We finally found the footage of Paul Ryan (R-WI) begging his colleagues to vote for TARP. When you watch, you'll see exactly why this video isn't highlighted on his Youtube page.
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) on the House floor during the debate over TARP - Sept. 29, 2008
Stellar acts like The Flaming Lips combined with crowd-surfing bubbles made for a magical night aboard the USS Intrepid.
All that stood between Stephen Colbert and his fans Friday night was a few millimeters of plastic as he rolled across the audience inside a giant plastic space bubble, trusting his diehard fans to keep him from cascading off the USS Intrepid into New York's Hudson river.
It was The Colbert Report host's final performance at Pepsi Presents StePhest Colbchella '012: Rocktaugustfest, a musical festival Colbert presented as a fight against the "half-naked patchouli-soaked white-guy-dreadlock festivals" like Coachella and Bonnaroo that occur each summer.
The controversial law enforcement chief of Maricopa County, Ariz., soon will hear a federal judge’s ruling in a class-action lawsuit charging a pattern of racial profiling in the targeting and detention of Latino drivers and passengers during traffic stops. Closing arguments were heard this week.
Meanwhile, the US Justice Department is proceeding with its broader discrimination case against Sheriff Arpaio, the department he oversees, and Maricopa County itself.
“Latinos in Maricopa County are frequently stopped, detained, and arrested on the basis of race, color, or national origin, and Latino prisoners with limited English language skills are denied important constitutional protections,” the Justice Department charges. “As a result of the pattern or practice of unlawful discrimination, Latinos in Maricopa County are systematically denied their constitutional rights; the relationship between MCSO [the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office] and key segments of the c
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Most of us look at that quote and think of “mad” in a fun way. In Republican Land, however, it is the rule of law.
Yes, the wild and wacky world of Alice in Wonderland seems much saner compared to today’s GOP field of crazy, crazier, and craziest. At least in Wonderland you could smoke a drug-laden hookah with a cool caterpillar to calm your frayed nerves and chill the hell out.
But I have to say, I’m a little disappointed that the crazy train to the GOP convention in Tampa, Florida ain’t gonna be as crazy as we had hoped, which I’m sure is a calculated move to make the Republicans seem less lunatic-ish than they really are to the fence-sitting outliers independents.
The Wisconsin Republican and his wife, Janna, both worked on Capitol Hill and have long-standing relationships with several staffers-turned-lobbyists and veteran influence peddlers.
“They’ve got a lot of friends in D.C.,” Gloria Dittus of Story Partners told POLITICO.
Dittus, a veteran downtown strategist who attended their wedding, said she got to know the pair when Janna Ryan worked for Rep. Bill Brewster (D-Okla.). Janna later worked as a lobbyist with PriceWaterhouseCooper’s lobbying arm and Williams & Jensen before leaving Washington, D.C., for Wisconsin.
“They are great people. She is rocket smart and he’s rocket smart. Big brains, small town values,” she said.
The list of the Ryans’ K Street confidants reads like a who’s who of downtowners, including Marc Neuman with Limited; Kent Knutson of Home Depot and his wife Karen, who formerly worked for Vice President Dick Cheney; Missy Edwards of Missy Edwards Strategies; and Sean O’H
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Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney really are two peas in a pod. In September 2011, Ryan had 5 people kicked out and three others arrested at his town hall because he didn’t like their questions.
Last Fall, Paul Ryan adopted a novel approach to avoiding questions that he didn’t want to answer on his budget and the Bush tax cuts. He made his town halls PPV events. Rep. Ryan actually charged people to attend his town halls.
Ryan’s pay wall didn’t stop protesters from attending and asking him questions about how he was going to create jobs and the Bush tax cuts, but when Rep. Ryan didn’t like the questions, he had the questioners removed or in some cases arrested.
Mitt Romney has picked as his running mate 42 year-old Republican Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI), the architect of the GOP budget, which the New York Times has described as “the most extreme budget plan passed by a house of Congress in modern times.” Below are 12 things you should know about Ryan and his policies:
1. Embraces extreme individualism. Ryan heaped praise on Ayn Rand, a 20th-century libertarian novelist best known for her philosophy that centered on the idea that selfishness is “virtue.”
Time after time, Obama's lawyers defending the NDAA's section 1021 affirm our worst fears about its threat to our liberty.
I am one of the lead plaintiffs in the civil lawsuit against the National Defense Authorization Act, which gives the president the power to hold any US citizen anywhere for as long as he wants, without charge or trial.
In a May hearing, Judge Katherine Forrest issued an injunction against it; this week, in a final hearing in New York City, US government lawyers asserted even more extreme powers – the right to disregard entirely the judge and the law. On Monday 6 August, Obama's lawyers filed an appeal to the injunction – a profoundly important development that, as of this writing, has been scarcely reported.
What would have likely been a routine flight out of a Florida airport this weekend ended with a woman being sent to the emergency room after TSA agents insisted on groping a traumatized rape victim in a security pat-down that put her in the hospital.
A user of the online Web forum FlyerTalk.com writes that his wife was admitted to the ER for treatment after agents with the Transportation Security Administration cited an “anomaly” in her bra as a reason to subject her to an intrusive closed-door screening on Sunday at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.
The woman, described by her husband as the victim of brutal rape, was reportedly being transferred to a psychiatric ward for further treatment after what the man says was a “horrific experience.”
It hasn’t even been two weeks since Jonah Lehrer resigned from The New Yorker amidst charges of self-plagiarism and fabricating quotes, but already there’s another media scandal brewing.
The conservative blog Newsbusters noticed a striking similarity between Fareed Zakaria’s new TIME magazine piece on gun control and Jill Lepore’s New Yorker article on guns in America from April.
A TIME spokesperson told TPM the magazine “takes any accusation of plagiarism by any of our journalists very seriously, and we will careful examine the facts before saying anything else on the matter.”
Here are the paragraphs in question. From Zakaria’s piece:
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