Rating Ryan: How good a congressman?
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Click here to view a special section on Paul Ryan, selected to be Republican candidate Mitt Romney's running mate in the 2012 presidential campaign.
Ryan ratings
Project Vote Smart lists ratings put out by dozens of interest groups for members of Congress. Ratings are on a scale of 0 percent—meaning the group disagreed with all the member's votes on issues important to that organization—to 100 percent, meaning the member voted exactly as that group wanted.
The League of Conservation Voters, for example, gives Paul Ryan a 20 percent lifetime rating, while the American Conservative Union gives him a lifetime score of 92 percent.
Click here to view Ryan's ratings.
How do you rate your congressman?
In the case of Paul Ryan, the answer likely comes down to your political preferences and whether you've ever interacted with him.
The vice-presidential candidate also is running to keep his seat as the representative of Wisconsin's 1st District.
Political scientists rate a legislator's performance on service and policy, said Barry Burden, a UW-Madison political science professor.
Service includes how much time the legislator spends in his district and how he responds to constituents' individual problems, Burden said.
Service could include government benefits the legislator secured for his district, Burden said.
However, if a legislator is ideologically opposed to pork-barrel projects, he might be rated on how few times he has advocated for government spending in his district, Burden suggested.
Ryan, who is running for his eighth term in the House of Representatives, is a budget hawk who has opposed pork-barrel spending and has worked to give the president a line-item veto, which is one of the things he and President Barack Obama agree on.
Service
An unemployed Janesville woman wrote to The Gazette in 2010 to praise Paul Ryan.
The woman had lost her husband of 37 years.
"He was a disabled Marine Corps combat veteran of Vietnam. In order to receive his final monthly disability check, I had to apply through the Veterans Administration, and was told I would get it in one to two months," she wrote.
Two months later, no check and news that there was a six-month backlog.
Like many who have trouble with the federal bureaucracy, she contacted her congressman's office. She filled out a form and quickly got her check, she wrote.
"From what I read, hear and see, Congressman Ryan truly fights for his constituents," she wrote.
That's a classic tale of constituent service. It's the bread and butter of any congressman, and it appears Ryan's staff has done it well.
Ryan posts eight of his 14 staff members in the 1st District, according to spokeswoman Smythe Anderson, so it would appear constituent service is important to him.
Anderson said Ryan's office handled more than 45,000 constituent requests in his first 13 years in Congress, or about 3,400 requests a year, more than nine each day.
Accessibility
Whether every constituent who brought a problem to Ryan's office was as pleased as the Janesville widow is impossible to know.
But that's just one way to measure the service of a member of Congress.
Accessibility is another. Anderson said Ryan has spoken to constituents at more than 550 "town hall meetings" in the district, including six last May.
Some have complained, however, that Ryan spends much of his time at these meetings talking with charts about the country's fiscal problems rather than listening.
Ryan's interviews with 1st District journalists also make him accessible to district residents, Anderson said.
Ryan's congressional campaign spokesman did not respond to Gazette questions about how he has served his constituents.
Bridges to somewhere
Ryan's Democratic congressional opponent, Rob Zerban of Kenosha, was asked for his opinion of Ryan's service over 13-plus years in Congress. Zerban's spokesman came up with one gripe.
"Time and again, Paul Ryan has put his own political ambitions ahead of the needs of our district. There's just no way for him to defend voting in favor of the Bridge to Nowhere while failing to fix 15 structurally deficient bridges and highways here in southeast Wisconsin," wrote Zerban spokesman Karthik Ganapathy.
The so-called Bridge to Nowhere in Alaska was projected to cost $398 million to serve 50 island residents.
Ganapathy provided a map from the federal Bureau of Transportation Statistics, showing 15 "structurally deficient bridges" on the Interstate system in the 1st District.
All those bridges have been repaired since 2010, or they are scheduled for maintenance, repair or replacement, according to William Oliva of the state Department of Transportation.
"Structurally deficient" bridges are safe, and they are monitored, Oliva said.
Ganapathy did not respond to an email about Oliva's information.
Policy to the right
"In terms of policy, the question is whether the legislator voted in a way and pushed for legislation that constituents preferred," Burden said.
