{"id":7759,"date":"2012-08-11T15:45:07","date_gmt":"2012-08-11T22:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7759"},"modified":"2012-08-11T15:45:07","modified_gmt":"2012-08-11T22:45:07","slug":"pastromney-on-ryan-mitt-romney-caves-in-to-the-tea-publican-wing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7759","title":{"rendered":"PASTROMNEY ON RYAN: Mitt Romney Caves In To The Tea-Publican Wing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Capping a month of monumental failure, international gaffes, and plunging polls<\/a>, Mitt Romney did precisely what the far-right fringe of the Republican Party demanded of him. He chose, Paul Ryan, a VP running mate straight from the bowels of the Tea Party, whose well-documented agenda of gifting financial benefits to the wealthy and sending the bill to the poor and middle class is the perfect complement to Romney Hood. Congratulations Governor.<\/p>\n

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Obama for America Campaign Manager Jim Messina released the following statement<\/strong> in response to Mitt Romney picking Congressman Paul Ryan to be his presumptive nominee for vice president:<\/p>\n

\u201cIn naming Congressman Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney has chosen a leader of the House Republicans who shares his commitment to the flawed theory that new budget-busting tax cuts for the wealthy, while placing greater burdens on the middle class and seniors, will somehow deliver a stronger economy. The architect of the radical Republican House budget, Ryan, like Romney, proposed an additional $250,000 tax cut for millionaires, and deep cuts in education from Head Start to college aid. His plan also would end Medicare as we know it by turning it into a voucher system, shifting thousands of dollars in health care costs to seniors. As a member of Congress, Ryan rubber-stamped the reckless Bush economic policies that exploded our deficit and crashed our economy. Now the Romney-Ryan ticket would take us back by repeating the same, catastrophic mistakes.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

ThinkProgress compiled 12 Things You Should Know About Vice Presidential Candidate Paul Ryan<\/a> (click link for details).<\/p>\n

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  1. Ryan embraces the extreme philosophy of Ayn Rand.<\/li>\n
  2. Ryan wants to raises taxes on the middle class, cuts them for millionaires.<\/li>\n
  3. Ryan wants to end Medicare, replace it with a voucher system.<\/li>\n
  4. Ryan thinks Social Security is a \u201cponzi scheme.\u201d<\/li>\n
  5. Ryan\u2019s budget would result in 4.1 million lost jobs in 2 years.<\/li>\n
  6. Ryan wants to eliminate Pell Grants for more more than 1 million students.<\/li>\n
  7. Ryan supports $40 billion in subsides for big oil.<\/li>\n
  8. Ryan has ownership stakes in companies that benefit from oil subsidies .<\/li>\n
  9. Ryan claimed Romneycare has led to \u201crationing and benefit cuts.\u201d<\/li>\n
  10. Ryan believes that Romneycare is \u201cnot that dissimilar to Obamacare.\u201d<\/li>\n
  11. Ryan accused generals of lying about their support for Obama\u2019s military budget.<\/li>\n
  12. Ryan co-sponsored a \u201cpersonhood\u201d amendment, an extreme anti-abortion measure.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    And as a symbolic harbinger of things to come, in the big stage-managed photo-op of Romney announcing his bachlorette, Romney introduced Ryan as “the next president of the United States.”<\/em><\/p>\n