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Labor Day 2011 with Paul Ryan

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If you see Paul Ryan marching in a parade, don’t bother him with your random, petty bullshit, like unemployment — not when he’s having a good time:

“Paul Ryan has never offered anything of value or consequence to the laid-off workers of Janesville … until Labor Day, 2011.

“As he marched with other politicians in the Janesville Labor Day parade, the congressman was confronted by Wisconsin workers who were struggling with high unemployment and bleak prospects. A man was videotaped asking what his representative planned to do to aid Ryan’s unemployed constituents. 

““So what should I have to work for to get a job?” the man asked. “Should I have to work the same wages as in China? Should I have to work for $1 an hour?”

“Ryan tried to brush his questioner off. But when the man persisted, saying, “C’mon, we’re all here to have a good time.”

“When he was reminded that it was Labor Day, which would seem to be an appropriate time to discuss unemployment and the condition of workers, Ryan finally offered something: “Would you like some candy?” Ryan asked. “Would you like a Packer-Badger schedule?”“

— Paul Ryan’s Labor Day Promise to American Workers: Candy and a Sports Schedule | The Nation (via: diegueno)

Reminds me of this year’s Iowa State Fair, when Ryan didn’t want to be bothered with questions about Iowa farmers and crop failure because of the drought, so he responded with the brush off: “Right now I just want to enjoy the fair.” 

It’s a mystery when average, working and middle class teapublicans tell themselves that their lives will be so much better if Romney-Ryan win the election. They really need to think that through. Maybe start with: HOW?

How Fox “News” built Mitt Romney’s running mate

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It’s no secret formula — the network is just a blatant political machine for the Republican Party and the nation’s billionaires:

Fox News certainly helped make Ryan a “star” within the conservative movement. Prior to his selection, Ryan was touted by Fox News personalities as a “genius” and a man of “courage.” Fox News Sunday made him a birthday cake. The network also championed Ryan’s budget despite its “smoke and mirrors” accounting.

Since his selection, Ryan has received similarly fawning praise. Fox News personalities have praised his intellect (“he knows the numbers inside and out”), his appearance (“could be the most ripped” VP in history, “national sex symbol”), and his demeanor (“personally quite appealing,” “kind of everybody’s dream older brother”). Fox News’ Juan Williams summed up the network’s relationship with Romney-Ryan when he noted that they appear on Fox more than “any other network” because “they feel comfortable here.”

All that PR for a guy who’s passed only TWO BILLS in a 13-year career as a public servant. But what’s important is his budget and the tax cuts provided for the super rich. For the rubes who aren’t billionaires and plan to vote Romney-Ryan, that’s who the Fox News political machine targets.

The Obama Camp begins public education campaign on Romney’s potential VP picks

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The Washington Post reports that “the president’s campaign started swinging at the potential Republican running mates this week while urging home-state Democrats to chime in about the shortcomings that — as emails to donors and supporters put it — ‘Americans need to know.’”

  • Tim Pawlenty? The former Minnesota governor is a fee-raiser whose record “is painful for the middle-class families who lived under his leadership.”
  • Rob Portman? The Ohio senator is “one of the architects of the top-down Bush budget” that the Obama team blames for “crashing our economy.”
  • Marco Rubio? The rookie Florida senator has “led the way on almost every extreme position Mitt Romney has embraced,” according to the missive that seeks examples of “the good, the bad and ugly” of Rubio.
  • Chris Christie? There’s “no lack of material to work with” about the pugnacious New Jersey governor.
  • Bobby Jindal? The Louisiana governor and former congressman tried to harm Social Security and Medicare and “had the same issues with secrecy and lack of transparency as Mitt Romney.”

The Post notes: ”Those views are far from how Republicans regard the group.” No kidding! Ha ha.

And there are still so many other logical choices for Mitt’s running mate: Paul Ryan, Jeb Bush, a statue of Ronald Reagan, BiBi Netanyahu, Sarah Palin, Mitt’s wife (she’s now an empty nester), Michele Bachmann, Donald Trump, General Jack D. Ripper, Joe Arpaio, Republican Jesus, Joe Walsh, Batboy, Liz Cheney, Boo Boo Child, Glenn Beck, Alex Jones, Rush Limbaugh, the Koch brothers, Ted Nugent, Jack Abramoff, Michelle Malkin, Rick Santorum, Rick Perry, a corporation (they’re people too!), Charles Montgomery Burns, Condoleezza Rice, or Allen West.

It’s believed that Romney will announce his choice of running mate during a bus tour which begins Saturday, taking him through Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, and ending in Ohio. Four years ago at a rally in Ohio, John McCain inflicted Sarah Palin on us as his running mate. Ah, memories!

Great news: Romney might choose Crazy Eyes as a running mate

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Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Mars) — or as Charles P. Pierce calls her, the Girl with the Faraway Eyes (which is pretty funny) — refused to say whether or not she’s being considered as a running mate for Mitt Romney, according to The Raw Story:

“One thing I know about Mitt Romney, he’s made excellent decisions in the past when it comes to running organizations and I have no doubt, whoever it is, that he chooses, to bring in as his V.P., it will be a highly competent person who could step in at a moments notice and assume the responsibilities of the White House,” she told CNN’s Piers Morgan. “Are you being vetted at the moment?” Morgan asked. “Well, that’s something for the campaign to answer on,” she responded. “That’s not for me to make that decision, and that announcement.”

Mitt and Michele have a lot in common: she has dual citizenship in Switzerland and he has a lot of money in their banks. I welcome more open discussion on the Romney campaign trail about FEMA camps, communists in the United States Congress, the light-bulb conspiracy, and how the Fast & Furious operation was in fact a “political program” implemented by Eric Holder to take away our Second Amendment rights. Plus, it would be great fun to see Marcus Bachmann and Marie Antoinette interact with cookie recipe competitions, etc.

Make this happen, Mitt Romney.