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cal04's JournalPaul Krugman Blasts Paul Ryan Budget Plan: It's 'Flimflam' (Video)
Paul Krugman doubled down on his criticism of Paul Ryan's budget plan on Wednesday night, and called the vice-presidential candidate a figment of Republicans' imagination.
The economist has been a vocal critic of Ryan's budget. On Wednesday, he appeared on Current TV to analyze the plan with Al Gore — who is hosting the network's coverage of the conventions — and hosts Eliot Spitzer and Jennifer Granholm.
Krugman said that Ryan's plan would leave "tens of millions" of people without health insurance. Gore said that his understanding is that it would take money from the poor and give it to the rich while increasing the budget deficit.
Krugman said that was indeed the case. "How can (Ryan) get away with this?" he asked incredulously. "World's greatest nation falls for this flimflam?"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/29/paul-krugman-ryan-republicans_n_1841600.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003&ir=Politics
video at link
Think Progress: Portman asks: “where is Obama’s jobs bill?” It’s right here, senator.
Welcome to ThinkProgress’ primetime Wednesday coverage of the Republican National Convention. We’re here all night to fact check and debunk the claims of the GOP’s brightest stars. Here is our guide to Wednesday’s speakers.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/08/29/770001/rnc-wednesday/
9:04: Portman says Romney has a “detailed economic plan.” Actually, Romney’s plan is notorious for its lack of specifics, and his advisers have said it’s “politically unwise” to offer them.
9:04: Portman asks: “where is Obama’s jobs bill?” It’s right here, senator.
9:00: Welcome to stage, Sen. Rob Portman! He served as George W. Bush’s director of the Office of Management and Budget, during a period when the national debt increased by $500 billion.
http://www.americanjobsact.com/
To create jobs, the President unveiled the American Jobs Act – nearly all of which is made up of ideas that have been supported by both Democrats and Republicans, and that Congress should pass right away to get the economy moving now.
The purpose of the American Jobs Act is simple: put more people back to work and put more money in the pockets of working Americans – without adding a dime to the deficit.
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9:09: Ryan will give middle and lower class Americans “hope and opportunity for the future,” Portman claims. Forgets to mention that Ryan’s budget gets 62% of its non-defense budget cuts from programs for low-income Americans:
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The Neocons are congregating in Florida, awaiting the ascension of Jesus of Bain Capital on Thursday evening. But many of the party faithful are lamenting the fact that the media is focusing more on Rep. Todd Akin’s “legitimate rape” lunacy and lack of an 8th grader’s understanding of human reproduction than the dog-n-pony show in downtown Tampa.
And why shouldn’t they? Akin’s views are shared by VEEP wannabe Paul Ryan, and the fact is that many of the House Republicans espouse odd ideologies more suited to Bellevue than the Beltway. Mainstream right-wing movers and shakers are tasked with the containment of the more rabid in their ranks to keep them off the public stage until after the election. Akin’s beliefs – bizarre and outrageous as they may be – are hardly the oddest ducks in the pond.
Who are the GOP House members you won’t be hearing in Tampa this week?
It’s doubtful anybody will hand a mic to Mac Thornberry of Texas. Despite his state’s severe drought and its crippling effects on agriculture, he’s a vocal climate change science denier, suggesting that “praying for rain” is all that’s necessary to solve the whole global climate change thingy.
Also in Texas, you’ll remember Rep. Joe L. Barton’s apology to the polluting BP oil executives for making them testify at a hearing on the largest oil spill in US history. Barton also eschews pointy-headed, environmentally friendly, petrol alternatives, like wind energy, claiming that wind is “God’s way of balancing heat,” so we better not touch it, lest we make the earth even hotter by disturbing the sacred breath of God – or something. You can’t make this stuff up.
Representative John Shimkus of Illinois is a similar Luddite, claiming that there’s nothing to fear in the rising planetary temperatures and resulting looming ecological disasters – it’s just part of the End of Days as foretold in the Bible. Amen. See? We’ve got nothing to fear, it’s just God’s will we all boil to death . . . . Shimkus is not on the convention speaker list, but he is the chairman of the House subcommittee on the Environment and the Economy <shudder>
The bonkers blathering of Rep. Michele Bachmann is now legendary. Her disdain for any non-Biblical wisdom is evident in everything from her claim that a vaccine to prevent cervical cancer in women could lead to mental retardation, that there are no studies that show co 2 is harmful to the environment, that gay marriage is the biggest threat to people in Minnesota, that the people of Iraq should reimburse the US for what they’ve done to us (?!), and that the Lord Almighty told her to run for office. That’s just the more recent stuff.
