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Canadian Free Press
| 9 months ago
Politico is even now trying to attack Romney and Ryan over how they dress!...On its main page on the afternoon of August 15, the news site seemed to carry a single message: Paul Ryan is a bad, bad man and Romney made a big mistake picking him as his...
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The Tribune
| 9 months ago
GOP vice presidential pick Ryan releases 2010, 2011 tax returns GOP vice presidential pick Ryan releases 2010, 2011 tax returns Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan and his wife paid taxes at effective rates of 20 percent last year and 15.
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The Steamboat Pilot
| 9 months ago
I'm deeply concerned after reading the article in the Steamboat Today Romney seeking distance: Presidential candidate stresses Ryan's agenda different from own. If his policy is not Ryan's or President Obama's, then what is his budget policy?...In...
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Los Angeles Times
| 9 months ago
As campaign debate over Medicare intensifies, former Gov. Mitt Romney and President Obama have been accusing one another of threatening the future of the government health insurance program for the elderly and disabled. Some background to the...
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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
| 9 months ago
CNN billed it as a "major" political development. The cable news network, which is often consumed by American politics, moved the state of Wisconsin into the all-important "toss up" category , making the home state of the newly named Republican vice-...
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Los Angeles Times
| 9 months ago
Ever since Paul Ryan was added to the Republican ticket, the campaign rhetoric has shifted to Medicare. Before the presidential campaign hurtles off to the next skirmish, take a moment to notice what happened this week: Mitt Romney vowed to increase...
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The Columbus Dispatch
| 9 months ago
Rep. Paul Ryan to the Romney ticket immediately anointed Medicare as a key issue in the presidential election. Ryan provided a new twist to that debate yesterday in Ohio and pushed another issue to the forefront for at least one afternoon: trade...
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Courier & Press
| 9 months ago
The Republican ticket is an odd marriage of convenience between the fiscally conservative Paul Ryan, a darling of the tea party right, and Mitt Romney, a serial flip-flopper determined to prove his conservative credentials with his own party's right...
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The Tribune
| 9 months ago
Ryan budget would hurt poor and elderly, critics say Ryan budget would hurt poor and elderly, critics say Republican vice presidential hopeful Paul Ryan will leave sizable footprints on the 2012 presidential race. The other Paul Ryan plan: $800B in...
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Boston Herald
| 9 months ago
Updated 42 minutes ago Text size I t's all about health care now. The presidential race just got a whole lot more interesting with GOP candidate Mitt Romney 's selection of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate. Ryan is best known nationally...
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Washington Post
| 9 months ago
For younger Americans who make up the next generation of seniors, Romney said, Obama would bankrupt Medicare, while Romney's plan would leave the federal retiree health-care program solvent. The differences in our Medicare perspective could not be...
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Myrtle Beach Online
| 9 months ago
Road rage on this year's campaign trail A little road rage has entered the campaign trail. Debate joined on Medicare; Romney, Obama go at it Debate joined on Medicare; Romney, Obama go at it Mitt Romney accused President Barack Obama in person and in...
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College Candy
| 9 months ago
This past Saturday, Mitt Romney named Paul Ryan his running mate. As a college girl who prefers to follow political news instead of celebrity gossip, I will admit that I was a little more than excited to finally hear the announcement. For me, this...
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Star Tribune
| 9 months ago
Republican vice presidential contender Paul Ryan says he never would have included a $700 billion Medicare cut in his budget if President Barack Obama hadn't done it first. "He put those cuts there," Ryan said Thursday, responding to a reporter's...
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Fox News
| 9 months ago
FoxNews.com Florida voters are more afraid of President Obama's health care overhaul than Paul Ryan's budget plan when it comes to Medicare's future, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll released Thursday. The poll of 500 likely Florida voters...
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Arizona Republic
| 9 months ago
Republican vice presidential contender Paul Ryan says he never would have included a $700 billion Medicare cut in his budget if President Barack Obama hadn't done it first. Mitt Romney and his running mate Ryan have been criticizing Obama in recent...
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Courier & Press
| 9 months ago
The Democrats want to scare the elderly to death about Paul Ryan's Medicare proposals even though they won't affect anyone over 54, and here's what they're not telling anyone. Their own legislative mishaps include billions in cuts that start eating...
