Posted on Monday, August 20, 2012 - 11:57 am:

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Radford business owner declines request from Joe Biden's entourage to stop in store
The owner of Crumb and Get It says he doesn't agree with the Obama administration's policies.

http://www.wdbj7.com/news/wdbj7-radford-business-o wner-declines-joe-bidens-request-to-stop-in-store- 20120815,0,4370357.story

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Posted on Monday, August 20, 2012 - 03:25 pm:

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Morning Bell: Obama Edits Official State Department Documents to Tout Himself
Amy Payne, August 17, 2012

Inserting himself into the biographies of past presidents on the White House website apparently wasn't enough for President Obama. His State Department is now editing its descriptions of foreign countries into yet another taxpayer-subsidized campaign commercial for the Obama Administration. The State Department has recently ended its long-running series of Background Notes, which were analytical, objective histories of other countries. In their place, new 'Fact Sheets' now tout Obama's policies and actions toward each nation. ... This follows an Administration trend that goes back to 2009. In March of that year, the Administration was caught editing President George W. Bush's biography to soften his listed accomplishments, and it quickly reversed course. Just a few months ago, it was discovered that White House staff had edited the biographies of many past presidents on whitehouse.gov to include a bullet point or two inserting President Obama into each historical narrative. These remain on the site, including a fabrication they inserted about President Ronald Reagan's tax policy to make it seem similar to Obama's. ... Using taxpayer resources to blatantly promote the president's positions on foreign policy -- and even editing the historical record -- is an egregious abuse of power.

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Posted on Monday, August 20, 2012 - 04:38 pm:

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Romney and Ryan Turn the Tables on Obama
By Michael Barone, August 20, 2012

Mitt Romney's selection of Paul Ryan was supposed to be a problem for the Republicans. So said a chorus of chortling Democrats. So said a gaggle of anonymous seasoned Republican operatives. All of which was echoed gleefully by mainstream media.

The problem, these purveyors of the conventional wisdom all said, was Medicare -- to be more specific, the future changes in Medicare set out in the budget resolutions Ryan fashioned as House Budget Committee chairman and persuaded almost all House and Senate Republicans to vote for.

But while Democrats licked their chops at the prospect of scaring old ladies that they'd be sent downhill in wheelchairs, the Medicare issue seems to be working in the other direction.

Romney and Ryan have gone on the offense, noting that while their plan calls for no changes for current Medicare recipients and those over 55, Obamacare, saved from demolition by Chief Justice John Roberts, cuts $716 billion from the politically popular Medicare to pay for Obama's politically unpopular health care law.

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Posted on Monday, August 20, 2012 - 04:40 pm:

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There is no limit to what you can accomplish if you don't care who gets the credit. --Ronald Reagan.

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Posted on Monday, August 20, 2012 - 05:28 pm:

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Paul Ryan: The $5 Trillion Man
Christopher J. Conover | Forbes, August 17, 2012

Many differences exist between President Barack Obama and Congressman Paul Ryan. But the single largest one is $5.3 trillion. That's the astonishing difference between the cumulative amount of federal spending the former proposes over the next 10 years and the far lower figure that would result were the nation to adopt Rep. Ryan's Path to Prosperity.

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Posted on Tuesday, August 21, 2012 - 05:05 am:

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Romney-Ryan Collaboration Began in 2007
By Michael Barbaro | The New York Times, Aug 17, 2012

It was supposed to be a 15-minute courtesy visit from a Republican with big presidential aspirations to a rising star in Congress with big ideas about how to address the nation’s fiscal problems.

Mitt Romney, who had just left office as governor of Massachusetts and was moving to the right on issues like abortion, was beginning to immerse himself in federal budget policy. Representative Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin, who on that day in early 2007 had just become the top Republican on the House Budget Committee, was promoting a small-government libertarianism that within a few years would become Republican Party orthodoxy.

Inside the Longworth House Office Building, 15 minutes turned into an hour as the two men traded theories about how to overhaul Medicare, Social Security and the tax code, a pair of policy mavens out-geeking each other over esoterica like border-adjustable taxes. “We went deep into the weeds,” Mr. Ryan recalled in an interview.

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Posted on Tuesday, August 21, 2012 - 06:56 am:

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Romney-Ryan Forces Americans to Finally Face Looming Fiscal Doom
By Ken Blackwell, August 21, 2012

We do not know who will win the White House in November. But we do know that American politics has crossed the Rubicon on spending and entitlements, and these issues will at long last complete the journey from a forbidden third rail to a central element of national politics. Even if Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan lose this year's battle to Barack Obama, they will win the war on the challenge of our generation.

Congressman Paul Ryan is best known for his budget, the Ryan Roadmap, which ties together the two sides of our fiscal-crisis coin: First, the major entitlements of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid will soon be bankrupt and unable to provide for millions of beneficiaries. And second, our growing $16 trillion debt will result in an unprecedented economic disaster if not balanced and then paid off.