Also notably absent under the GOP Big Top is one of Florida’s very own – Rep. Allen West – who is being kept under wraps lest he start blabbering about how liberal women neuter American men, thereby contributing to the national debt (don’t ask . . .). Or that Democrats should leave America as they are trying to reinstitute slavery.
This is just the short list. The Republican House is choc-a-bloc with a variety of mixed nuts, many in leadership positions. Guess that’s what happens when your titular leader likes his Merlot with a little more Merlot
Gotta feel sorry for the GOParty Leaders, so difficult to keep that many crazy skeletons in the closet. But should anyone think Akin is just some fringe party kook – he’s actually a standard-bearer.
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Democrats in Tampa: What did Romney build?
Democrats wasted no time on Tuesday trying to undercut Republicans as they began their convention, attacking a key GOP message before party luminaries took the spotlight in Tampa.
Republicans aggressively pushed their convention theme, "We Built It," while Democrats sought to turn it back on Mitt Romney, who was affirmed as the nominee by a roll call of delegates in the first significant moments of the event.
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"So as Republicans continue to distort the president's words and push their 'We built that' theme in Tampa," Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said from the "war room" Democrats have set up in downtown Tampa near the convention site. "It's worth asking: What did (Mitt) Romney build?"
Villaraigosa, chair of next week's Democratic convention in Charlotte, answered his own question - "A bank account in Switzerland, investments in Bermuda and the Caymans, and an inexplicably large IRA. That's what he built."
http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/28/politics/dem-counter-conventions/index.html
Black Caucus Slams Artur Davis Ahead of Speech
http://atr.rollcall.com/black-caucus-slams-artur-davis-ahead-of-speech/Members of the Congressional Black Caucus are accusing former Rep. Artur Davis of “transparent opportunism” ahead of his speech to the Republican National Convention, scheduled for this evening.
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The letter, signed by 14 CBC members, accuses Davis of distorting Obama’s record and flip-flopping on “core principles you once held dear.”
“We can only conclude that, rather than a true conversion, your actions are the result of a nakedly personal and political calculation or simmering anguish after failing to secure the Democratic nomination for governor of the State of Alabama in 2010,” the members wrote.
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They also called his support for voter identification laws “unconscionable” after he joined then-Sen. Obama in seeking the resignation of the Justice Department’s voting rights chief after he said such laws do not hurt minorities.
Biden: ‘We Owe’ The LGBT Community For Its Courage And Sacrifice
http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2012/08/27/748721/biden-we-owe-the-lgbt-community-for-its-courage-and-sacrifice/At a campaign fundraiser this weekend, Vice President Joe Biden thanked LGBT activists in Provincetown, Massachusetts for “freeing the soul of the American people” by advancing not just LGBT equality but also the “civil rights of every straight American.” He added: “Many of you have advanced civil rights at great expense. If I had to use one adjective to describe this community, it’d be courage. You have summoned the courage to speak out, to come out. We owe you.”
Biden: Gay activists 'freeing the soul of the American people'
http://www.politico.com/politico44/2012/08/biden-gay-activists-freeing-the-soul-of-the-american-133253.html
http://m.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120827/NEWS/208270316/-1/WAP&template=wapart
Romney Cites Businesswoman Who Presided Over Huge Losses And Job Cuts As Model For His Cabinet
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/08/27/747151/romney-whitman-losses/During an interview published on Monday by Politico, Mitt Romney praised one of his favorite business leaders, Hewlett Packard CEO Meg Whitman. According to Politico, Romney said that his cabinet “would be dominated by people from the private sector, citing Meg Whitman of Hewlett-Packard as a model for female leaders he would like to surround himself with.”
This isn’t the first time that Romney has pointed to Whitman — who is also the former CEO of Ebay and a former California gubernatorial candidate — as a leader to emulate. But at the moment, Whitman is presiding over a company in free-fall. HP just suffered its largest quarterly loss ever and is shedding tens of thousands of jobs:
Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ) posted a record (HPQ) quarterly loss and reported slumping sales for personal computers and services aimed at businesses, underscoring the turnaround challenge facing Chief Executive Officer Meg Whitman.
