to have it.
I wonder what percentage of the 1%, Wall St, ignorant red-state bubba, gun fetishist, "Christian" Taleban vote Gecko will get?
between these two 1%ers, I choose neither
Paul Ryan Once Wanted To ‘Remove’ Tax Burden On Poor Americans, But His Current Budget Does The Opposite
Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) 2012 budget, which passed the House in March and has been embraced by Mitt Romney, raises taxes on everyone making less than $30,000, while giving massive tax breaks to those earning more than $1 million a year.
As this chart shows, those at the very bottom of the income scale would see their after-tax income shrink by the largest amount under Ryan’s plan (and they could see their taxes go up even more, if any tax credits were eliminated in an attempt to cover some of the cost of the plan):
Like Ryan, raising taxes on low-income Americans has become something of a recent obsession for Republicans. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA), Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), and others argue that it’s an injustice that those who don’t make enough money to qualify for the lowest tax bracket aren’t forced to pay income taxes.
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/201...an-poor-taxes/
lol thinkprogress
You Can't Handle The Facts
lol thinkprogress.
Somewhat lifelike talking points robot discusses Mediscare
Is Paul Ryan a Ticking Time Bomb as Mitt Romney’s Running Mate?
The congressman is getting glowing press, but journalists are just starting to examine his record.
It’s not that the mainstream media have ignored Ryan’s long record of wanting to drastically shrink and revamp government programs, especially Medicare and Medicaid, while pushing tax breaks that disproportionately favor the wealthy. But this somewhat radical agenda is wrapped in the gauzy overlay of an earnest young man who genuinely wants to keep the country from marching off a fiscal cliff.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...=Cheat%20Sheet
Representative Ryan's Far-Right Agenda: The Media Can't Take the Truth
In principle the country faces a choice this fall between a moderate conservative, President Obama, and the extreme conservative Romney-Ryan ticket that wants to privatize Social Security and Medicare and eliminate most of the services that the public expects from the federal government. The reason why this choice only exists in principle is that the media have worked hard to conceal Representative Ryan's extreme positions from the public. Now that Governor Romney has implicitly embraced these positions by selecting Representative Ryan as his vice-presidential nominee, it remains to be seen whether the media will do its job.
First, in spite of all the name-calling about President Obama being a Kenyan socialist, he has pushed an agenda that most Republicans would have been comfortable with 20 years ago. His health care plan was put first forward by the conservative Heritage Foundation in 1992, before Governor Romney put it in place in Massachusetts.
His Wall Street reform leaves the too-big-to-fail banks bigger than ever, and operating pretty much as they always did. That's pretty mild given their role in inflating a housing bubble, the collapse of which brought the economy to its knees.
And, running large deficits in a downturn was a practice that Obama could tie to Presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and both Bushes. It would be difficult to find a policy pushed by our Kenyan socialist president that would make a Nixon Republican unhappy.
By contrast, Representative Ryan has an extreme right-wing agenda that predates both the Great Society and the New Deal. He has put forward plans that would cut and privatize both Social Security and Medicare. He has also called for essentially zeroing out most categories of federal spending.
While Ryan supports current levels of military spending, the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) analysis of his budget shows that there will be essentially nothing left for anything else by 2040. The CBO analysis of the Ryan budget (prepared under his direction) shows that spending on all items other than health care and Social Security would fall to 4.75 percent of GDP by 2040 and to 3.75 percent of GDP by 2050.
The military budget currently is more than 4.0 percent of GDP. In the post-World War II era it has never been less than 3.0 percent. This means that Ryan's budget would leave nothing for running the State Department, the Park Service, the Food and Drug Administration, the Justice Department, the National Ins utes of Health and the other areas that comprise the federal government as it now exists.
However to imply that Ryan is some sort of stringent free market fundamentalist would be far too generous. Representative Ryan has never expressed any discomfort with the numerous forms of government intervention that redistribute income upward to those at the very top.