The district has become more Republican over two redistrictings since Ryan began representing it in 1998, but it retains its union-blue collar roots and is considered a swing district.
The district went for George W. Bush by 53 percent in the 2004 presidential election. Then the district went blue in 2008, preferring Obama by an even narrower margin, 51.4 percent.
Ryan appears to be more conservative than his district. He is, in fact, the most conservative presidential running mate since 1900, more conservative than Dick Cheney and his former mentor, Jack Kemp, according to a rating system used by political scientists called DW-NOMINATE.
"There are some problems in making comparisons over this lengthy period of time because the issues were so different in the early 20th century, but it is still interesting," said UW-Madison political science professor David Canon.
If the district is split about 50-50, should Ryan be aiming for the political center? Or should he do what he thinks is right and let the voters decide? Ryan appears to have chosen the latter.
Another rating scale, by the National Journal, rates Ryan as more conservative than 68 percent of the House of Representatives.
The National Journal ratings peg Ryan as most conservative on social issues, placing him as more conservative than 74 percent of the House. On economic policy, he is more conservative than 66 percent, and of foreign policy, 57 percent.
Ryan calls it "principled representation." He says the nation is at risk because of its debt and budget deficits, and he has spent most of his career trying to change the government's fiscal course, even going so far as to say that both Democratic and Republican administrations are to blame.
Ryan seems to be pleasing his constituents, as they have returned him to Congress with sizeable majorities since 2000. But some say that's because the Democrats failed to mount credible campaigns.
Bringing the bacon
Congressmen often are rated on how many federal dollars they can funnel into their districts. But Ryan has crusaded against pork-barrel politics. He says on his website that the House Republicans imposed a ban on earmarking spending in 2009-10, and they expanded that to the whole house when they took the majority in 2011.
But Ryan has not always been averse to voting for measures that send money to his district. Ryan's own press release in 2005 talks of how he voted for the $711.9 million Transportation Equity Act, which included projects Ryan said he requested for his district.
Those projects included $12.8 million for work on Interstate 94, Highway 11 at Burlington and Interstate 43 in Rock County, as well as preliminary engineering funding for Kenosha-Racine-Milwaukee commuter rail and a Kenosha streetcar expansion.
Advocacy
Ryan also worked on the committee that tried to get General Motors to keep producing vehicles at its Janesville plant, according to another committee member and Democrat Tim Cullen.
Cullen said Ryan was a tireless, behind-the-scenes worker for GM.
Cullen also said Ryan worked with him in the early 2000s to get the government to locate a Medicare call center with 400 jobs in Janesville.
Both efforts failed, but Ryan worked hard on them and did not seek publicity for his efforts, Cullen said.
A spokesman did not respond to a request for examples of Ryan's successes on behalf of the district's economy.
The Washington Post recently reported that Ryan urged the Transportation Department to consider the city of Janesville's request for $3.8 million, which would help build a new city transit center.
Ryan had secured $735,000 for the same project in 2008, the Post reported.
Sep 18, 2012 at 4:53 p.m.
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Nothing but a liar and always will be
Sep 11, 2012 at 4:56 p.m.
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Regarding the taxing of the wealthy - it should be fair tax for ALL...not one that the rich and wealthy feel they do not have to pay.
For example: According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (and MANY other sources) "Republican U.S. Rep. Tom Petri did not pay any state income taxes from 2002 through 2005..."
http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepoliti...
and...read this one..."Scott Walker's biggest donor paid no......."
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http://www.jsonline.com/business/beloit-...
Sep 11, 2012 at 12:53 p.m.
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Gandy -- get a clue -- if you tax the wealthy more -- what happens -- they leave and you get less. What happens when you tax corporations more -- they leave and the jobs go with them. Anyone who believes in increased taxes as a solution or deficit spending doesnt understand basic economics nor human nature and will be surprized when the results roll in.
As for subsidies -- either no industry is subsidizes or all should be. The exceptions people make are sometimes based upon national interest and subsidizing within an industry -- specific segements, say alt energy products, disrupts the free market. So if you are saying no loans and subsidies including companies in alt energy -- we could find common ground. But you cannot subsidize companies like Solyndra and then not provide assistance to big oil. Both are making investments in Americas energy and future. Both have an equal stake.
