This is just one.
Head over to Buzzfeed where there are 5 or 6 more FL newspapers sharing the same sentiment.
FL newspapers: Paul Ryan could be liability in FL
5 things you need to know about Mitt Romney’s VP Pick
Obama campaign on Paul Ryan’s budget plan
Remember, all the cuts (education, Medicare, Medicaid) are to help pay for a tax cut for the wealtiest. The “theory” is that the wealthy would take those funds and create jobs.
However – ten years into the Bush tax cuts and we’re not seeing the jobs that were promised by THOSE tax cuts.
So why believe more tax cuts for the wealthy would create jobs now?
Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan picked as GOP VP nominee
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Congressman Paul Ryan was announced today as Mitt Romney’s running mate in the 2012 election.
Here’s the short version of Paul Ryan’s positions on issues of note:
- Voted against repeal of DADT
- Voted twice for the failed Federal Marriage Amendment
- Voted in favor of the Marriage Protection Act that would have Federal courts from even considering overturning DOMA
- Voted against the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009
- Paul Ryan’s budget plan – The Path To Prosperity – would turn Medicare into a voucher system whereby the government would give a set amount to seniors and tell them to go find private insurance using those funds.
- Ryan’s plan would slash food stamps for poor Americans
- Ryan’s plan would raise taxes on those who make less than $30K, but give a 12.5% tax cut to the wealthiest
- Ryan supports privatizing Social Security. For seniors whose retirement is tied to the stock market, many would have seen their retirement savings decimated in the stock market crash of 2008
- In all, 62 percent of the budget cuts proposed by Ryan would come from low-income programs.
So there you go. If that sounds good to you, make a run with Romney and Ryan.
If not, think about the fact that:
- We’ve had 26 consecutive months of job growth coming out of the the worst recession in decades
- The war in Iraq had ended
- We are leaving Afghanistan
- A major reason those wars happened – Osama bin Laden, who organized the attack on 9/11 – was captured and killed under the Obama Administration
- DADT is history
- The stock market has doubled
- Millions of people have better health coverage than they did three years ago
There’s your choice.
President Obama opposes Boy Scouts gay discrimination
Well, it looks like this is about the only thing Mitt Romney and the President agree on. They both think the Boy Scouts of America should allow gays to participate.
“The President believes the Boy Scouts is a valuable organization that has helped educate and build character in American boys for more than a century,” White House spokesperson Shin Inouye said in the statement to The Washington Blade. “He also opposes discrimination in all forms, and as such opposes this policy that discriminates on basis of sexual orientation.”
Inouye also told The Blade that the President will not resign his position as honorary president of the organization as a result of this decision.
More at the Advocate
President Obama hits back at Romney “welfare” distortion
This ad hits back at the Mitt Romney ad released earlier this week which falsely accused President Obama of weakening work requirements for welfare recipients.
In reality, the Obama administration is simply giving states the ability to experiment with new work programs, along the lines of a reform that Romney himself requested in 2005.
As the directive from the Department of Health and Human Services states, “HHS is encouraging states to consider new, more effective ways to meet the goals of [Temporary Assistance for Needy Families], particularly helping parents successfully prepare for, find, and retain employment.”
HHS says it will cancel waivers that do not further TANF’s goals.
CBS’s AdWatch said of Romney’s ad, “It’s a leap to assume that governors and legislators will seek to return to ‘plain old welfare’ and that the Obama administration will give them the go-ahead.”
Hey Mitt – “It’s time to put up”
Are you a “Romneygirl”?
From the “RomneyGirl” website:
“Miss Swiss “Bank Account” hails from Ostermundigen, Switzerland and is the proud daughter of a Nestle Chocolate factory worker and a regionally respected Cuckoo clock maker. She worked as a tax consultant for offshore bank accounts at UBS in Geneva, Switzerland from 2008-2010 where she first met Mitt Romney, who would frequently show up to the bank unannounced and throw $100 bills up in the air while shouting, “Thank God for Amnesty!”
“In 2010, Miss Swiss left Geneva (after safely depositing all of her own money into a Swiss bank account) and moved to Searchlight, Nevada, where she joined a small Swiss expat community of retired yodelers and milkmaids. It was there she bumped into Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid while burning his book “The Good Fight” during a local sheep-shearing festival. Miss Swiss told Senator Reid about Mr. Romney’s tax avoidance “because I thought it was so funny that a Senator would actually think that rich people pay taxes! So silly!” Miss Swiss has not heard from Mr. Romney since he began his Presidential run, but believes he is following her on Twitter @realromneygirl.”
“In her free time, Miss Swiss, AKA Romney Girl, enjoys watching sitcoms like Fox & Friends, climbing the Swiss Alps, making cheese fondue, and listening to her favorite pop band Aqua.”
“Romney Girl recently gained public attention for inadvertently informing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid that that Mitt Romney had paid zero taxes in the last ten years.”
Romney spokesperson says people would be better off under Massachusett’s healthcare law, the foundation for Obamacare
In an ad by Priorities USA Action, a super PAC supporting Obama, Joe Soptic, a steelworker who was laid off from a plant owned by Romney-founded Bain Capital, discusses his wife’s cancer and eventual death.
Soptic said his family lost health insurance after he was laid off.
A Mitt Romney spokesperson offered an unusual counterattack Tuesday to the ad: If that family had lived in Massachusetts, it would have been covered by the former governor’s universal health care law.
“To that point, if people had been in Massachusetts, under Governor Romney’s health care plan, they would have had health care,” Andrea Saul, Romney’s campaign press secretary, said during an appearance on Fox News. “There are a lot of people losing their jobs and losing their health care in President [Barack] Obama’s economy.”
The health care law Romney helped to craft and signed in 2006 is often described as a forerunner to Obama’s own health care overhaul, which passed Congress four years later without a single Republican vote.
Romney has said his law worked for Massachusetts but wouldn’t necessarily work in other states. He has pledged to grant every state a waiver from Obama’s law on his first day in office and said he would work to repeal the legislation in its entirety.
Countdown to flop back to the flip in 3, 2, 1…
Mrs Betty Bowers, America’s Best Christian, on Mitt Romney’s tax returns
From Mrs. Betty Bowers, America’s Best Christian: “Funny how people who haven’t seen Mitt’s tax returns are calling Harry Reid a liar, while John McCain, who has seen them, isn’t.”