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Romney's phony Medicare attack - Salon.

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Mitt Romney's attack on "green jobs" has risks - CBS News

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Paul Ryan's Medicare plan with

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ROMNEY EMBRACING POLITICAL RISK GOES ON OFFENSE ON MEDICARE
ROMNEY EMBRACING POLITICAL RISK GOES ON OFFENSE ON MEDICARE

ROMNEY EMBRACING POLITICAL RISK GOES ON OFFENSE ON MEDICARE

ROMNEY EMBRACING POLITICAL RISK GOES ON OFFENSE ON MEDICARE

Mitt Romney, embracing political risk on an issue long considered a Democratic advantage, is attacking President Barack Obama on Medicare in a bid to turn a potential liability into an asset. The Republican challenger and his vice presidential running ...

ROMNEY EMBRACING POLITICAL RISK GOES ON OFFENSE ON MEDICARE
ROMNEY EMBRACING POLITICAL RISK GOES ON OFFENSE ON MEDICARE

ROMNEY EMBRACING POLITICAL RISK GOES ON OFFENSE ON MEDICARE

ROMNEY EMBRACING POLITICAL RISK GOES ON OFFENSE ON MEDICARE

Mitt Romney, embracing political risk on an issue long considered a Democratic advantage, is attacking President Barack Obama on Medicare in a bid to turn a potential liability into an asset. The Republican challenger and his vice presidential running ...

Romney Takes A Risk — The Right Gets Ryan (The Note)
Romney Takes A Risk — The Right Gets Ryan (The Note)

Romney Takes A Risk — The Right Gets Ryan (The Note)

Romney Takes A Risk — The Right Gets Ryan (The Note)

In its place is a candidate who is willing to embrace a running mate who has taken bold — and very controversial — positions on two of the most hot-button issues in politics: Social Security and Medicare. THE RISK IS OBVIOUS: This race is now fought ...

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"An Extreme Choice": Embracing Ayn Rand, GOP VP Pick Paul Ryan Backs ...

"An Extreme Choice": Embracing Ayn Rand, GOP VP Pick Paul Ryan Backs ...

"An Extreme Choice": Embracing Ayn Rand, GOP VP Pick Paul Ryan Backs ...

Democrats argue Ryan's planned Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security reform would essentially dismantle key components of the social safety net. ... MITT ROMNEY: There are some who are—who are fearful that if we stay on the track we're on, we're ...

Republican veep pick's plan for Medicare back in spotlight
Republican veep pick's plan for Medicare back in spotlight

Republican veep pick's plan for Medicare back in spotlight

Republican veep pick's plan for Medicare back in spotlight

Even Mitt Romney might not want to go there. ... Mindful of the risks, Romney put gentle but unmistakable distance between his agenda and Ryan's hot-potato budget proposals yesterday, a day after announcing his running mate's selection. ... The ...

Paul Ryan is the anti-Reagan
Paul Ryan is the anti-Reagan

Paul Ryan is the anti-Reagan

Paul Ryan is the anti-Reagan

Those are the evident risks for the Democrats in the Romney-Ryan sincerity offensive. The big risk for the Republicans, on the other hand, is that — absent the grandiose theater of authenticity politics — people may actually pay attention to their ideas.

MA Democrats and GOP Leaders React to Ryan Selection
MA Democrats and GOP Leaders React to Ryan Selection

MA Democrats and GOP Leaders React to Ryan Selection

MA Democrats and GOP Leaders React to Ryan Selection

Many of the biggest names in Massachusetts politics have voiced their opinion on Mitt Romney's selection of Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI) as the Vice Presidential candidate for Vice President. Big name Democrats and top GOP thinkers give their insights ...

Paul Ryan's Medicare plan back in spotlight
Paul Ryan's Medicare plan back in spotlight

Paul Ryan's Medicare plan back in spotlight

Paul Ryan's Medicare plan back in spotlight

WASHINGTON — Republican Paul Ryan's blueprint for Medicare could prove as polarizing in the campaign as President Barack Obama's health care overhaul has been. Even Mitt Romney may not want to go there. Romney's new running mate has built a ...

Mitt Romney attacks President Obama over welfare reform
Mitt Romney attacks President Obama over welfare reform

Mitt Romney attacks President Obama over welfare reform

Mitt Romney attacks President Obama over welfare reform

ELK GROVE VILLAGE, Ill. — Mitt Romney sought to inject the issue of welfare into the presidential campaign here Tuesday, accusing President Obama of dismantling federal welfare reform and creating a “culture of dependency.” ... Romney's comments come ...