Sep 10, 2012 at 9:09 p.m.
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The Results Of Austerity
In practice the theory that removing government makes the economy grow has not worked out. Several European countries have been severely cutting budgets, and the result has been that the economies in the "austerity" countries have suffered. These economies appear to have fallen into a downward cycle where the "reforms" reduce demand, growth stalls, this reduces tax revenue, which means the deficit-cutting is not effective. (And meanwhile the economies are ruined and people are in misery.)
The austerity cycle happening in Europe works something like this:
Bankers demand "austerity" which drives up unemployment, cuts demand and slows economic growth. The reduction in economic growth causes tax revenue to shrink and increases use of whatever "safety net" programs remain, thereby increasing budget shortfalls.
So bankers demand more "austerity" which drives up unemployment, cuts demand and slows economic growth. The reduction in economic growth causes tax revenue to shrink and increases use of whatever "safety net" programs remain, thereby increasing budget shortfalls. .
So bankers demand more "austerity" which drives up unemployment, cuts demand and slows economic growth. The reduction in economic growth causes tax revenue to shrink and increases use of whatever "safety net" programs remain, thereby increasing budget shortfalls.
So bankers demand more "austerity" ... well you might be starting to get the picture.
Recession Resulting From Austerity
These are the GDP growth rates in European "austerity" countries:
Spain expects -1.7% from 0.4% 2011
Greece -10% to 11%
Portugal -1.2%
Italy -0.7%
Ireland -1.1%
UK -.7%
http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2012...
Sep 10, 2012 at 8:14 p.m.
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If he hasn't "brought home the bacon" so far why should constituents believe that he will do so in another capacity? Also, what is his stance on possible reported terrorist threats? Is it a do nothing policy also? Do American voters send congressmen to Washington D.C. to do as little as possible and collect large speaking honorariums? Would a little bit of pork be good for a district where voters are starving due to a lack of attention?
Sep 10, 2012 at 7:02 p.m.
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SS and Medicare can be fixed without gutting them the way Romney/Ryan are proposing. Look at Europe, austerity doesn`t work. Stopping spending will not help now, only drive us back into recession. Nobody is saying do nothing. Romney/Ryan plans have been shown to not be fiscally possible without putting more of a burden on lower/middle class people to give more tax cuts to the affluent to save, not invest into job creation, because there will be no demand.
Sep 10, 2012 at 5:25 p.m.
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Don't cut the military budget, the good lord loves a hot barrel.
http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-18563_162-32...
Maybe start at the 2.3 TRILLION dollars in transactions that are completely unaccounted for.
Sep 10, 2012 at 4:54 p.m.
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Pharm,
So whats your solution? No cuts and drive our future generation into infinity. Head towards a total collapse? What is the solution? You cannot continue to spend more than you collect. That senario doesnt work. If you completely slash military spending, millions will be out of work. So realistically, the answer is what? Tax everyone such that they can no longer afford to use parks?
We need to start having that difficult discussion, regardless of parties. The best answer is to STOP spending.
Sep 10, 2012 at 4:39 p.m.
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It's true spending does not seem to get you out of the debt/deficit cycle that we are in. However, FDR and Ronald Reagan both did just that...each from a different party and each widely recognized as a successful President. Would it surprise people to know that the five former Democratic Presidents (Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy, and Harry S. Truman) all reduced public debt as a share of GDP, while the last four Republican Presidents (George W. Bush, George H. W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, and Gerald Ford) all oversaw an increase in the country's debt load. Odd given today's rhetoric, isn't it? Defense spending is still spending and tax breaks for the largest wage earners is just another sort of spending. If tax breaks for the wealthy are part of the plan, just make sure the amount saved is really used for re-investment in potential economic gain. If not, don't do it because it acts exactly like a spending increase.
Each situation calls for an ideology for that time and history has proven that no one ideology works all the time.
Sep 10, 2012 at 4:28 p.m.
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"Let me warn you" that this is the idea behind the GOP support of SS, Medicare and Medicaid - nothing original in the message:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3RHnKYNv...
