Paul Ryan raising money today in Medina
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SEATTLE -- Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan will be in the Seattle area Monday as part of a fundraising swing through the Northwest.
He's starting the day in Portland, and the Seattle stop is expected to be a private meeting at the home of Bruce McCaw in Medina.
Invitations for the event said Ryan would hold a VIP photo reception followed by a private dinner at a separate residence.
Tickets range from $1,000 for general participation, $2,500 for a picture with Ryan, and $25,000 for a dinner.
No public events are planned.
He's starting the day in Portland, and the Seattle stop is expected to be a private meeting at the home of Bruce McCaw in Medina.
Invitations for the event said Ryan would hold a VIP photo reception followed by a private dinner at a separate residence.
Tickets range from $1,000 for general participation, $2,500 for a picture with Ryan, and $25,000 for a dinner.
No public events are planned.
You know, one question that you TP droids need to answer - but won't - is...do you REALLY think that McCain would have done even half as well?
Even in EIGHT years?
And yet - again - you try to foist Stumble and Bum on the people of this country?
 @OrcasThunder why even ask?  These are the same people that thought Sarah Palin could step in as Commander and Chief.Â
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 @Andrew Bush It matters because they are complaining that Obama "has finished none of the job"...
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I wonder what I smelt burning... it was the romney ryan campaign....eww what a odor...
Just keep driving Ryan... Obama is going to wipe the floor and blow his nose on the tea party doilies....
Complain and whine all you want; Obama is going to win handily in November.
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 @caphillkid I don't know how those two sleep at night. Between knowing they are doing the majority of the people wrong and trying to remember what position they took on different issues yesterday, it's got to be long sleepless nights for them.
 @caphillkid Yea like cutting the deficit in half his first term, closing gitmo, and lets not forget that "most transparent administration"
 @CrankyPanky Poor crankypants.  Everything is Obamas fault in his world. Â
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 @CrankyPanky Latest Gallup Poll from September: Obama 49/Romney 44.
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But again, whine all you want. That's what you guys do best.Â
 @Andrew Bush http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_swing_state_tracking_poll
 @Sid Vishess LOL!  It doesn't matter you have just outed yourself as a "Breitbart" extremist.
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 @Andrew Bush The source is the Rasmussen Poll, dimwit.
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 Breitbart.com???  LOL
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Even Beitbart couldn't live with his own lies and half truths. Â Â
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Glad to see you get your news from a legitimate news organization.
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 @caphillkid  @CrankyPanky "Todayâs Rasmussen poll results show that in the eleven swing states, including Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin, which total 145 electoral votes, itâs Obama 46% and Romney 45%. "
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/09/10/Despite-media-hype-no-bounce-for-Obama-in-swing-states
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 @ulquiorra Hate from the leftest.
I think you have it wrong, I've heard the party of Hate is the GOP, "Right"?
 @T H I S  Thats freedom of speech to the republican extremists.Â
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 @CrankyPanky Well, for starters, Kansas House Speaker (R) Mike O'Neal
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/13/mike-oneal-obama-death-prayer-psalm-109_n_1205059.html
 @walkthisway Who told you that?
I heard he ran from Portland to Medina in "under 3 hours" but later admitted it took a little longer.Â
 @caphillkid Got stuck in the B1 slowdown...
 @caphillkid good one!
He would have to pay $25K and have his mouth duct taped for me to have lunch with him!
On CBS's "Face the Nation", Ryan stated:
"Number two, we're talking about revenue neutral tax reform. Meaning not losing revenue, but changing the way we raise revenue by plugging loopholes and tax shelters that are uniquely enjoyed by higher income earners, so that more of their income is subject to taxation. So that we can lower tax rates for everybody: Families, small businesses, get the economic growth and job creation,"
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"by plugging loopholes and tax shelters that are uniquely enjoyed by higher income earners" - does Willard know about this? And do the "Preserve the riches of the Rich" know that he seems to be saying he would push tax increases for the rich?
