Paul Ryan's ascent as VP nominee just made Kristi Noem's life complicated. Follow me here: President Barack Obama, like Noem's challenger, is calling for fast action on the Farm Bill: ...my Administration can't do it alone. Congress needs to do…
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A Facebook friend points me toward this intelligent essay from the Catholic America magazine explaining how budget-slashing Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) gets poverty, the Pope, and the proper role of government egregiously wrong. Rep. Ryan has tried to justify his…
Ignorance is Kristi Noem's greatest strength. If voters remain ignorant of her actual record, they can believe whatever she says about it. If voters look at the facts alongside her cynically deceptive spin, Noem loses to Barth, Varilek, or a…
Congresswoman Kristi Noemeetings is evidently taking her cues from Congressman Paul Ryan from Wisconsin. The man who proposed the Medicare-destroying budget Kristi loves is holding no public town hall meetings during the August recess. Worse, according to Politico, Ryan and…
Meeting your opponents halfway is not an inherently good solution. Rep. Paul Ryan and Intern Kristi Noem are staking out right-wing positions so extreme, toward destructive privatization of vital social functions and abandonment of moral obligations to the old, sick,…
Remember last year when Kristi Noem said she thought privatizing Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security were a good place to start with cutting the federal budget? Remember when she denied she ever said any such thing once pressed on the…
Way back during the 2010 primary, in a live online chat with Kevin Woster on Mount Blogmore, candidate Kristi Noem cited her strong support of Congressman Paul Ryan's budget roadmap, a signal Tea-flavored Republicans would reasonably read as a signal…