Labels: arrogance, deeply disturbing shit, Greedy Republican Bastards, I Got Mine and Fuck You, Paul Ryan

In case you haven’t heard, Paul Ryan works out. A lot, apparently; he’s so much of a “fitness guy,” as he’s said, that for days after Mitt Romney chose him as his vice-presidential candidate, the media could talk about little else but the fact that Ryan leads a group of congressmen in a daily workout called P90X, a hugely popular, high-intensity workout routine with a cultlike following.

The legend of Paul Ryan’s physical fitness got even crazier when the boy-wonder V.P. candidate bragged to Hugh Hewitt about his marathon running, claiming he’d run the 26.2-mile race in “under three [hours], high twos. I had a two hour and fifty-something. … I was fast when I was younger, yeah.”

Of course, we now know that was a lie. As Runner’s World discovered, Ryan’s time was 4:01:25, and as a Ryan spokesman admitted, it was his one and only marathon. He was 20 when he ran it, and yet he still would have lost to a 40-ish Sarah Palin. Whoops. Diehard runners were ticked off, of course, and the Ryan marathon soon became a punch line.

Left unexamined, however, was another, equally outrageous claim: That Ryan has 6 percent body fat. This was endlessly repeated at the time of his selection—trumpeted in headlines (both here and abroad) and even in editorial-page cartoons. “Oh, to be a pair of calipers,” swooned Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. “Paul Ryan shirtless” became one of the most popular Internet searches—despite yielding only one softish vacation photo—which makes it all the more strange that nobody has taken a closer look.

Labels: faux masculinity, liars, Paul Ryan

The aide said that guys like me were ''in what we call the reality-based community,'' which he defined as people who ''believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.'' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ''That's not the way the world really works anymore,'' he continued. ''We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.''

The Janesville congressman said he had forgotten that his office sent letters — with his signature — to the Energy and Labor departments asking for money from the stimulus program on behalf of two companies in his home state.

“They should have been handled differently, and I take responsibility for that,” Ryan, R-Janesville, said in a written statement released only after he again denied requesting stimulus funds Thursday in an Ohio television interview.

Ryan’s denial in an interview with WCPO, Channel 9, Cincinnati, contradicted letters he wrote in 2009 to Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Labor Secretary Hilda Solis seeking stimulus grant money for two Wisconsin energy conservation companies. One of them, the nonprofit Wisconsin Energy Conservation Corp., later received $20.3 million from the Energy Department to help homes and businesses improve energy efficiency, according to federal records.

“After having these letters called to my attention I checked into them, and they were treated as constituent service requests in the same way matters involving Social Security or Veterans Affairs are handled,” Ryan said in a statement late Thursday. “This is why I didn’t recall the letters earlier.”

The congressman’s denial came as new audio surfaced of Ryan telling a Boston radio station two years ago that he “did not ask for stimulus money” in response to a caller’s question about the recovery program. “I’m not one who votes for something and then writes to the government to ask them to send us money,” Ryan said. The exchange was first reported Thursday by The Boston Globe.

But a year earlier in his request to Chu for funds for the Wisconsin Energy Conservation Corp. Ryan said the stimulus cash would help his state create thousands of new jobs, save energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Labels: assholes, liars, Paul Ryan, Republican lies

"This is the beginning of the end of the homosexual takeover of America!"

(Are you sure of that? Paul Ryan IS very dapper and does P90X....

"Lets hope that Connie Mack and Bill Nelson are yesterdays news!! Vote out all incumbents!!"

(You DO know, don't you, that Connie Mack is running AGAINST Bill Nelson, right?)

"Never heard of Paul Ryan but he looks like Anthony Wiener's twin. Perhaps a gambit by Romney to round up the women and perv vote. Who knows? A warning to young men, unless you thrive on nightmares and sexual confusion, avoid the image of Wasserman Schultz."

I feel the republicans made the best choice they could from a very weak group of candidates........What bothers me is Ryan's Career choice before entering politics.......... He took young boys on overnight camping trips for a living...... Let us hope none of the wee laddies snitch him out..... He does have the look of a young beady eyed Jerry Sandusky.......

(The above commenter posts as "ISPEAKFORGOD")

"Romney picks Paul Ryan for VP.

Ryan advocates the end of Medicare as we know it to be replaced with "Coupons" to use at the doctor.