Analysis: How Ryan's Budgets Would Affect Ours
Analysis: How Ryan's Budgets Would Affect Ours

Analysis: How Ryan's Budgets Would Affect Ours

Analysis: How Ryan's Budgets Would Affect Ours

SPENDING. Ryan is most famous for his Medicare plan, but if his budget became law at midnight tomorrow, the most dramatic changes over the next 10 years would be everything but Medicare. That's because Ryan's long-term plan to move Medicare from a ...

Paul Ryan's 'Young Guns' Activists Known for Confrontation
Paul Ryan's 'Young Guns' Activists Known for Confrontation

Paul Ryan's 'Young Guns' Activists Known for Confrontation

Paul Ryan's 'Young Guns' Activists Known for Confrontation

When Mitt Romney tapped Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis. , for the Republican vice presidential nomination, he chose more than a man. He got a movement. Ryan is a founder of the Young Guns, a group of GOP lawmakers known — like the characters in the ... The ...

Paul Ryan: Hawk on budget and tea party darling
Paul Ryan: Hawk on budget and tea party darling

Paul Ryan: Hawk on budget and tea party darling

Paul Ryan: Hawk on budget and tea party darling

Yet the announcement also fired up Democratic activists, who believe Ryan's plan to turn Medicare into a voucher program provides them an opportunity to win over seniors and boost their efforts to cast Romney, a wealthy former private equity executive ...

With veep pick, voters have clear choice in fall
With veep pick, voters have clear choice in fall

With veep pick, voters have clear choice in fall

With veep pick, voters have clear choice in fall

Ryan is synonymous with his revolutionary budget that slashes spending for safety-net programs for the poor, remakes Medicare and cuts personal and corporate taxes while pushing the deficit down to a manageable level. ... With Romney's embrace of Ryan ...

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The candidate: Life of intensity and pushing envelopes.
The candidate: Life of intensity and pushing envelopes.

The candidate: Life of intensity and pushing envelopes.

The candidate: Life of intensity and pushing envelopes.

But it also meant Romney was embracing the Ryan-sponsored budget proposal that Democrats fiercely target as painful to the poor and elderly. Still, the square-jawed ... That same intensity propelled him on the political front, too. He was first exposed ...

Romney's excellent trip
Romney's excellent trip

Romney's excellent trip

Romney's excellent trip

Krauthammer writes a politics column that runs on Fridays. ... Romney's speech warmly embraced Poland's post-communist experiment as a stirring example of a nation committed to limited government at home and a close alliance with America abroad, even ...

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PRESIDENT Romney Calls New VP Ryan....PRESIDENT Ryan! (Forward Looking Team)

PRESIDENT Romney Calls New VP Ryan....PRESIDENT Ryan! (Forward Looking Team)

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scottklenn: Campaign battle focuses on Ryan's Medicare redesign

Medicare is going broke. Every person in America watching this now knows that that?s true.? Asked whether Romney embraces Ryan?s Medicare redesign plan, Priebus said the GOP presidential contender ?appreciates and admires? ... David Axelrod, the Obama campaign political strategist, told NBC?s David Gregory on Meet the Press that Romney?s selection of Ryan as his running mate ?clarifies the choice? for voters to Obama?s benefit because Ryan is so ...

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1 day ago ... Mitt Romney's risky gamble in naming Paul Ryan as his running mate ... in a defensive debate about Medicare and other popular programs. ... self-confidence and willingness to embrace political risk to solve big problems. ... If the answer is yes, then obviously it's going to be a challenge to his candidacy." ...

Ryan defends GOP record on Medicare, says party has plan to save ...

Paul Ryan went on offense Tuesday in response to criticism over his Medicare plan, using an interview with Fox News coupled with a new TV ad to claim President Obama's health care plan treats the treasured entitlement like a “piggy bank,” while the “Romney-Ryan” plan ... Ryan, in his first one-on-one interview since being named Saturday as Mitt Romney's running mate, told Fox News on Tuesday he thinks Medicare can be a winning issue for their campaign.

How The Romney/Ryan Medicare Plan Would Affect Today's ...

7 hours ago ... The Romney campaign tries to sell its Medicare privatization ... campaign to go on "aggressive, sustained offense" over Medicare. ... MarketWatch | Political Watch .... but by Monday, Romney fully embraced his running mate's proposal. .... that robbed Medicare, $716 billion to pay for a new risky program of ...

Romney hits Obama for cutting $716 billion from Medicare to pay for ...