President Barack Obama and his Democrats are replying with the inexcusably-irresponsible argument that overhauling entitlements and balancing the budget are cruel and unnecessary. They cry that this will harm seniors and deprive people of needed benefits, willfully ignoring the reality -- with can be proved beyond doubt on a napkin using fifth-grade math skills -- that the status quo cannot and will not continue.

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Posted on Tuesday, August 21, 2012 - 05:13 pm:

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Romney Supports Audit of the Federal Reserve
By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times, Aug 20, 2012

Borrowing Rep. Ron Paul's presidential campaign push, Mitt Romney said Monday he thinks the Federal Reserve should face an audit.

"Very plain and simple, the answer is yes. The Federal Reserve should be accountable. We should see what they're doing," Mr. Romney, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, said at a town hall in New Hampshire.

Mr. Paul, the Texas congressman who is still technically in the running for the Republican nomination, though he does not have the delegates to win it at next week's convention, made an audit of the Fed a chief part of his campaign.

Earlier this year, the House passed Mr. Paul's bill to grant the Government Accountability Office the power to conduct such a broad audit, though Senate Democrats have shown no inclination to bring that bill to the floor.

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Posted on Tuesday, August 21, 2012 - 09:07 pm:

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Romney-Ryan Ticket Is History-Shaping Choice
By Grady Means | The Washington Times, Aug 21, 2012

Mitt Romney made a wise but risky choice in selecting Paul Ryan as his candidate for vice president. He’s a good pick to stabilize the budget and Medicare as well as support global economic recovery and political stability. The election is now focused on the very highest stakes.

But the White House wants to fool Americans and trivialize the election.

The Obama campaign and much of the media are having a snark-fest and have immediately labeled Mr. Ryan as “radical,” “mean-spirited,” “small-minded,” “unprepared,” “nerd,” “boring” and so forth. Mr. Obama will argue that Mr. Ryan wants to destroy Medicare, that he is the enemy of the elderly, that he cares only about the rich and successful. All of this is false.

The radical Chicago anarchist Saul Alinsky was clear that when you can’t win the argument on the merits of the issue or your record, you must diminish, demonize and destroy your opponent. Alinsky has had no better student than President Obama.

The irony is overwhelming. Mr. Ryan’s “sin” is that he has designed a budget proposal to save Social Security and Medicare and put the United States back on sound financial footing.

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Posted on Wednesday, August 22, 2012 - 12:06 pm:

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Paul Ryan Takes Aim At Obama For ‘You didn’t build that’ In Roanoke
By Felicia Sonmez | Washington Post, Wednesday, August 22, 11:06 AM

When Paul Ryan visited the parking lot of a hardware store in this southwest Virginia city Wednesday morning, he didn’t just take aim at President Obama for the “you didn’t build that” remark he made four miles down the road a month earlier.

He also seized on a local bakery owner’s decision not to host Vice President Biden and his entourage this month.

In his sixth event in the Old Dominion since being named Mitt Romney’s running mate this month, Ryan was introduced Wednesday by Chris McMurray, owner of the Crumb and Get It Cookie Co. about an hour away in Radford, Va.

“How ironic that I would have the privilege of standing before you today and telling you the truth about small business in America — and of all places, in the beautiful city of Roanoke!” McMurray told the cheering crowd of more than 1,000 people as he introduced Ryan.

Speaking in the morning sun and with banners reading “We Did Build It!” in the background, McMurray told the crowd about how he declined last week when Secret Service agents approached him about hosting a visit by Biden.

“Nothing personal, but I just happen to disagree with the president and vice president on a few things,” he told the enthusiastic, mostly older crowd.

When Ryan took the stage, he joked of McMurray: “He just gave my speech!”

Read the rest of the article here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/paul-ryan-t akes-aim-at-obama-for-you-didnt-build-that-in-roan oke/2012/08/22/b7e019f0-ec65-11e1-aca7-272630dfd15 2_story.html

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Posted on Wednesday, August 22, 2012 - 12:27 pm:

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Ryan, at Roanoke County campaign stop, says GOP can spur 12 million jobs, 'reignite that American dream'
The Roanoke Times, Aug 22, 2012

Republican vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan rallied an enthusiastic crowd of supporters this morning at Northwest True Value Hardware in Roanoke County.

Ryan cast the election as a choice between an “entrepreneurial society” – as represented by Ryan and presidential candidate Mitt Romney – or a “welfare state” as represented by incumbent President Barack Obama.

Ryan – flanked by Chris McMurray of Radford’s Crumb and Get It Cookie Company – repeatedly hammered the Obama administration’s approach to business, which they say was crystalized in his “If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen” remark during a speech last month in Roanoke.

“When Obama came into office, it was tough,” Ryan said. “He inherited a difficult situation. Here’s the problem: He made it worse. He can’t run on accomplishments. It’s a failed record.”

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