The fiscal third-quarter loss of $8.86 billion includes a writedown for the enterprise-services unit and reflects a 10 percent decline in PC revenue…Whitman is cutting 27,000 jobs over two years.
Latinos Overwhelmingly Blame Bush for Economy,65% want to re-elect Pres. Obama
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/08/27/latinos_overwhelmingly_blame_bush_for_economy.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PoliticalWire+%28Political+Wire%29A new Latino Decisions/impreMedia poll finds that 65% of Latino voters want to re-elect President Obama and 26% while prefer Mitt Romney.
"Some possible reasons for the stagnation of the Republican candidate are also reflected in the survey. One is the fact that Latino voters primarily blame former President George W. Bush for the state of the economy and not necessarily to President Obama. 68% blamed Bush for the economic downturn of recent years and only 14% blamed Obama."
Tracking Poll Wave 1: Latino vote uphill climb for Romney
Just before the beginning of the Republican National Convention in Tampa presidential candidate Mitt Romney continues to overwhelmingly lose the Latino vote and has low levels of favorability among the majority of the Latino electorate. The first weekly tracking poll of Latino registered voters by Latino Decisions and impreMedia reveals that 65% would vote to re-elect President Barack Obama and 26% would prefer the Republican alternative offered by Romney.
http://www.latinodecisions.com/blog/2012/08/27/tracking-poll-wave-1-latino-vote-uphill-climb-for-romney/
Paul Ryan hates babies
Paul Ryan hates white babies. He hates babies in all other colors too, but since the majority of babies, infants and toddlers who get fed via the Women, Infants and Children program (WIC) are statistically listed as “white” by our government, my assertion is justifiable—when talking about babies who didn't get born from elite wombs.
If I was discussing ethnicity it probably should be “Paul Ryan hates Latino babies,” since a majority of Latinos in the data self-report or are listed as "white."
No matter.
Ryan and his conservative contingent of cads want babies to go hungry, while he promotes more tax pork for the wealthy. His "Path to Prosperity" plan should more aptly be named "The Ryan Path to Poverty."
They want millions of babies, infants and pregnant moms to go hungry.
During Fiscal Year (FY) 2010, the number of women, infants, and children receiving WIC benefits each month reached approximately 9.17 million. For the first 8 months of FY 2011, States reported average monthly participation just below 9 million participants per month. In 1974, the first year WIC was permanently authorized, 88,000 people participated. By 1980, participation was at 1.9 million; by 1985, 3.1 million; by 1990, 4.5 million; and by 2000, 7.2 million. Average monthly participation for FY 2008 was approximately 8.7 million.
Children have always been the largest category of WIC participants. Of the 9.17 million people who received WIC benefits each month in FY 2010, approximately 4.86 million were children, 2.17 million were infants, and 2.14 million were women.
Ryan has three children—Elizabeth Anne, Charles Wilson and Samuel Lowery.
Romney has five—Taggart, Matthew, Joshua, Benjamin and Craig.
They had the privilege of never knowing hunger as infants. Those born without that privilege are scapegoated and targeted. You would think that being a parent would give them some empathy for other parents, and children, but it is clear that "empathy" is not a word, or ideal in the Republican lexicon. Unless it applies to eggs and fetuses.
Right now the media is awash in stories about rape and Republican insanity forcing women to give birth—all under their banner of touting “life.” This of course is rank hypocrisy writ large. You cannot be "pro-life" if you don't give a damn about the lives of the living.
more at link
Denise Oliver Velez
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/26/1123648/-Paul-Ryan-hates-babies
McCain: Akin ‘Would Not Be Welcome By Republicans In The United States Senate’
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) castigated Missouri Rep. Todd Akin, who has been urged to drop out of the Missouri Senate race as a result of his false comment about "legitimate rape" not leading to pregnancy.
"It's a problem, there's no doubt about that," McCain said on NBC's "Meet The Press." "And Mr. Akin should recognize that having the nomination of your party is a privilege. And if you abuse that privilege, then you are not eligible to keep it. What he did was unaccept— what he said was unacceptable. And we Republicans have to consider all options, and to start with, making sure that Mr. Akin knows he will not have the support of the mainstream Republican party or any of our organizations."
McCain also added: "I, like others, urge Mr. Akin to abandon his quest for the United States Senate, because, frankly, he would not be welcome by Republicans in the United States Senate."
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/mccain-akin-would-not-be-welcome-by-republicans
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