Paul Ryan Wants to Throw 1.8 Million People Off Of Food Stamps for Having a Car
One of the most outrageous components of the Farm Bill is that millionaire Rep. Paul Ryan wants to deny people food stamps if they own adequate transportation.
One of the most outrageous components of the Farm Bill is that millionaire Rep. Paul Ryan wants to deny people food stamps if they own adequate transportation.
Paul Ryan ignored the evidence, and wove a web of lies in an attempt to insinuate that President Obama was involved in the IRS scandal.
Paul Ryan got his world rocked at a recent town hall when one of the victims of the sequester, a.k.a. a ‘taker’ burst his Ayn Rand bubble. Ryan’s response was to lie, and blame Obama for everything.
Reid mocked the Republicans, ‘It seems House Republicans don’t want to be seen discussing even the possibility of compromise with Democrats, for fear that there will be a Tea Party revolt.’
If you keep your eye on Paul Ryan, you’ll note that he’s running as fast as he can from the budget reconciliation process that he demanded.
The President’s budget proposals contain a great deal of Democrats’ long-cherished wishes and few are paying any attention.
After wanting it more than anything else, Paul Ryan (R-WI) dismissed the President’s offer of chained CPI today, saying it isn’t entitlement reform – it’s just “clarifying a statistic.”
The NRCC is accusing Democrats of voting to keep devastating Medicare cuts in place while at the same time accusing them of not voting for Paul Ryan’s budget. You know, the one that turns Medicare into a voucher system.
The Republican class war has, for well over a decade, contributed greatly to income inequality that hastens America’s rush to oligarchy, and the primary driver is trickle down tax cuts.
As Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) budget advances toward the finishing line in the Republican-led House, a new Rasmussen poll shows Ryan flailing with a 15 point drop.
Eric Cantor and Paul Ryan have purposely created crisis after crisis in an attempt to get middle class and poor Americans to pay the debts that they ran up under Bush.
Paul Ryan is lying to justify inflicting more pain on the American people for the sheer joy of giving the richest 1% nearly 15% in tax cuts.
On Face The Nation today, Rep. Paul Ryan reversed years of budgets and claims that the country faces an immediate debt crisis by admitting that there is no debt crisis.
Paul Ryan took the stage at CPAC, and completely ignored the reality that he and his ideas lost the 2012 election.
There is no doubt the Kochs and their corporate arm ALEC are out to end the healthcare system starting with Medicare and Medicaid.
Between Ryan’s budget and the CPAC lineup, it should be painfully apparent that the new extremist Republicans will not rest until poverty is rampant, children starve, and seniors perish.
Sarah Palin’s upcoming book complaining about the commercialism of Christmas doesn’t mean she’s back. Palin is just doing a drive-by cash pick up from the easily exploitable.
Paul Ryan admitted that his budget is based on the lie that Obamacare adds to the deficit, and without it being repealed, his budget doesn’t work.
Americans are being held responsible for Republicans’ debt for two unnecessary wars, costly prescription plan, tax cuts for the rich, and gifts to the oil industry.
Paul Ryan’s budget is so out of touch with reality that even Fox News had to call out his repeal Obamacare BS.
Senate Republicans plan to withhold funding to keep the government running as hostage for a ransom of defunding the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare).
Koch brothers’ front group, Americans for Prosperity (AFP), sent congratulations to Republicans and their supporters around the country for helping push the sequester cuts.
Eric Cantor has confirmed that he and Paul Ryan talked John Boehner out of accepting a “Grand Bargain” with Obama in 2011. It was this rejection that led to the sequester.
Rep. Paul Ryan went on CNBC today, looked straight into the camera, and completely lied about the sequester to the American people.
Contrary to what Republicans are saying now, the sequester is a largely Republican idea. In fact, Jack Kingston (R-GA) proposed sequestration in December of 2010.
Paul Ryan has been pushing for sequestration since 2004. He bragged about getting it in 2011. Now that it’s here, Ryan thinks it’s not good government.
North Carolina’s Governor, Pat McCrory is a classic example of why when Republicans govern, government is the problem.
While trying to blame Obama for the sequester, Paul Ryan referenced the smart cuts that the House has passed. Those ‘smarter cuts’ would take away food and healthcare for 600,000 kids.
The mainstream finally stepped up today,and on separate Sunday shows, challenged the lies and talking points of Republicans Paul Ryan and John McCain.
Sen. Rubio has a long way to go with the Hispanic community before he can deliver what the Republican Party thinks his skin color will automatically garner them.
After all of the time, money and energy Republicans put into attacking Hillary Clinton over Benghazi, it turns out America loves her best.