Sep 10, 2012 at 4:06 p.m.
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"The major disagreement was over the potential impact of the GOP plan. Obama gave a dark picture of disastrously deep cuts and outright elimination of certain popular and critical programs — ranging from student loans and cancer research to border security and air traffic controllers.
Obama gave specific figures for the budget casualties, including “over 200,000 children” who would be shut out of Head Start and the loss of 4,500 federal grants “to combat violent crime, financial crime, and help secure our borders.” He also said “hundreds of national parks would be forced to close for part or all of the year,” and FAA cuts would result in “the complete elimination of air traffic control services in parts of the country.”
Obama prefaced his remarks about the impact of the House budget by saying, “I want to actually go through what it would mean for our country if these cuts were to be spread out evenly.” He later (correctly) anticipated that Republicans will criticize him for that. “Now, you can anticipate Republicans may say, well, we’ll avoid some of these cuts — since they don’t specify exactly the cuts that they would make,” he said.
Romney and Ryan jumped on Obama for basing his dire scenario on across-the-board cuts and claiming that the Republicans did not detail specific budget cuts.
“But, of course, you wouldn’t cut programs on a proportional basis,” Romney said. “There would be some programs you would … eliminate outright.” On his Facebook page, Ryan said Obama’s assumption that the budget “makes these kinds of indiscriminate cuts is false.” He says that the plan makes “dozens of specific assumptions to justify our numbers.”
Romney is correct that the GOP plan does not cut programs proportionally, so Obama’s list of cuts may or may not be accurate. But Obama is also right in that the plan doesn’t provide enough details to know what the Republicans would cut in most cases."
factcheck.org
No specifics given. Republicans are sure to be upset over some of them, if they were to be provided before the election.
Sep 10, 2012 at 3:28 p.m.
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Representative Ryan Has Been Unwilling to Say Which Tax Deductions He Would End
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"A NYT piece praised Representative Ryan's willingness to specify the items in the budget that he would cut to meet his deficit targets. (Actually, according to the Congressional Budget Office's analysis of his proposal it would eliminate just about everything in the federal budget by 2040, except Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Defense Department.) However the piece did not point out that Representative Ryan, like Governor Romney, has refused to identify the tax deductions he would eliminate to make up for his proposed reductions in tax rates.
In order to raise anywhere near the revenue he claims, Representative Ryan would have to eliminate the deductions for mortgage interest, property taxes, state and local income taxes, employer provided health insurance and just about every other deduction that benefits lower and middle income taxpayers. For some reason, both candidates have been unwilling to acknowledge this fact."
I`m glad some seem to know what is being cut in Ryan`s budget, when even he will not specify the cuts.
Sep 10, 2012 at 3 p.m.
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It is the middle ground between darkness and shadow, between cult religion and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the depths of his ignorance. This is the dimension of Doom. It is an area which we call "The EZone".
Otherwise known as,"The Patriot Zone".
Sep 10, 2012 at 2:27 p.m.
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We can all be thankful that we don't live in the Ezone.
Sep 10, 2012 at 12:43 p.m.
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Dave -- I think that the choice is much easier than what you say. I would agree a solution / fix is not a quick. However, I have never seen a solution that recommends that you spend your way out of a deficit or debt. That is just a crazy suggestion. That would indicate that those that continued to refi their homes and take out the value should have been fine, that additional spending, liquidity driven from additional debt will solve the problem. When you consider what is being suggested by those on the left, it screams of the same issues that got people in trouble. Now people like me, responsible , are also suffering and I have no patience nor mercy on those that helped drive us all off the cliff and still have their foot on the accelerator. What we need now, is a business solution, one that manages finances and looks at the checkbook to see what the balance is every month. Does that mean some will see additional pain -- yes, but for the long term we will be much better off and leave a much better America for our kids, and thats what its all about.
Sep 10, 2012 at 12:37 p.m.
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dave martino...you are sooo right. There are 3 things that could be done to fix 95% of the problems our nation is facing. Repeal Citizens United and Graham Leach Bliley and reinstate Glass Steagal. Neither party has the brass to bring up any of this because those who paid to put/keep them in office do not want that to happen.