He wants to Privatize Social Security and put that money in the stock market, just when you should be reducing risk.

Ryan wants to lower taxes on the wealthy, raise taxes on the middle class and poor.

His Ryan Plan has been condemned by his own Catholic Church as it relates to the poor.

Even Romney immediately distanced himself from The Ryan Plan.

Ryan is a member of the House of Representatives from Wisconsin. He has never even run in a state election and 54% of the people never heard of him.

Is this the level of expertise we want in the White House?

Romney just shot himself in the foot.

But, hey, it takes the attention away from Romney's lack of transparency and his refusal to release his tax returns.

At least for a few days.

Mitt, enjoy the weekend."

(The above must be one of my father's friends)

"It is believed that Sodomites and Muslims are the two riders of the Pale Horse of the Apocalypse: Death and Hades (Rev. 6:7-9).

Once Sodomites control the West and Muslims control the East (both near completion), these two minions of Satan will turn against each other and conflagrate the earth, bringing the Apocalypse.

Then, the righteous will be taken to their glory in the Kingdom, and the unrighteous will be “cast into the furnace of fire, where there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth” (Matt. 13:42)."

(And that, my friends, is your "***headdesk***" moment of the day.)

"-Shades of 2008. It is almost classic how similar the situation is! A WEAK republican candidate for president of the United States is in trouble in the polls. He's sinking, and he knows that he cannot do anything about it. He needs a spark- His campaign needs a catalyst. He makes the decision to go radical- He picks an outsider with little experience but a big mouth.....
And we all know how THAT one turned out!
The moment I heard that McCain had picked Sarah Palin as VP candidate in 2008, I knew Barack Obama had won the presidency. And last night when I read that they throught that Romney[Swiss bank accounts] was going to pick Paul Ryan...I instantly knew that it was GAME OVER!
The Democrats and Barack Obama are now going to add one more MAJOR demographic to the pile that they already basically own: Senior citizens. Paul Ryan wants to GUT medicare, and all they have to do is point this out to the public. Since over 90% of seniors vote in EVERY election....this choice for VP is about 50 more nails in the Romney campaign's coffin....."

"WHAT A BEAUTIFUL IS TO RECEIVE THE ADVERTISING BY MAIL EVERY SINGLE DAY AND SEE THE BACKGROUNDS OF ALL THOSE RUNNERS FOR ELECTED POSITIONS....FROM THE LOWERS TO THE HIGHER ARE SPECIAL IN SOME WAYS,THEY SEEM TO BE EGOCENTRICS, THEY ARE THE BEST PEOPLE,THE BEST PARENTS,THE BEST FRIENDS THE BEST HUSBANDS THE BEST IN EVERYTHING,AT THE SAME TIME THEY ATTEND TO EVERY WORSHIP AND THEY ARE DOING THEIR BEST TO MAKE THIS COUNTRY THE BEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD.BESIDE THEY NEVER EVER HAVE HAD ANY TROUBLE AT LAW,NO EVEN A TRAFFICS TICKET.ALL OF THEM ASSURED ME THEY ARE MY BEST FRIEND , PALS AND ALL OF THEM PROMISE MY TO DO ALL THE POSSIBLE THINGS FOR A BETTER LIVE FOR ME
NOW I AM THE MOST HAPPY AMERICAN CITIZEN COUNTING ON AL THOSE NEW FRIENDS THAT THE ONLY THING THEY ARE LOOKING FROM MY IS MY VOTE ,IT MAKES MY A VERY IMPORTANT PEOPLE.AT LEAST THEY SEND TO ME GREETINGS IN THE VOTING SEASON. I APPRECIATE IT. I THANK TO GOD BECAUSE ALL THE CANDIDATES ARE TELLING ME THE TRUE"

"Republican agenda revealed -
If the presidency is won then the plundering and pillaging of the middle class will continue. Rob from the poor to give to the rich.
If the presidency is lost then John "Boner" (Speaker of the House) will continue on his evil mission to play games and tie up congress so that nothing gets accomplished, and force the American people to vote Republican if they want things to get moving again. But it will just be back to the same old BS that got us in this mess in the first place."