For example, Representative Ryan has never spoken up against the implicit insurance that the government provides to too-big-to-fail banks, a subsidy which has been estimated to exceed $60 billion a year. Representative Ryan has also never spoken up against government-provided patent monopolies for prescription drugs. Patent monopolies raise the price of drugs by close to $270 billion a year above the free market price. While there are more efficient mechanisms for financing drug research, Representative Ryan is apparently not bothered by a government-created monopoly that results in a massive upward redistribution of income.
He has also never spoken up against the professional and licensing restrictions that protect doctors in the United States from international compe ion. As a result of these protectionist barriers we pay our doctors more than twice as much as what doctors earn in Western Europe. If free trade lowered doctors pay to Western European levels it would be equivalent to a tax cut of $1,200 a year for an average family of four.
It is possible to cite many other government interventions along similar lines that never seemed to bother Representative Ryan. In other words, Representative Ryan doesn't have any principled objections to government interferences in the market, even when this interference leads to enormous inefficiency, as is the case with too-big-to-fail banks or patent protection for prescription drugs.
Representative Ryan only seems to object to government programs and policies that benefit lower- and middle-income people. In this sense he seems to have perfectly captured the philosophy of the modern Republican Party: "a dollar in the pocket of a middle class person is a dollar that could belong to a rich person."
We will face quite a choice this November.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dean-b...=Daily%20Brief
Paul Ryan's 'Path To Prosperity' Hurts Americans In These 10 Ways
Paul Ryan's budget proposals have earned him recognition from his fellow party members in Congress, and the presumed Republican vice presidential nominee's plans could have far-reaching effects on the American people if signed into law.
In Ryan's 2010 "Roadmap for America's Future" and the more recent "Path to Prosperity" in 2012, the Wisconsin congressman has laid out his vision for the role of the U.S. government and the future of federal en lement programs.
Under Ryan's most recent proposal, the way Americans pay taxes would be markedly different. Taxpayers would fit into two tax brackets: Individuals falling in the top tax bracket would pay a rate of 25 percent, while those who fall into the lower bracket would pay 10 percent. (Ryan's 2010 Roadmap plan went further, eliminating all taxes on capital gains, inheritance and interest. Such cuts would have permitted individuals like Mitt Romney, who derives much of his income from those sources, to get away with paying nothing in taxes.)
To balance Ryan's proposed $4 trillion in tax cuts, many federal programs would have to be drastically revamped. The Atlantic's Derek Thompson estimates 40 percent cuts in transportation and education spending, and 24 percent cuts to veterans' programs, among others.
Medicare and Social Security would also face "reform" under the Ryan plan. Medicare beneficiaries, for example, would receive financial support from the government to purchase private health insurance coverage starting in 2023. Ryan's proposal could also mean that 44 million fewer people would be covered under Medicaid, CBS News reports.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...comm_ref=false
"ticking time bomb" "far right agenda"
ooh noes
Do you not think that the goal cutting discretionary spending to 3% of GDP is an extreme budget? The current defense budget alone accounts for over 4% of GDP. Do you have any actual thoughts on Ryan's proposed budget?
low-information right-wingers don't have thoughts, only emotional positions and biases and parroting VRWC talking points, aka LIES.
dude, all YOU do here is parrot talking points.
Reagan Budget Adviser Blasts Paul Ryan’s Budget As An ‘Empty Fairy Tale’
The Ryan Plan boils down to a fetish for cutting the top marginal income-tax rate for “job creators” — i.e. the superwealthy — to 25 percent and paying for it with an as-yet-undisclosed plan to broaden the tax base. Of the $1 trillion in so-called tax expenditures that the plan would attack, the vast majority would come from slashing popular tax breaks for employer-provided health insurance, mortgage interest, 401(k) accounts, state and local taxes, charitable giving and the like, not to mention low rates on capital gains and dividends.
…In short, Mr. Ryan’s plan is devoid of credible math or hard policy choices. And it couldn’t pass even if Republicans were to take the presidency and both houses of Congress. Mr. Romney and Mr. Ryan have no plan to take on Wall Street, the Fed, the military-industrial complex, social insurance or the nation’s fiscal calamity and no plan to revive capitalist prosperity — just empty sermons.
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/201...et-fairy-tale/
Well that would appear to be the case with DarrinS as he has added nothing of any value to the conversation.
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