Although the right wing bible crowd is solidly behind any politician promising to impose the bible’s sanctions on women and gays, the rest of America is moving forward and supporting Obama’s agenda.
One can say with confidence that when Republicans find an economic policy that fails, they are duty-bound to repeat it regardless the consequences.
What Americans are witnessing today is the culmination of four years of ultra-right wing propaganda inciting fear of change and hatred for other Americans; all Americans.
Paul Ryan (R-WI) spent an entire clip impugning President Obama’s motives and then wrapped it up by lecturing that we can’t move forward by impugning people’s motives.
Buried deep in Ryan’s latest Fetus Rights Bill is a section that will allow a rapist to sue his victim in order to stop her from getting an abortion.
Republican spin master Frank Luntz thinks the Republican Party can fix its public image by using better language to connect with the public.
Apparently, voter rejection of extremist views against women in the recent election is lost on Republicans because they are persisting in attacking women’s reproductive rights as the primary focus of their war on women.
Jon Stewart ripped the 67 House Republicans who voted no on flood insurance funding for Sandy victims, and exposed the hypocrisy behind their ideology.
Paul Ryan justified his no vote for Sandy victims claiming that maintaining the existing flood insurance relief program was irresponsible.
Paul Ryan and 66 other House Republicans tried to rip off victims of Hurricane Sandy who filed flood insurance claims by voting to deny them their money.
Paul Ryan (R-WI) explains his yes vote on the fiscal cliff deal, praising the House for ‘providing certainty’ by making lower taxes permanent.
That low rumble you’re hearing about a challenge to Speaker Boehner from conservatives now has a name attached to it — RepublicanTom Price.
Republicans are megalomaniacs who will continue punishing the people for re-electing President Obama to raise taxes on the wealthy by holding the economy hostage to enact austerity.
The #FireBoehner hashtag really took off last night on Twitter. No, it wasn’t evil liberals, it was the conservatives at American Majority Action (AMA) who started it.
The latest joke from Republicans was offered up by Eric Cantor who called for Obama to put Obamacare on the table for elimination in order for Republicans to compromise on revenue increases.
School privatization is the new Gold Rush. There is money to be made in them there hills. And charter schools are the the Republican hammer to be used to prise it out of our hands.
Showing that he learned absolutely nothing from getting his ass kicked on Election Day, Paul Ryan returned to the House to whine about Obama’s leadership and boss around the president.
The Religious Right took a black eye in 2012 but they are far from powerless and will be back to attack the Constitution in 2016
Paul Ryan says Obama’s path compromises some non-existent values; the real problem is that Obama stands between Ryan and the Constitution
Mitt Romney took to CNN’s opinion page to lie about his vision for America but his real vision is somewhat different
With Hurricane Sandy, Republican fantasy met the facts on the ground and lost; our shared reality is more potent than wishful thinking
The panic of some of the left after the first debate has eased into the realization that President Obama is in a good position to win a second term.
Romney is right that there is a morality problem in America, but it rests solely with himself and Republicans who are willing to, slash funding for emergency disaster relief and early warning systems.
Romney is lying because Romney has to lie. It’s the best card he has to play in a stacked deck, betting on the ignorance and short term memory of the electorate.
As the East Coast braces for a massive storm, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are trying to cover up the fact that if elected they intend to cut funding for both FEMA and disaster relief.
Richard Mourdock’s so-called extremist view is the mainstream position of the Republican Party including the party’s presidential ticket.
The GOP is headed into Election Day as the Party of Rape, a group of white fratboys who never grew up
Mitt Romney wants Richard Mourdock, who thinks rape pregnancies are a gift from God, changing things in Washington, D.C.
An empty suit of a man who couldn’t even fake giving a damn about our troops.
America’s worst nightmare is a Romney presidency bolstered by conservative Christians in Congress and a bible-based Supreme Court.
Ask yourself why the laws of mathematics work differently for Mitt Romney than for the rest of the universe before casting your vote in 2012
Fox News is still so angry over the debate beating that Joe Biden gave Paul Ryan that they are insinuating that the Vice President of the United States is sexist.
Republicans are the party of hate and their standard bearer, Willard Romney, has proven he is the avatar of hate toward the American people, but especially women.
V.P. Joe Biden warned women today what was at stake in the election, saying that the Romney’Ryan ticket has a social policy out of the 1950’s.
To suggest that t Obama should have handled Romney’s lies like Biden did Ryan’s is to miss the bigger point: These two Republicans are not the same kinds of liars.
Paul Ryan’s gulping was so evident that Obama for America released a new web video that that pokes fun at Congressman Ryan’s endless thirst.