"Rubio wanted to work with dems - wrong move if you are a "Tea Partier" whatever that means"

"to all of those believing that Romney paid no tax.... he I am sure is going to display all of his checks to the IRS he wrote for estimated Federal tax quarterly payments. Just to shut all the liars up. No high figure income earner goes without scrutiny by the IRS.... I am sure he took every possible deduction allowed by law. What is wrong with thst... ???Poor folks get deductions for earned income tax credit, dependents, etc. Many times the IRS actually pays low earners instead of low earners paying taxes."

Labels: American Idiots, Paul Ryan, What The Fuck Is It With Florida

Willard has recaptured a good portion of the elite political media, which has been crushing on Ryan's "courage" to take on the "tough choices" — none of which, it should be pointed out, likely will affect Ryan, who's already got himself an education out of the social safety net he now intends to shred, and certainly will never affect the haircut at the top of the ticket, or his great-grandchildren, for all that — and the coverage of the pick in the middle of the night showed that many of our finer chattering heads are already practicing tying the stem of the cherry with their tongues in preparation for covering the new Republican ticket.

He does not have the raw balls to explain to the country that, no, he does not believe in government — not the federal government, anyway, and not as it was originally conceived, as the fundamental expression of a political commonwealth. He's grandfathered his plan to chloroform Medicare so that, despite the deficit that he considers such an urgent problem, nobody alive today who might vote against him will be affected by it. For the same reason, he will not specify the cuts that he will make or the tax "loopholes" —coughMortgageInterestDeductioncough — that he will close. In any way that will come to matter to the people whose lives his policies will make harder and more miserable, Paul Ryan is still the high-school kid living off Social Security survivor benefits and reading Ayn Rand by flashlight under the sheets. Instead, he's a guy pretending to be something he's not, and doing so back in Janesville in a very swell Georgian mansion, which just happens to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Labels: Greedy Republican Bastards, Paul Ryan, pure evil, sociopathy, We Are So Screwed

Labels: 2012 election, Greedy Republican Bastards, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, social Darwinism

In what appears to be an effort to avoid the free-for-all town halls that have plagued recent contentious congressional recesses, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) and other Republican members of Congress have chosen to charge admission to their home-district appearances.

Ryan will speak September 6 to the Whitnall Park Rotary Club in Greenfield, Wisc. Admission to the event is $15 per person and includes lunch.

Ryan has no free public town hall appearances scheduled during the recess.

The last time he held a free town hall, in Milton, Wisc. in April, Ryan was booed while trying to explain his proposal for the federal budget, which included drastic cuts to entitlement and benefit programs. Other Republicans around the country were on the receiving end of similar heat from their constituents. Ryan even had police remove one heckler from a town hall event in Racine, Wisc.

Considering the backlash that Ryan, the chairman of the Budget Committee, faced for proposed financial legislation this spring, it's no surprise to some that he is avoiding open public events during the continued turmoil of the debt ceiling crisis.

Labels: Paul Ryan, Republican cowardice

Bill Bennett, from somewhere in the West, e-mailed me: “There are many talented candidates in the race already, but there is always room for a man of Paul Ryan’s intellectual depth, temperament, talent, and conviction.” Bennett and Ryan go way back. In a piece in the Weekly Standard from January, Fred Barnes recounted:

Ryan came to Washington after graduating from Miami of Ohio in 1992 to work for Republican senator Robert Kasten of Wisconsin. When Kasten lost later that year, he recommended Ryan to [the late Jack] Kemp. As Kemp’s assistant, Ryan met the intellectual leaders of supply-side economics, including Larry Kudlow, Art Laffer, Alan Reynolds, and Jude Wanniski. He sounds starstruck in talking about them today.

Bennett says Ryan hasn’t changed. “He was the exact same person then, only younger.” Bennett remembers Ryan asking him, “Dr. Bennett, I’m thinking about running for Congress. Does this pass the laugh test?” Bennett thought it did. Ryan, elected in 1998, still addresses Bennett as “Dr. Bennett.”

It sounds like Dr. Bennett is prescribing a presidential run. Whether Ryan will oblige remains to be seen. But Bennett is on to something: There is still an opening in the field for a conservative Republican with smarts and a broad electoral reach, especially one who has already successfully engaged the president. For those who think President Obama can be beaten on his policies not by personal quips, Ryan remains an attractive figure.

Labels: 2012 election, And people want this lunatic to be president?, Greedy Republican Bastards, Paul Ryan, True Blood