Sep 10, 2012 at 10:11 a.m.
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http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/08/3...
“"Son. You have a choice: You can be part of the problem, or you can be part of the solution."
A classic false dichotomy, but, even stranger, a classic quote by Eldridge Cleaver.
Sep 10, 2012 at 10:10 a.m.
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The constant rhetoric from the far left and far right on this site and generally everywhere in the news media does not determine anything. The blind followers and extremists from each party will mindlessly vote as they always have and always will while the moderates in each party and independents will determine the winner. Do facts really matter anymore or is it just news clips and cosmetic sound bites? Do people really understand what "trickle down" or conversely "prime the pump" economics mean or do they just want to use generic terms they have heard elsewhere like big government or unfair tax rates for the well-off? Is your party simply handed to you hereditarily like the color of your eyes or should you educate yourself and think about making a real choice based on facts? Do people know that there are less people employed by the government than under the last administration? Do people really think that a business owner will use lower taxes in a questionable economy to try to expand a business? This hasn't happened in almost 12 years. This may enlighten some...I prefer to pocket the tax break which provides more stability for me in a risky economic climate.
Hard core republicans want less government and regulation until there's a banking crisis then they ask "how did this happen?" or unless it has to do with a social issue they may be morally opposed to. Even free enterprise needs a referee. Nobody believes it's really free enterprise, do they? Phone companies and the airline industry have not benefited as a result of deregulation nor have their customers.
Hard core democrats want to support everyone who cannot support themselves. This is a noble-sounding position but not feasible in our current situation and never viable long term. Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are part of your problem not part of the solution.
Republicans hate Obamacare and Democrats hate lower taxes on the rich. Neither party has put forth details of a plan to fix the problems we have. General comments like fix health care, employ more teachers, fix social security or privatize medicare are not plans...they are sound bites that appeal to their respective bases who are blindly confident there must be a plan behind these goals somewhere.
Maybe the voters should start to demand a plan and some details not just the rhetoric. I guess if you share no details, nobody can hold you accountable with facts which is exactly the state of our political system today.
Sep 10, 2012 at 9:45 a.m.
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Well, let's look at his track record...
Sep 10, 2012 at 9:34 a.m.
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BostonBill
Obviously you didn't read the first comment.....which I was responding to. I didn't think I had to copy it all for you to comprehend who I was replying to....but here it is:
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Sep 9, 2012 at 6:37 p.m.
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Great big article saying not much about anything. Ryan was in how long and what did he do? But, he expected SO MUCH from Obama in such a short time. (shakes head)
Sep 10, 2012 at 9:30 a.m.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fZkdjvsL...
Even Fox doesn`t believe that.
Sep 10, 2012 at 9:22 a.m.
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Sadly selective memories and ignoring positions stated are a problem for some people. It has clearly been stated that moving spending to 2008 levels has been proposed. Declaring these are unknown is just another way to change the topic from the failed spending plans of the past 4 years that have caused this nation to be over 16 trillion in debt.
Sep 10, 2012 at 9:13 a.m.
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http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2...
Ryan`s budget cuts veterans benefits?
How can we really tell what he and Romney are proposing when they won`t specify the cuts?
Sep 10, 2012 at 8:34 a.m.
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While in 2008 the nation was basking in the glow of the anointed one and pushing those levers at the top for Democrats, Ryan still won his district thanks to independents. The left just can seems to understand the importance of that.
But of course this is the same party who thought recalling a Governor and booing God was smart.
Sep 10, 2012 at 7:43 a.m.
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NVgrf I understand it must be hard for you to accept real facts, but if you read the story the person I mentioned was also named in it. Just because you can't defend the failed data of Obama doesn't mean you have to deflect from them...soon you will be on step two of your grief.
Sep 10, 2012 at 7:40 a.m.
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Paul is an excellent congressman and will make an excellent Vice President and President.
Get out there and Beat the Socialists Paul. !
Sep 10, 2012 at 7:24 a.m.
Sep 10, 2012 at 7:20 a.m.
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There really is no point to staying on topic.
Sep 10, 2012 at 6:40 a.m.