The Romney campaign has released a powerful new television ad contrasting the Romney/ Ryan plan, which strengthens Medicare and protects the commitments made to. ... Formerly, as soon as the Wasserman-Schultz's of the left began to obfuscate/lie/rebut our opening anti-Obama salvo, the GOP immediately shifted from offense to humble defense and rationalization, sacrificing our strategic position in that .... but it is done in a way that won't put seniors at risk.

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Selfishness is the way to go. Lest you think I am exaggerating, one of Ayn Rand's important works, a collection of philosophical essays, is entitled "The Virtue of Selfishness," and it is an extended attack upon the idea of altruism. ... Ayn Rand spent a lot of time attacking government programs that are based on a public-minded spirit -- programs like Social Security and Medicare, which aim to ensure that everyone can lead a stable and dignified life in their later years, ...

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MARCO RUBIO WILL INTRODUCE ROMNEY on Thursday night, the Tampa Bay ... his campaign tries to use the tragedy of a woman's death for political gain? .... Romney has taken a risk with Ryan that has only a modest chance of going right .... MIAMI HERALD: “Romney goes on offense over $700 billion in Medicare cuts.

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Explain it to me: Ryan's Medicare plan. Rep. Paul Ryan ... POLITICAL NEWS AND VIEWS. Paul Ryan gives ... Comparing Romney, Obama Medicare plans. 179 ...

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John Nichols, political writer for The Nation and the author of Uprising: How Wisconsin Renewed the Politics of Protest, from Madison to Wall Street. Monday, August 13, 2012 ... MITT ROMNEY: There are some who are—who are fearful that if we stay on the track we're on, we're going to end up like Greece, and we're going to have, like Europe has, the chronic high unemployment and the low wage growth and fiscal calamity right at the door. That's not the path we'll ...

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Romney answered critics who say Ryan's Medicare plan will hurt the ticket's chances, especially in Florida. ... "But looking for young people down the road and saying, 'We're going to give you a .... And that's widely seen as a politically risky stance in Florida, a must-win state for ..... If Americans who are embracing Rep.

Obama embraces health care law after court ruling - CBS News

Aug 6, 2012 ... Politics Why the fuss over Ryan's Medicare plan? ... Romney is avoiding answering hard questions about how he would tackle health ... If you don't have health insurance we're going to help you get it." ... For Obama, there's a political risk in fully embracing his health care overhaul ... Select type of offense: ...

Romney Takes A Risk — The Right Gets Ryan (The Note) - ABC News

3 days ago ... presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney has made his running mate official. ... In its place is a candidate who is willing to embrace a running mate who has taken bold ... on two of the most hot-button issues in politics: Social Security and Medicare. ... It's a worthy goal, but it's going to be a tough sell.

DCCC Launches Robocall Onslaught Tying GOP — To Ryan Budget!

It's crystal clear that the Ryan budget will be a defining issue in congressional races across the country and House Republicans can't escape the political devastation it will cause them.” ... “As for the substance of the Ryan (and now Romney) budget plan, look for the Republican candidates to argue to the relatively few, almost certainly independent, voters that at least one of them (Ryan) had the guts to take the political risk of offering a blueprint for keeping the United ...

Paul Ryan's Medicare plan back in spotlight | Lubbock Online ...

Mindful of the risks, Romney put gentle but unmistakable distance between his agenda and Ryan's hot-potato budget proposals on Sunday, a day after announcing his running mate's selection. The presidential ... sure we can save Medicare.” But Romney never said whether he embraced that plan himself. ... The political sensitivities are clear. Polls find that ... Under his plan, people now 64 and younger would go into a very different sort of Medicare. Upon becoming ...

Fight over Medicare benefits takes center stage as Mitt Romney ...

2 days ago ... Monday, August 13, 2012; NYDailyNews.com / Politics ... 2 for battling to “save Medicare,” and yet never flat-out embraced Ryan's austere ... Romney took the offensive — and blamed Obama for Medicare's fiscal woes: ... of in history who robbed Medicare of $716 billion to pay for a new risky program of his ...

Ryan seen as Romney's bridge across GOP spectrum - Spokesman ...

But it also meant Romney was embracing the Ryan-sponsored budget proposal that Democrats fiercely target as painful to the poor and elderly. Still, the ... That same intensity propelled him on the political front, too. ... They note that he backed a costly prescription drug benefit during Republican George W. Bush's presidency that added strain to the Medicare budget, which Ryan touted at the time as “one of the most critical pieces of legislation” enacted since he joined ...

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