A few days ago, Paul Ryan was talking about “anchor babies.” 

And yet… this is the headline the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel chose to describe his views on immigration policy. 

(Source: jsonline.com)

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Former GOP campaign staffer busted for waging his own personal War on Women.

Raw Story: A former intern for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney was arrested Tuesday over an alleged sexual extortion scheme.

In a press release, the FBI said 21-year-old Adam Savader allegedly stalked 15 different women from three states between May 2012 and this past February.

The New York Daily News reported that Savader was a political science major at SUNY Farmingdale. He had worked on the political campaigns of Newt Gingrich, Paul Ryan, and Romney.

Savader claimed to have nude photos of the women, and threatened to release the photos unless they sent him more. He demanded that one woman answer “a series of personal questions, relating to sexual preferences, positions, etc.,” according to a FBI complaint. He also informed at least two women that he was masturbating to their stolen pictures.

“I swear on all that is holy. If you fuck with me again I will send these to your parents. I have no problem sending them to ur [sic] parents, friends and sorority sisters unless you cooperate by answering me,” he allegedly told one woman.

Some of the victims attended the same high school as Savader, according to the complaint.

Read more here.

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All the tired ideas from 2011 and 2012 are back: eliminating Medicare’s guarantee to retirees by turning it into a voucher plan; dispensing with Medicaid and food stamps by turning them into block grants for states to cut freely; repealing most of the reforms to health care and Wall Street; shrinking beyond recognition the federal role in education, job training, transportation and scientific and medical research. The public opinion of these callous proposals was made clear in the fall election, but Mr. Ryan is too ideologically fervid to have learned that lesson. (Read More.)

And people wondered why Joe Biden kept laughing at him. 

Paul Ryan teamed up with Todd Akin to co-sponsor a personhood bill that would, in effect, criminalize many forms of birth control, as well as IVF.  He co-sponsored a bill to redefine rape and refers to rape as a “method of conception.”  He co-sponsored the Protect Life/Let Women Die Act that would allow hospitals to refuse to perform a life-saving abortion on a dying woman. 

He also wrote this gem, in which he likens Roe v. Wade to Dred Scott.  And yes, that is a 1500+ word essay on reproductive rights that never once mentions women.

Over the last two years, Congressional Republicans have forced a 43 percent reduction in the primary FEMA grants that pay for disaster preparedness. Representatives Paul Ryan, Eric Cantor and other House Republicans have repeatedly tried to refuse FEMA’s budget requests when disasters are more expensive than predicted, or have demanded that other valuable programs be cut to pay for them. The Ryan budget, which Mr. Romney praised as “an excellent piece of work,” would result in severe cutbacks to the agency, as would the Republican-instigated sequester, which would cut disaster relief by 8.2 percent on top of earlier reductions.

“According to the Republican Party Platform and the man who wants to be one heartbeat away from the presidency, if a woman wants to have a baby via in vitro fertilization, she cannot.  Rape?  She has to.”  -Jon Stewart

All I Really Need to Know About Paul Ryan I Learned From This Soup Kitchen Photo Op

After Paul Ryan spent Saturday morning at a town hall meeting in Ohio’s Youngstown State University once again blaming President Obama for the shuttering of GM plant that closed before he took office, his campaign decided to show off their candidate’s compassionate side with a detour to a soup kitchen in Canfield.

An empty soup kitchen.

From the New York Times:

The [Ryan] family put on aprons and washed several large pans, though they did not appear to need washing, according to a pool reporter. There also was no one to serve at the soup kitchen, as breakfast had ended.

The Romney-Ryan position on health care is that many millions of Americans must be denied health insurance, and millions more deprived of the security Medicare now provides, in order to save money. At the same time, of course, Mr. Romney and Mr. Ryan are proposing trillions of dollars in tax cuts for the wealthy. So a literal description of their plan is that they want to expose many Americans to financial insecurity, and let some of them die, so that a handful of already wealthy people can have a higher after-tax income.

Just get out of the way. Stop talking about how you care about people. Show me something. Show me a policy. Show me a policy where you take responsibility. -Vice President Biden

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If not, I recommend it.

“Let’s make this country a tax shelter!”  -Paul Ryan, 2011.

Read the article from Mother Jones to learn more. 

Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime. Don’t feed fish.

Paul Ryan, talking about…welfare?

Brilliant young thinker, that one.

It’s a bit disturbing that somebody in such a position could be so heavily influenced by what was obviously really bad fiction.

Rob Zerban, on Paul Ryan’s obsession with Atlas Shrugged. 

A bit disturbing, indeed.