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International Herald Tribune
| 9 months ago
Related in Opinion Today, let's consider what the selection of Ryan as Mitt Romney's running mate will mean to the American health care system. To start, there's good news for senior citizens: You can stop worrying! Neither Ryan nor Romney wants to...
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USA Today
| 9 months ago
Introduced as a hometown hero, Miami University graduate Paul Ryan said he welcomed the coming debate over who has the best plan to overhaul Medicare. He said Republicans would win that debate. "We want this debate...And we will win this debate," the...
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Newsbusters
| 9 months ago
Mitt Romney has outdone himself in choosing Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate. The conservative base is ecstatic, and that will translate into voter intensity and high turnout. Our country faces an unprecedented debt crisis, primarily driven by our...
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The Washington Times
| 9 months ago
She's the helpless old lady in a wheelchair whom Rep. Paul Ryan , or somebody who was supposed to look like him, pushed over the cliff. That's the way an Obama campaign commercial attempted to demonstrate the heartlessness of the mean ol' Republicans.
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SF Gate
| 9 months ago
Ohio (AP) Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan is inviting debate over his proposal to overhaul Medicare. The Wisconsin congressman told an Ohio audience Wednesday night that the Republican presidential ticket led by Mitt Romney will win...
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Los Angeles Times
| 9 months ago
President Obama defended his Medicare reforms Wednesday as improvements that didn't affect benefits for seniors by a dime. Countering a new critique from Republican Mitt Romney , Obama told a crowd here that his reforms have strengthened Medicare by...
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Herald News
| 9 months ago
IS the idea of having Paul Ryan on the Republican ticket, and then there is the reality. If conservative ideologues are over the moon at having their favorite conviction politician as Mitt Romney's vice presidential running mate, many Republican...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 9 months ago
Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan appear to be very in tune on a personal level, but they are still working out the kinks of their different policy pronouncements particularly on Medicare. Washington As campaign companions, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan couldn't...
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Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
| 9 months ago
He is honest; he is straightforward; he is sincere; and the budget he came forward with is just like Paul Ryan...These words are not from a Tea Party accountant, but from Erskine Bowles, the Democratic co-chair of Obama's National Commission on...
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The Hill
| 9 months ago
Boehner (R-Ohio) told his conference that Republicans were going to be attacked on Medicare regardless of Ryan's selection, according to a source familiar with the routine weekly call with leadership and rank-and-file. The pundits are buzzing that...
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USA Today
| 9 months ago
The president shot back at criticism from Republican opponent Mitt Romney and his running mate Paul Ryan, who note that Obama's 2010 health care overhaul cut more than $700 billion from the insurance program for the elderly. The changes will not hurt...
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Virginian-Pilot Online
| 9 months ago
Speaker John Boehner has told rank-and-file House Republicans they can use the political tussle over Medicare to their advantage. In a conference call with members Tuesday night, Boehner told lawmakers running for re-election that their best defense...
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Los Angeles Times
| 9 months ago
President Obama plans to argue Wednesday that his administration has strengthened Medicare without cutting benefits, as the campaign for the White House shifts to a fight over which candidate is better for seniors. Obama has saved seniors hundreds of...
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Chicago Tribune
| 9 months ago
First of all, Congressman Ryan has joined my campaign, and his campaign is my campaign now, and we're on exactly the same page, Romney said in response to anchor Anthony Mason's question. And my campaign has made it very clear: The president's cuts...
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International Business Times
| 9 months ago
The announcement of Paul Ryan as Mitt Romney's official running mate in the 2012 presidential elections has officially shaken up the race leading to the November elections. Share This Story Suddenly, the conversation has shifted from tax returns and...
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Fox News
| 9 months ago
FoxNews.com "...the budget that [Rep. Paul Ryan] came forward with is just like Paul Ryan. It is a sensible, straightforward, honest, serious budget and it cut the budget deficit just like we did, by $4 trillion. ... The president came out with his...
