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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNYT editorial slams Romney and his embrace of Ryan
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Mr. Ryans Cramped Vision
Mitt Romneys safe and squishy campaign just took on a much harder edge. A candidate of no details Ill cut the budget but no need to explain just how has named a vice-presidential running mate, Paul Ryan, whose vision is filled with endless columns of minus signs. Voters will now be able to see with painful clarity just what the Republican Party has in store for them.
As House Budget Committee chairman, Mr. Ryan has drawn a blueprint of a government that will be absent when people need it the most...More than three-fifths of the cuts proposed by Mr. Ryan, and eagerly accepted by the Tea Party-driven House, come from programs for low-income Americans. That means billions of dollars lost for job training for the displaced, Pell grants for students and food stamps for the hungry. These cuts are so severe that the nations Catholic bishops raised their voices in protest at the shredding of the nations moral obligations.
Mr. Ryans budget will hurt hungry children, poor families, vulnerable seniors and workers who cannot find employment, the bishops wrote in an April letter to the House. These cuts are unjustified and wrong.
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Mr. Romney had already praised the Ryan budget as excellent work, but until Saturday the deliberate ambiguity of his own plans gave him a little room for distance, an opportunity to sketch out a more humane vision of governments role. By putting Mr. Ryans callousness on his ticket, he may have lost that chance.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/11/opinion/paul-ryans-cramped-vision.html
Mr. Ryans Cramped Vision
Mitt Romneys safe and squishy campaign just took on a much harder edge. A candidate of no details Ill cut the budget but no need to explain just how has named a vice-presidential running mate, Paul Ryan, whose vision is filled with endless columns of minus signs. Voters will now be able to see with painful clarity just what the Republican Party has in store for them.
As House Budget Committee chairman, Mr. Ryan has drawn a blueprint of a government that will be absent when people need it the most...More than three-fifths of the cuts proposed by Mr. Ryan, and eagerly accepted by the Tea Party-driven House, come from programs for low-income Americans. That means billions of dollars lost for job training for the displaced, Pell grants for students and food stamps for the hungry. These cuts are so severe that the nations Catholic bishops raised their voices in protest at the shredding of the nations moral obligations.
Mr. Ryans budget will hurt hungry children, poor families, vulnerable seniors and workers who cannot find employment, the bishops wrote in an April letter to the House. These cuts are unjustified and wrong.
<...>
Mr. Romney had already praised the Ryan budget as excellent work, but until Saturday the deliberate ambiguity of his own plans gave him a little room for distance, an opportunity to sketch out a more humane vision of governments role. By putting Mr. Ryans callousness on his ticket, he may have lost that chance.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/11/opinion/paul-ryans-cramped-vision.html
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NYT editorial slams Romney and his embrace of Ryan (Original Post)
ProSense
Aug 2012
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These same Catholic bishops will line up to support him in November though.
Ruby the Liberal
Aug 2012
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Viva_Daddy
(785 posts)1. Yes, the difference between the NYT and the WSJ couldn't be clearer.
Now maybe this Presidential campaign and all the rest of the campaigns will finally focus on the very real differences in ideology and policy between Democrats and Republicans.
BumRushDaShow
(129,636 posts)2. K&R
And from the editorial board too.
Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)3. These same Catholic bishops will line up to support him in November though.
They will outweigh the social contract with their anti-abortion stance. Pro-life, right up to birth, then you're on your own.
Freddie
(9,275 posts)5. I'm afraid so
Zygotes take precedence over humans in the end.
Marzupialis
(398 posts)4. Biden will eat Ryan for lunch in the debate
Book it.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)6. Agree. n/t