Paul Ryan said that elected officials should be in charge of Row V Wade, raising the alarm bell that a Romney/Ryan admin intends to implement the Personhood Amendment.
Paul Ryan made clear last night that he wants his religious beliefs to inform our decisions, while claiming it is his that are under attack
It was a night when Democrats needed a morale boost, and Vice President Joe Biden delivered with a dominating performance over Paul Ryan in the vice presidential debate.
Ryan’s budget plan is heartless, bad for America and when properly scrutinized, indefensible. At the VP debate, Joe Biden will keep smiling and watch the young kid strangle himself.
The Romney campaign threw a fit tonight and cut off an interview when a local reporter asked Paul Ryan a tax cut question. If Ryan can’t handle the local media, how will he deal with Joe Biden?
When pressed during a local Wisconsin interview, Paul Ryan admitted that the whole Romney tax plan is based on the trickle down theory that more tax cuts will magically bring growth and prosperity.
Mitt Romney is a clueless hologram, an image without substance who likes the idea of talking about being president.
A 70-year-old retired store owner told the Columbus Dispatch ‘All you have to do is look at the Republican platform. I’ve never seen such HATE this year in the Republican Party, national or state.’
While speaking to Fox News Sunday, Paul Ryan started laying the groundwork for his excuse if Obama gets reelected by claiming that the media is biased and wants Obama to win.
David Gregory twice asserted an inaccurate Obama quote while advancing a Republican argument against President Obama’s foreign policy today on Meet the Press.
The GOP ticket’s attendance problems aren’t just limited to Mitt Romney. 2,000 people turned out for Vice President Biden in Florida, while Paul Ryan spoke to a crowd of 725 in New Hampshire.
You would think that in 2012 we’d be in a position to say goodbye to patriarchy but instead it has become the focus of the Republican Party
Since Ryan was chosen as Romney’s running mate, he attempted to distance himself from his devotion to Randian ideology, but his budget and audio tapes remain.
When Mitt Romney wandered off script and admitted that Obama hasn’t raised taxes, Paul Ryan looked like someone just punched him in the stomach.
In an interview with 60 Minutes, Romney claimed that his comments that 47% of Americans are victims was him talking, not his campaign, and so they aren’t hurting his campaign.
Paul Ryan tried selling the AARP on his Medicare privatization plan and attacks on ObamaCare and was met with groans and boos by the crowd in attendance.
It’s so nice to know what Mitt Romney really thinks of our troops, the elderly, the working poor and students who comprise the 47%.
If Romney loses Michigan or Massachusetts and wins the White House, he will be the first candidate since 1916 to lose his home state and win the presidency. He’s not only losing his two home states, but Ryan’s as well.
Romney’s comments revealed his true feelings about Americans who are struggling, but he articulated in stark terms the entire Republican Party’s contempt for the American people.
Republicans in Congress have barely accomplished anything except blocking economic recovery and attacking women’s rights, and now they are taking two months off while taxpayers are still paying them.
Nancy Pelosi did everything but send Mitt Romney a thank you card and a fruit basket, while discussing how the GOP nominee helped House Democrats by picking Paul Ryan.
The Values Voters Summit was not an expression of American values or a representation of the Constitution’s guarantee of freedom and equal rights.
Ryan poured gasoline on the fire today and then, like a little boy dropping the pyro’s match and running, disingenuously renamed the goal of a Romney Ryan administration as ‘peace’.
Paul Ryan sang the praises of first responders on 9/11, but what he didn’t tell his audience is that he and his running mate have long planned on cutting their federal funding.
The Romney campaign sent out a rather breathless memo this morning warning the press to not get too worked up about the latest polling and Nate Silver is being admonished to ‘wait’.
Paul Ryan claimed today that he has more foreign policy experience that President Obama had in 2008, but a look at the congressional committees that each served on tells a vastly different story.
Paul Ryan fell apart today when George Stephanopoulos asked the deer in headlights vice presidential nominee how Mitt Romney will pay for $5 trillion in tax cuts for the rich.
Bill Clinton’s delivered a dose of DNC truth serum to Romney, Ryan, and their crowd of habitual liars, religious sycophants, and gun-toting angry white people.
Since we know it is possible we may soon be told we must give birth, how much of a stretch is it to imagine someone might tell us we can’t?
The Democrats missed an opportunity to take a step forward for the Founders’ vision of a secular government by putting God in their platform
In an interview with NBC, Bill Clinton turned Paul Ryan over his knee and gave the Ayn Rand worshiper a quick verbal spanking.
Paul Ryan has been hypocritically denouncing ObamaCare while trying to extract the benefits of it for his constituency, while also funding a family planning facility.