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WSJ.com: Health Blog
| 9 months ago
Here's what's making health news this morning: Medicare Highlights Divide on GOP Ticket (WSJ): An emerging point of contention is the $716 billion reduction over 10 years in Medicare's growthpart of President Obama's health-care law. What makes the...
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Politico
| 9 months ago
Rep. Paul Ryan , in other words, certainly knew how to play the role of a sleeves-rolled-up, problem-solving deficit hawk as a member of the high-profile Simpson-Bowles budget commission. In the end, however, that was not the role Ryan chose to play...
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Embassy
| 9 months ago
T he presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, picked his running mate on Aug. 11, United States House Budget Committee chair Paul Ryan. Mr. Ryan's budget plan for America is well-known, but here's a refresher on some of his greatest...
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NY Daily News
| 9 months ago
With the announcement of Paul Ryan as Mitt Romney's running mate, the inevitable focus is on Ryan's policies. Specifically, the attacks will be directed at his budget plan, called The Path to Prosperity, and his laserlike focus on entitlement...
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The New York Times
| 9 months ago
As the partisan brawl over Medicare continued on Tuesday and threatened to become the focus of the race, the Obama campaign said that Mr. Ryan's budget plan broadly endorsed by Mr. Romney would end Medicare as we know it and shift costs to...
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Canadian Free Press
| 9 months ago
Those who think that Paul Ryan is nothing but a dangerous right-wing ideologue with a racist eye need to watch the YouTube video below, which shows Erskine Bowles, prominent Democrat, heaping praise on young Paul Ryan and his budget. Bowles is a...
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Pakistan Chronicle
| 9 months ago
A man who was considered for the number-two slot on the Republican ticket will be trying to give Mitt Romney a boost today in the all-important state of Ohio. Sen. Rob Portman will be appearing with Romney as the GOP candidate makes three appearances...
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The Washington Times
| 9 months ago
No domestic issue, other than jobs and the economy, fuels more worry from America's voters than the $5-trillion-plus debt President Obama has run up over the past four years. No president has spent as much as Mr. Obama has or has had higher budget...
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The Tribune
| 9 months ago
In selecting Paul Ryan as his running mate, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has taken the unusual step of embracing a man whose deficit-reduction plan is far more detailed than his own. Romney taps Ryan as running mate Romney taps Ryan...
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CNN
| 9 months ago
Carroll is an associate professor of pediatrics at the Indiana University School of Medicine and the director of the university's Center for Health Policy and Professionalism Research. He blogs about health policy at The Incidental Economist and...
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Fox News
| 9 months ago
FoxNews.com Rep. Paul Ryan, in an interview with Fox News' Brit Hume, shot down critics who say Medicare is a losing issue for Republicans. "We're the ones who are offering a plan to save Medicare, to protect Medicare, to strengthen Medicare," Ryan...
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Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
| 9 months ago
Jewish Republicans, including the House majority leader, say they are thrilled with Wisconsin's Ryan emerging as the ticket's fresh face, hailing the lawmaker as a thoughtful and creative budget guru bent on taming out-of-control federal spending.
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Newsbusters
| 9 months ago
In an interview with former House speaker Newt Gingrich on Tuesday's NBC Today , co-host Matt Lauer worried about vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan's commitment to conservative principles: "I've heard Paul Ryan described as a true conservative....
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CNN
| 9 months ago
All are battleground states crucial to both sides' chances for victory in November, and all host campaign events Tuesday by the presidential and vice-presidential contenders. President Barack Obama woke up in Iowa for the second day of his bus tour...
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The Hill
| 9 months ago
Boehner referenced the budget plan that Ryan, as House Budget Committee chairman, developed for the House Republicans. Obama and the Democrats this weekend quickly launched new attacks on Romney, hoping to tie the presumptive GOP nominee to Ryan's...
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Fox News
| 9 months ago
FoxNews.com Before Paul Ryan was pinned as an "extreme" and "radical" ideologue, Democrats actually kind of liked the guy. Several clips of prominent Democrats -- including President Obama -- praising Ryan have surged through the Internet in the...
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Turks and Caicos Free Press
| 9 months ago
A video of former Clinton White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles began circulating in conservative news outlets today. In the clip, the Democratic co-chair of President Obama's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform gives high...
