NBC reports: "Three different sources close to the Romney campaign indicate to NBC News that Mitt Romney will announce House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan as his vice-presidential running mate at tomorrow's campaign event in Norfolk, Virginia."
Mitt Romney is expected to name Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate. (photo: Getty Images)
Romney Expected to Name Paul Ryan
As Running Mate
11 August 12
hree different sources close to the Romney campaign indicate to NBC News that Mitt Romney will announce House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan as his vice-presidential running mate at tomorrow's campaign event in Norfolk, Virginia.
The announcement will be in front of the USS Wisconsin - which just happens to be Ryan's home state.
With recent national polls showing Romney trailing President Barack Obama, Ryan is a bold pick. He would excite economic conservatives, and is considered one of his party's rising stars.
But his budget plan - which would substantially transform Medicare and Medicaid - is a lightning rod. In fact, Democrats argue that Ryan's selection marks an opportunity to highlight Ryan's desired changes to Medicare, which include giving future seniors a voucher or premium support to help pay for their health insurance. Under Ryan's plan, future seniors would have the choice of using the voucher/premium support to purchase private insurance or through Medicare's traditional fee-for-service model.
"We've spent 18 months trying to make House races about their plan for Medicare and Mitt Romney just did it for us overnight," said one Democratic operative.
Ryan had been the focus of intense VP speculation for the last few days. Washington economic conservatives - including the Wall Street Journal editorial page and the Weekly Standard - have pushed for his selection.
In addition, Romney told NBC's Chuck Todd on Thursday he was looking for someone with "a vision for the country," who "adds something to the political discourse about the direction of the country" - a sign that he might make a bold pick in Ryan.
At 11:11 pm ET, the Romney campaign announced that it would be making its VP selection on Saturday. And as First Read reported earlier this week, the VP finalists were Ryan, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, and Ohio Sen. Rob Portman.
NBCNews.com's Mike O'Brien contributed to this report.
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Low end welfare (who still pay far higher % of payroll taxes (once 40% of revenues) plus higher portion of their incomes for all needs (food, shelter, transportation, health care, etc) seem to get about $9,000 for the 103 million people saved by that low end welfare. Most are honest and hard working people that become collateral damage when they “destroy the village to save the village.” The low end is limited by TANF to 5 years of welfare in a lifetime. No time limits for 1.75 million households making $250,000+ a year, high end welfare beneficiaries of $16.6 trillion in bailouts 1,054 times more than the low end. Look at sites like http://www.mybudget360.com/how-much-average-household-income-us-recession-income-distribution/ (which only shows distribution of income, not wealth) to see how uneven the benefits are within even the top 1.5%. Their income is already far higher, taxes far lower proportionally, and wealth accumulating even more unevenly. When will they have enough?
Even with all that special advantage they get, I don’t care how rich they get, I care about how hollow a country they are making, and limiting our potential to be a truly productive country that comes from a better distribution to producers instead of gamblers
what's that bible passage (Matthew 5:30)? "if your right hand offendeth you, cut it off"?
Oops, apologies for duplicating your "doubling down", I didn't get to your comment before I had the same thought.
Another thought that came to mind (independently) is that the Romney/Ryan team initials are "RR" forcing "Richie Rich" into my brain. I like the Richie Rich character better, though.
Be that as it may, if Ryan is the VP pick, will he give up his House seat? Or will he hedge, and hold onto it just in case Romney/Ryan doesn't quite succeed? Whatever Ryan does will be an indicator of how much faith he has in the ticket.
In this case it was pretty much a done deal when they broke it...jthey only use expected to save face if the Romney team was throwing a curve ball..
http://unapologetic-conjecture.blogspot.com/2012/08/mitt-romney-even-less-worthy-of.html
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Choosing Ryan for VP seems suicidal to me, evidently they hope their voter purges and gerrymandering will put them over the top. I hope they're wrong.
They have at least motivated me to contribute whatever little I can to anyone, anywhere, that has a chance of countering them.
A look at the site reminded me that potential employers now want to see your finances, credit scores, and even want your facebook passwords. Should we ask less of Romney and Ryan, if we are considering hiring them?
If you STILL think a 3rd party vote isn't a waste, maybe you need to take a closer look at the STARK differences between your more realistic options. If you didn't think there was a strong enough difference between Mittens and Obama, tell me...
What's the difference between Mittenes and RYAN?
At this point, the only POSSIBLE excuse for telling us not to vote for Obama is that you seriously want to destroy the country FASTER.
I'm against both Obama and Romney, but a Ryan VP may be the last straw needed to push me to hold my nose and vote for the murder in chief Obama.
Your last point is the best -- I do want to destroy the USA faster. It is the great poison in the world, source of terrorism, pollution, GMO foods, and capitalism. The sooner it destroys itself, the better for the whole world. Now I think I will vote for Romeny.
Saying, in writing, that you "...want to destroy the USA faster" can get you into trouble with Homeland Security, the FBI, or both. Do you want to reconsider your recorded comment? As you know, you can edit your comment from the computer that created it, and only the NSA with have a record of it in their automatic archives.
