Rep. Gerry Connolly called Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, whom Mitt Romney just chose as his vice president, an “amiable radical” in a conversation with Patch on Saturday.
Connolly, a Democrat representing Virginia’s 11th district, served with Rep. Paul Ryan on the House Budget Committee for two years from 2009 – 2011.
“[Rep. Paul Ryan] has the least experience and he is the most radical,” Connolly said, noting Paul’s relatively young age, 42. Ryan has been a Wisconsin representative since 1999.
Ryan has proposed significant cuts at the federal level in order to decrease the federal debt. Those proposals were outlined in Ryan’s “Path to Prosperity” proposal in March and included reducing individual and corporate tax rates in addition to repealing many of President Barack Obama’s policies.
“This budget reforms the broken tax code to spur job creation and economic opportunity by lowering rates, closing loopholes, and putting hardworking taxpayers ahead of special interests. The pro-growth reforms ensure the tax code is fair, simple, and competitive,” according to Ryan’s plan.
Connolly countered this morning: “As a result we’ll have to gut programs, gut Head Start, gut student loans, gut infrastructure, gut transportation and all the work Congress has done for the past 100 years.”
Romney made a speech Saturday morning in Norfolk officially announcing his selection, who was reportedly on the short list.
joined Romney and Ryan at this morning’s Romney “Blue state” bus tour campaign stop at the USS Wisconsin; he is scheduled to campaign with Romney on a bus tour across Virginia Saturday.
Connolly also called the announcement “stunning.”
“This is a Hail Mary pass in the third quarter,” said Connolly. “It’s a last-ditch effort in a losing campaign.”
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Neither do you do a very good job of supporting your candidates in this election. On the one hand, you point out how this region is dependent on government spending for its wealth. On the other hand, you criticize Connelly for supporting government spending and revere Ryan and Romney who wish to slash it. It follows that the loss of Connelly or the election of Ryan/Romney could be devestating to our regional economy.
Please define "Tea Party" and please define "Peronists" (actual term; "Peronistas") and give three precepts of each and three proponents/members of each. Please cite your sources.
A powerful movie and the truth about Barack Obama that has never been exposed to the public. The government does not want you to watch this movie! http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/08/22/a_powerful_movie_115175.html
About budgets, I have to hand it to the guy – at least he is trying to put budgets on the table, which is more than most on either side of the aisle have done. But I have to agree that his budgets have been pretty radical. His first two proposed budgets couldn’t even make it out of our very conservative House. His third one barely made it out of the House. But there are huge questions about his budget, based on unknowable assumptions and with no surety that it will even work, not to mention so many deep cuts that it could put our economy (and at-risk people) at even greater risk. All legitimate resources I have read about his budget (e.g. the Congressional Budget Office, the Pew Charitable Trust and the Brookings Institute) all essentially say that his budget will not work. Interestingly, an article appeared in yesterdays’ Post about this, called, “Five Myths About Paul Ryan’s Budget,” written by a former director of the Office of Management and Budget: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-paul-ryans-budget/2012/08/23/757b3718-eba0-11e1-a80b-9f898562d010_story.html
President Obama was the first President to be able to pass a health care reform act. Presidents Obama captured Osama Bin Laden. President Obama stopped our military’s discrimination against gay Americans. President Obama got us out of Iraq. President Obama was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize. In the face of economic recession, President Obama saved the U.S. auto industry from collapse. While on the brink of depression, President Obama took the bold steps necessary to bring our country back into a slow but steady economic recovery, signing the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, as well as the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act. Unemployment under President Obama has been on a slow and steady decline, President Obama negotiated and signed the New START nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia, the first successfully ratified START treaty since 1991. President Obama has re-focused our county’s efforts on environmental protection and decreasing our dependence on foreign oil by improving Federal standards for auto emissions and by investing in research for alternative fuels and clean energy resources.
Evidently he's still working on curing the blind, as evidenced by the previous comment.
Obama did not "capture" Bin Laden--Obama and Valerie Jarrett tried to repeatedly thwart the mission that killed Bin Laden, until Leon Panetta had had enough and ordered the green light. Obama was called in off the golf course after the fact, was told by his betters to sit down and shut up and be glad he could publicly, falsely take credit for it. Cont.'
Obama didn't get us out of Iraq, Bush's timetable did. The Nobel prize awarded to Obama has made a laughingstock out of the Nobel prize committee. Obama didn't "save" the auto industry, it is still barely on life support and Obama looted investors' money to buy 500,000 shares of stock at $100/share which is now worth $20/share. The whole operation is one big union graft scheme, with non-union people being thrown out on their ears. Shameful! Nationalizing industries is what socialist dictators do. Romney was right, a managed bankruptcy according to the law is what was called for. Cont.'
Employment remains stagnant and millions are jumping onto the disability rolls, encouraged by democrats who want more and more voters dependent on them. Obama has gutted the missile defense capability of our allies and laid open the throat of the West to the dubious intentions of his true partners, the anti-Western powers around the globe. Obama's endless carbon communist hoaxes are driving up the price of energy (intentionally) and the price of cars; cafe standards planned will add $15,000 to the price of a car! Obama's goal--cutting America down to size--is proceeding smoothly. Marxists can be happy and proud that their Dear Leader is well on his way to a socialist utopia. But this is America, after all, and president Romney along with vice president Ryan are coming to the rescue.
Remember that joke about the Russian losing the two man race to the American, where Pravda headlined the story "Russian wins second place while American comes in next to last"? Technically true, but totally divorced from reality. That's the mindset of the Obama omidons. It's not worth the effort to debate them. In the Middle Ages, it was called "Invincible Ignorance". Meanwhile, we root for Obama not to have a penultimate finish in the coming election. See you over coffee - you buy.
Then Don Joy had to chime in with a bunch of half-truths and more anti-Obama talkng points, which he likely picked up from RedState.com or Fox News ( same thing, eh? I love watching the political extremes bash each other back and forth, sort of reminds me of "Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots," with just as little effect in the real world!
Totally lacking in class. Are you Joe Biden?
http://www.independentsentinel.com/2012/09/president-reaches-into-veterans-pockets-with-new-executive-order-repost/
As a reward for their long and many combat tours, he will soon throw 150,000 of them out into the street to compete for non-existent jobs with 23 million unemployed and 11 million illegal aliens. And to make sure they don't get too uppity, his henchmen will make sure that their votes are impeded or blocked across the country by complicit democrat Secretaries of State and county voting registrars who will delay sending out military ballots. In the Obama/Holder regime, it is easier to vote if you are dead, an illegal alien, or a college student voting twice at home AND school. If you are in the Afghan mountains, you are out of luck. But if by chance you end up dead, you will get a machine-generated letter of condolence from Obama, ( http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/09/02/families-deceased-seals-claim-presidential-condolence-letters-signed-with-auto/ ).