 @OrcasThunder Anyone besides me see Romney's interview on Meet the Press yesterday?
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David Gregory asked him for one specific loophole that he would end for the rich. Romney could not name one, not one.Â
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Romney claims that he will lower tax rates for the top income earners, but that their effective rate will not go down period. How? Because he is going to end these loopholes.Â
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But he couldn't name one, not one of the loopholes that he would close for the rich.Â
 @caphillkid I'm watching CNN with Wolfe Blitzer asking some GOP congressman what "rich people" deductions would be eliminated by the Ryan plan...he mentioned "race track operators"...
These guys really ARE out of touch...
 @caphillkid "But he couldn't name one, not one"...
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But that would mean that he would be held to them, wouldn't it?
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That's sorta like his "now" claim that there are parts of ObamaCare that he "likes"...such as the part that requires covering people with preexisting conditions...as long as the person has had "continuous" coverage. And yet when asked to define "continuous", he can't.
And CNN just showed Ryan being asked to name one loophole for the rich, and the look on his face is priceless..."GULP!"...Well, we have a FRAMEWORK! And We will show that to the American People...soon after the election!"...
I miss the times when Presidents actually got in front of a crowd and talked about their platforms. Now it seems all they want to do is go from City to City with their hands out.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Oval Office WAS under Republican control when the economy started to tank, was it not?
 @siegfriedphilip What has obama changed?
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And the Congress, who controls the budget and makes laws, was controlled by the Democrats.Â
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 @JCCBlvu And the Republicans obstructionists  have been in control for 2 years yet you still Blame Obama for all your woes. Â
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Take some personal responsibility already.
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 @Andrew Bush "and shoving teabags down their pants"
Well, better shoving them DOWN their pants, than pulling them OUT of their pants...
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Thanks for the sleepless night!
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.....and don't forget my favorite Obama accomplishment.which is completely emasculating the republican party reducing them to schoolgirls screaming nonsense like he's a Muslim, Kenyan Socialist, Marxist, dictator trying to take their guns and rape their women while making them dress up in costumes carrying misspelled signs and shoving teabags down their pants. Â
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Its amazing what Obama has accomplished in just a few years.Â
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What about a budget and his promise of lowering the deficit not cranking it up? What about Gitmo, what about anything that improved the economy and jobs? Hmm.. When Obama took office in 2009 there were 133.6 million workers at and at the end of July 2012 there are 133.2 million workers. That is a net loss of jobs.   So again, has he done anything helpful?
 @Nitroxman "So what happened in the first two years?"
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Quite a bit, actually:
"Measured in sheer legislative tonnage, what Obama got done in his first two years is stunning. Health care reform. The takeover and turnaround of the auto industry. The biggest economic stimulus in history. Sweeping new regulations of Wall Street. A tough new set of consumer protections on the credit card industry. A vast expansion of national service. Net neutrality. The greatest increase in wilderness protection in fifteen years. A revolutionary reform to student aid. Signing the New START treaty with Russia. The ending of âdonât ask, donât tell.â"
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/march_april_2012/features/the_incomplete_greatness_of_ba035754.php
 @JCCBlvu  @Andrew Nope, it's the TP Congress that only write "budgets" they KNOW won't pass the smell test...
 @Andrew Bush  @JCCBlvu Republicans obstructionists- Yes thankfully they stopped a couple of obama's stupid goberment union worker bills.
 @Andrew Bush  @JCCBlvu Yep because the demorats never blame anything on Bush, never.
So what happened in the first two years? How about the Senate? The Republicans must be soo powerful to have such control when they are in the minority. What a weak president Obama must be.
@Andrew Bush The last budget proposal by Obama was voted down 97-0 in the Senate. Guess what, that's not all republicans! He can't even get his own party to vote for his budget.
 @JCCBlvu Nope.  Its Republicans who have blocked all bills creating more filibusters than any other time in American history.
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@Andrew Bush It's the Harry Reid controlled Senate that won't pass a budget.Â
 @siegfriedphilip Shhh...we aren't supposed to bring THAT up...it gives the republicans gas...