I can see the Kock Brothers' commercials now:
"YOU'RE GETTING SLEEPY... vote repuglican."
The Ryan plan is nothing more than a strategy for winnowing the baby boomer generation by cutting off health care for aging boomers. It's soft genocide directed at the most vulnerable. What do you expect from predatory capitalists born with silver spoons? America needs a serious realignment and radical redistribution of wealth. Reagan's legacy is the bane of civil society.
And if they, as you rightly gather, don't consider President Obama to be 'their' president, 'their' Commander in Chief, then the oath of office that they swore to, is meaningless. Their actions can, and should be considered treasonous.
But, what do you expect from them? They are what they are; the tiger cannot do away with its stripes.
"OUR" President MEANT "OUR" President - as in ALL OF "OUR" President - INCLUDING those who are guilty of treason.
1. Obama (the FAR lesser evil)
2. Mittens / Ryan (the FAR greater evil)
3. Sitting by and doing nothing to prevent the greater evil
Please explain to me how choice #3, 'doing nothing' prevents the 'greater evil?'
Your logic escapes me.
Get it now?
If the logic of one sentence seems completely absurd, try thinking about it in the context of my entire history of comments.
I never said your sentence was absurd, partially absurd, and certainly not 'completely absurd.' I just said that the grammar and syntax was not logical. If you had put a comma after the word 'nothing' it would have made it clearer. Without the comma, it sounded like you you were saying that the act of 'doing nothing' was preventing the greater evil.
You might be interested in the quote from Edmund Burke (1729-1797) who said, "All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good people to do nothing."
He also said, "Those who do not learn from history are destined to repeat it."
I meant no disrespect to you or your comment. I was only trying to point out how important it is to make clear, not only what we say, but how we say it. You of all people should understand how lies, half truths and the twisting of words, is making a mockery of meaningful political discourse in this most important election cycle.
Do you GET IT now?
Hmmm. My Lucky Charms cereal box decoder ring tells me he and his mates might hold shares in the proposed insurance companies that have a "passing mention" on the voucher.
I can see why the Conservatives would hate "Obamacare", it puts a massive wrench in their master plan.
So government spending is only good if we shop with Republix? Figures. I once worked for a car dealership where the owner once said "I will fire any employee who buys a Nissan vehicle from any dealership other than mine." You could imagine how it must have been to work there.
u worked for a car dealership??
no, really tho- i was an INTERN for a labor union once-- not even UAW and you should have SEEN the looks i got for driving a BORROWED car that was made in japan!
Every floor in a business should look like the boardroom but it doesn't. Why wouldn't an owner take that much pride in something regarded as his most valuable asset? Because other people will benefit from the beauty - that's why - even though it takes many hands to make a successful business possible. These same people who run businesses that concentrate only on the top floor and the lobby will run the nation the EXACT same way.
What incentive exists for them to do otherwise?
Personally I don't think he's going to pick Ryan.
I think they're just saying that, so no matter who Romney picks, he won't look so bad compared to Ryan.
Nobody could be stupid enough to pick Ryan---Not even Romney!!!
DON'T VOTE REPUBLICAN AT ANY LEVEL, many states also need cleaning up.
VOTE OBAMA/BIDEN 2012, save us all.
News flash Bobby, Ryan IS from Wisconsin. If a writer can't get the simple things right...
And for anyone who thinks businessmen would make a good president, we've had two of them so far, Hoover and Bush II.
And, hooverbush, it's official! And you're right, it IS stupid. I think Romney thinks, if they thought Palin was better than me, just look aT WHO i PICKED.
it's in our drinking water, it falls from the sky like rain!
Get you 'Death Potions' correct.
Kool-Aid would be a drink that would do double duty. It would 'aid' you, while at the same time be real 'kool.'
What you want the Tea Party to serve in big tall glasses is Kool-Ade, a much more effective and decisive drink.
The essence of your presumption is 100% correct.
Throwing the boomers under the train to stand in Depression-era soup lines for medical care with their insubstantial "vouchers" and giving their hard-earned Social Security money (in some cases, 40 years worth) to Wall St. to play with in the form of 401Ks is a sure recipe for disaster for all boomers on the edge of retirement in the next ten years.
My mother (once an Editor of the local Mensa chapter newsletter) worked for the IRS for 20 years. The Federal Government has their own retirement plan, and when you leave, you can take the money with you.
My mother studied her market for a year, opened a business with her retirement money, worked 16 hour days, 7 days a week for a year, advertised in every appropriate venue, and STILL lost her business within two years.
The moral of this story is that ALL retirees need a safety net, as not everyone "gets rich" when working their butts off (9 out of 10 new restaurants FAIL, for example). So to those who think they could do a better job with their Social Security money, consider this a "cautionary tale".
And those who think that Paul Ryan's budget plan will do ANYTHING other than throw retirees under the bus, and destory Social Security and Medicare as we know it need more pixie dust to sprinkle on their Post Toasties.
"My mother studied her market for a year, opened a business with her retirement money, worked 16 hour days, 7 days a week for a year, advertised in every appropriate venue, and STILL lost her business within two years.