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Look what Obama built, Carter#2 - Labor Force Participation Rate Falls To Lowest Level in 31 years.
http://www.businessinsider.com/labor-for...
Sep 9, 2012 at 11:33 p.m.
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In the end, November voting is going to come down to who the voter can associate more with. Obama was a lawyer and law professor that has made most of his money from book sales. Biden was reported to be one of the poorest senators when he was nominated for V.P. and it was mentioned even his wife with a Doctorate made more than him. Romney on the other hand is portrayed more as a Wall Street-Gordon Gekko character that loved to make money for his financial firm at all cost. Bain Capital was founded in 1984 and now has over $65 billion in assets according to their website. Most people should realize that’s a really short time to have that kind of money. Ryan went to college and was reported to have been elected congressmen by age 28. Some people his age are still paying off school loans while he is now a multi-millionaire who made most of his money from the tax payers while the rest is inherited. It ultimately comes down to the old “were you born rich or poor?” and this is how you will vote if you are a swing voter.
It should be a safer bet to pick Obama over Romney solely on the fact that Republicans like war and warfare. A lot of their contributions come from defense companies that see a direct profit during wartime. Keeping a heavy, well armed military is way, way more costly than a Healthcare bill.
Sep 9, 2012 at 11:33 p.m.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fZkdjvsL...
Sep 9, 2012 at 10:42 p.m.
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For years I observed in various Gazette forums that Wisconsin votes were MEANINGLESS in the US House of Representatives because Tammy Baldwin ALWAYS voted against Paul Ryan. It appalled me. She ALWAYS cancelled him out. Couldn't they get together on at least a few issues? Couldn't Wisconsin stand for something on any issue? Shame on both of them!!!
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We need a strong enough third party to stop the two-party BS.
Sep 9, 2012 at 9:34 p.m.
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"Ryan also worked on the committee that tried to get General Motors to keep producing vehicles at its Janesville plant, according to another committee member and Democrat Tim Cullen.
Cullen said Ryan was a tireless, behind-the-scenes worker for GM.
Cullen also said Ryan worked with him in the early 2000s to get the government to locate a Medicare call center with 400 jobs in Janesville.
Both efforts failed, but Ryan worked hard on them and did not seek publicity for his efforts, Cullen said.
A spokesman did not respond to a request for examples of Ryan's successes on behalf of the district's economy.
The Washington Post recently reported that Ryan urged the Transportation Department to consider the city of Janesville's request for $3.8 million, which would help build a new city transit center.
Ryan had secured $735,000 for the same project in 2008, the Post reported."
Well, as Mr. Ryan has been re-elected numerous times in such a blue area, I give him credit. He has worked for and earned all that he has received.
Go Ryan.
P.S. After reading many of the comments on here, I am even more confident about November's election. There are about 20 people that make 80% of the posts against Romney/Ryan/Walker etc...
Sep 9, 2012 at 9:10 p.m.
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Once again, we read the typical switcheroo by the wislady.
Sep 9, 2012 at 8:24 p.m.
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Really? Shame on America for expecting too much from a president!
Obama needs to quit whining, he is the one who asked for the job.
Sep 9, 2012 at 8:08 p.m.
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To answer the question-A very, very good congressmen. He has represented us well while remembering he also represents the entire country. He will be an excellent Vice-President (and President).
Sep 9, 2012 at 8:05 p.m.
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Yup, he has been quite the Congressman. In thirteen years he passed TWO bills into Law. One renamed the Janesville Post Office and the other related to excise taxes on arrows...as in bows and arrows. Yup, quite the legislator! But he sure talks a good game!
Sep 9, 2012 at 7:46 p.m.
Sep 9, 2012 at 6:58 p.m.
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"Both efforts failed, but Ryan worked hard on them and did not seek publicity for his efforts, Cullen said." I guess he wouldn't want publicity on failures. Many people work hard but fail and many times get fired for lack of success. Isn't this what the neocons demand? But in Ryan's case - well not so much.
Sep 9, 2012 at 6:37 p.m.
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Great big article saying not much about anything. Ryan was in how long and what did he do? But, he expected SO MUCH from Obama in such a short time. (shakes head)
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