 @OrcasThunder  @siegfriedphilip LOL. Thanks for the chuckle.
 @Darn it!  @siegfriedphilip Always glad to provide - especially at the expense of right wingers...
Need I remind people that it was the democrats that were able to do something the republicans couldn't...rid the world of Osama Bin Laden
What about all the intel and work done under the Bush administration, don't forget about all the leg work that was put in prior to this administration. We have to blame Bush for this as well. Cannot be a cherry picker. Bush is either responsible for everything or he is not.
@siegfriedphilip Using the exact plan that was developed by... wait for it... Bush!
 @JCCBlvu  @siegfriedphilip And if it failed you would be assigning the blame to Bush? I think not. I think the term for that is hypocrite!
 @JCCBlvu Maybe you need a little review on the subject of Pres. Bush and his "plan" to capture Osama Bin Laden. Try reading this: http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/05/03/163155/bush-did-not-catch-bin-laden/?mobile=nc
 @JCCBlvu  @siegfriedphilip I thought you cons didn't want to keep ...wait it...
Bush... in the conversation for this election.
 @CrankyPanky  @Darn it!  @JCCBlvu  @siegfriedphilip "You mean the tax cuts that obama extended?"
Because it was the only way to get other things we needed done...
They are also the tax cuts that Bush sold us on the promise of that money being used by the rich to invest in new jobs...a broken promise that ended up costing us more jobs than we were told it would create.All the rich did was to invest that additional money in other countries.
 @OrcasThunder  @CrankyPanky  @Darn it!  @JCCBlvu  @siegfriedphilip You mean the tax cuts that obama extended?
 @CrankyPanky  @Darn it!  @JCCBlvu  @siegfriedphilip "Bush was twice the president obama will ever be"
In tax cuts for the rich, probably.
In other measures, not a chance.
 @OrcasThunder  @Darn it!  @JCCBlvu  @siegfriedphilip Bush was twice the president obama will ever be.
 @Darn it!  @JCCBlvu  @siegfriedphilip "Bush... in the conversation for this election."
And the Republicans won't even acknowledge that there WAS a "Bush administration" from 2000 to 2008...Trying to talk to them about Bush is like kissing a mirror...
 @JCCBlvu  Show us how Obama used some invisible Bush plan you speak of.
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 @Nitroxman It's called a partial anagram...
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Interesting though, someone going by the name "PuyallupROX" sent me exactly the same post...then as suddenly removed it.
A bit of a Freudian slip, or just too many names to keep track of?
 @OrcasThunder If you rearrange letters sure.  Did you know your name contains dunce? :P
 @Nitroxman Have YOU noticed that your name contains "Nixon"...?
 @Andrew Bush "Poor Bush.  No matter how you look at him he is a loser."
That's gonna give losers a bad name...
"Poor Bush. No matter how you look at him he is a loser."
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Did anyone else notice Andrew's last name? :snicker:
 @OrcasThunder When one President makes the choice not to pursue Bin Laden and Americans had to wait for the Next president to actually give the order to get him you can not give the previous president credit.
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Bush himself decided AND SAID VOCALLY that Bin Laden wasnt a priority. Â
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 @JCCBlvu Would this be the grand plan to trap bin Laden AND the Taliban in caves in the mountains of ToraBora and then bomb the mountains into rubble?
Well, the first part of that plan did work...and then we turned it over to the marvelous Afghan resister's army...and purposely left routes from there into Pakistan open so the bad guys could escape...
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"Andrew, It is very well known that Obama did not change the tactics used or plan developed by the Bush Adminstration"...NOT!
If the "plan" was so good, why did it take so long for it to work?
Andrew, It is very well known that Obama did not change the tactics used or plan developed by the Bush Adminstration to capture and/or kill Bin Laden. His top military official's in the Middle East were, wait for it... Bushes.  Do you think the military's top brasses plan changed when the Obama Administration began. The answer is no.Â