The moral of this story is that ALL retirees need a safety net, as not everyone 'gets rich' when working their butts off (9 out of 10 new restaurants FAIL, for example). So to those who think they could do a better job with their Social Security money, consider this a 'cautionary tale'."
YOU HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD WITH THAT.
This is the way the Republicans operate. Your statement that "...they do not want to be in charge," is the same thinking that they used in 2008. Eight years of Bush, and they didn't want to be in charge when the sh*t hit the fan. Let the 'black' guy clean up their mess was their thinking, and if he fails, well what do you expect from 'his kind.'
That's why they 'picked' McCain, the guy who fought Bush in the primaries, and who Bush had a Texas size dislike for. That's why McCain 'picked' Palin; not to win, but to lose.
The conundrum is: THEY WILL WIN because the ELECTION HAS ALREADY BEEN RIGGED WITH VOTER SUPPRESSION WITH STRICT VOTER ID REGULATIONS AND PURGING.
WAKE UP! WE ARE SCREWED!
Your analysis make certain assumptions, and we know what happens when we ASS U ME.
The correct word is CRAZY, not SANE. You have heard the expression, "Crazy like a Fox."
The second assumption you make is that it is a bona fide conundrum. It' a problem, for sure, but I'm a bit more optimistic this time given the increased 'smarts' of the now better informed citizen/voter through such venues as RSN.
Keep participating, and Always Ask Why.
Get it?
The Dems, like fools, destroyed our nation's economic future, repealing Glass-Steagall and blocking all efforts to regulate derivatives, otherwise known as mathematical alchemy.
That's why this election is so confusing. Maybe we should just make the process simpler by only allowing us to vote for banks and big financial houses--they are the ones who seem to own our votes and the system, and most benefit from our votes.
On one count, I can understand his choice of Ryan: the guy seems to have more of a backbone than Romney himself. In fact, Romney comes off more like a jellyfish compared to Ryan.
Personally, I think Ryan represents the very epitome of the Republican worldview wherein selfishness is held up as the highest virtue.
"MEDICARE KILLER! MEDICARE KILLER!"
Does Romney actually want to lose?
Americans are so trusting of TV and Internet we let it into our minds uncensored and accept the "big" reality because we do not think such a broad vision can be faked.
1. Consider Hitler and his thugs took over Germany with newsreels, flyers and faked incidents that made people believe terror was the norm.
2. The media, owned by the right wing, is starting to really change in nature, and that even included PBS.
How many of us would grudgingly accept a Republican victory resigning ourselves to trying harder next time if the media told us with the right cues that Democrats were not turning out at the polls?
How many of us would get mad, because we heard that Republican's voter ID laws worked and kept people from voting, or that young people were de-energized, or whatever data we needed to fill in ourselves for us to perceive the reality?
What I am saying is that a lot of what we see as our national narrative is phony baloney, and eventually that is going to get bigger and bigger and expand to take over almost everything as real news sources get snuffed out like the last flame of a campfire ....
Just think about how do we know a small minority of thugs with literally trillions of dollars to play with cannot apply that money in the right places to create a suspension of our disbelief?
Thoughts?
It was Abe Lincoln who said "You can fool ALL of the people SOME of the time, and SOME of the people ALL of the time but, you can't fool ALL the people ALL of the time"
Bob Dylan quoted old Abe in one of his 'talkin' blues' back in the 1960's. He added his own quotable invitation, which was, "You can be in my dream, if I can be in yours."
Just so you are not fooled by Democrats?
paul ryan is worse than nixon's guy! spirew agnew or whomever-- the one who resigned as VP for... wait for it...
INCOME TAX EVASION!!!!
how desperate are people getting that romney is actually *close* to obama in polls?
im not happy w/ either of them, but im disgusted w/ the idea that americans cant seem to make ONE choice out of more than TWO options!!
after it became nearly impossible for me to walk, i became PISSED that only 11% of voting places are accessible to people w/ disabilities--
then i started voting absentee...
the majority of citizens in this nations are uninvolved, and while im the first to scream about the thousands of flaws in this "system," i also feel like calling people out who say, "oooo ahhhhh it's too HARD for us to vote... waaaaaaaaa!!!"
really? did anyone see pictures of people standing in line for MORE THAN 24 HOURS to vote in the first german election the year that they were reunified?
It's not that some people are too lazy to get an ID; it's more that the whole notion of voter fraud is a red herring. There is so much more 'election fraud' than 'voter fraud' it's ridiculous.
First off, the 50% of eligible voters who don't vote, don't need an ID. Secondly, it's the unfairness of saying to some elderly person who has voted at the same place since FDR; has signed the book every time since FDR; is recognized by everyone at the polling place, and addressed by first name, is now told that they can't vote because they don't have an ID is the real tragedy. Many people who were born at home, and not in a hospital, don't have a 'birth certificate,' but their birth is duly noted in the family Bible. To get a driver's license ID, one needs a valid birth certificate; the family Bible won't do.
It's the insidious unfairness of all these attempts to prevent a problem that doesn't exist; that only attempts to deny, deny and deny 'certain' people from voting, that is the issue here, not the inherent laziness of a certain few.
Well, finally, we agree on something!
Stop the World, I Want to Get Off!
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