After weeks of rumors, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney finally announced his pick for his vice-presidential running mate - Rep. Paul Ryan from Wisconsin.
Ryan is the chairman of the House of Representatives' Budget Committee, and is a co-author of what the New York Daily News calls the House GOP's "deeply ambitious, and controversial, budget overhaul."
Ryan has served as the southeastern corner of Wisconsin's Congressman for nearly seven terms.
Since the announcement, reactionary statements have been flying from both sides of the ticket.
President Obama's campaign manager, Jim Messina, wasted no time sending out a statement, in which he said Romney's pick is evidence that Romney has effectively "doubled down on his commitment to take our country back to the failed policies of the past," essentially criticizing Ryan's efforts to overhaul the country's budget.
The Daily News also quotes opinions of both fans and opponents of Ryan, saying Republicans will find that he will "energize" the GOP and force the Obama camp to step up their game.
However, the article says Ryan may prove to be "a bitter pill to swallow" for senior citizens, who may not like Ryan's radical viewpoints on the federal budget and, more specifically, Medicare.
The Huffington Post says, however, that both liberals and conservatives should be "thrilled" with Romney's surprise pick of Ryan, who is 23 years his junior, citing many nicknames already being given to the pair, such as "America's Comeback Duo" or "The Dream Ticket."
Editor-in-Chief Arianna Huffington tweeted Saturday morning that Romney's pick has solidified the fact that the November presidential election has ultimately become "a very clear choice between two distinct ideologies."
PATCH WANTS TO KNOW - What do you think of Romney's pick of Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate? Share your thoughts in the comments section below.
Justin, thank you for finally acknowledging this. I knew it was just a matter of time before you would come around. Now, I will attempt to 'splain to you why Reich's and the dems' demand side/Keynesian economics (aka, Obamanomics) doesn't work. Please have a pencil, notepad and your iPhone calculator handy: The argument: P1: Demand-side (Keynesian economics) requires that government give money to consumers, who in turn need to spend the money. P2: In order to give money to consumers, government must take money from consumers. P3: If money injected = money taken, net gain is zero. P4: If net gain is zero, no net aggregate demand is created, or can be created. C. Demand-side economics refutes itself.
his obnoxious smile.I'll take boring intelligent,honest Romney any day over Obama Axelrod was pathetic on Chris Wallace today and Wallace was all over him..JUST WATCH THE LIES AT THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.THEY ALL ARE A BUNCH OF DIRTY POLITICIANS. PRAY WE KICK THEM ALL THE WAY BACK TO CHICAGO!!!!!!!
ID SAY FROM WHAT HE WRITES , HE IS STONED.
IM WITH YOU .. ENCOURAGE EVERYONE TO VOTE....
homophobe to boot.. why drag that into it ... how childish
now , you know the ones we are talking about are gonna crawl to the polls for the second time in their lives to do what they did 4 yrs ago ... there is no question to that ... after all would you like to loose all that free stuff?
He attacked Obama for the closing of an auto plant, even though Ryan opposed the auto bailout and the plant closed during Bush's term. (The plant was in Ryan's district, so if anyone should have worked to save that plant it would be Ryan himself!) He also attacked Obama for ignoring the Simpson-Bowles deficit reduction plan, even though Ryan was one of the Republicans that killed the plan. He complained that Obama stole $716 billion from Medicare, even though Ryan's own plan also "steals" that amount from medicare. The difference is that Obama's plan takes the money from insurance companies and makes Medicare solvent another 8 years, while Ryan's plan takes if from elderly recipients and uses it to fund tax cuts for the rich. He also blamed Obama for the credit downgrade, even though the credit agency blamed the Republican's opposition to tax increases. Yes, all politicians stretch the truth, but Ryan obliterates it. Case in point, his assertion that he once ran a marathon in "under 2 hours" when it was actually just over three hours!
1. "He [Con. Paul Ryan] attacked Obama for the closing of an auto plant, even though Ryan opposed the auto bailout and the plant closed during Bush's term." Ryan wasn’t blaming Obama for closing that Wisconsin plant. As he said in his speech. “President Barack Obama came to office during an economic crisis, as he has reminded us a time or two.” Ryan said, “Those were very tough days, and any fair measure of his record has to take that into account.” This election is not about what happened before Obama become president. It’s about his failure to make things better, and it is about where we are going in the future. Obama didn’t close that factory — but he hasn’t re-opened it either. Despite telling the people of Janesville that was the plan. When GM announced in October 2008 that it would be halting production there, then-candidate Obama said, “As president, I will lead an effort to retool plants like the GM facility in Janesville so we can build the fuel-efficient cars of tomorrow and create good-paying jobs in Wisconsin and all across America.” Though Obama got his bailout, the people of Janesville are still waiting for that re-tooling. It’s that failure to accomplish the very goals he set out for himself that is the greatest indictment of Obama’s presidency. Bottom line: Pres. Obama broke his promise to bring prosperity back to Janesville.
Simpson-Bowles was contingent upon the implementation of Obamacare. No way would Ryan or any good conservative, or any fiscally responsible person, for that matter, turn one-sixth of our economy, i.e., the entire healthcare industry, over to the guberment. No way! He did the right thing. And yes, even though Pres. Obama commissioned Simpson-Bowles, he completely ignored their recommendations.
Yes, Ian, Obamacare is taking some of the money from insurance companies. But it is also taking it from the healthcare providers, i.e., doctors, nurses hospitals, clinics, etc. The practical outcome of Obamacare will be that elderly patients on Medicare will no longer be able to find competent doctors, hospitals, etc. to treat them because the providers will be losing money on each patient. It has already been documented that one sixth of the hospitals will go out of business. Obamacare is designed to lead us to guberment controlled managed care (i.e., universal healthcare) since it will irreparably damage our current healthcare system. And then there is the Independent Payment Advisory Board component of Obamacare which will effectively ration healthcare for seniors. So Ian, if you love your parents, you should never be in favor of Obamacare.
Actually Ian, Ryan claimed he ran just under 3 hours when it was actually just over 4 hours. See Ian, even you can't get it right...
Today, Sept. 3, 2012, under Pres. Barack H. Obama, the national debt has now hit $16 trillion. Pres. Obama has added more to the national debt in a single term than GW Bush did in two terms. Three and a half years ago, a freshly-inaugurated President Obama said of his plan to fix the financial crisis that “if I don’t have this done in three years, then there’s going to be a one-term proposition.” I encourage all to help make Pres. Obama fulfill at least this one promise.