{"id":4215,"date":"2012-08-13T13:19:31","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T18:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/?p=4215"},"modified":"2018-08-16T15:50:54","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T20:50:54","slug":"john-nichols-and-matthew-rothschild-on-paul-ryan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/?p=4215","title":{"rendered":"John Nichols and Matthew Rothschild on Paul Ryan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/\">Democracy Now!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"450\" height=\"253\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uinYyuSNQJE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney names Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin as his vice presidential running mate, we speak with two Wisconsinites about the seven-term congressman&#8217;s record, and how his views are influenced by the controversial philosopher, Ayn Rand. &#8220;This is not necessarily a foolish choice by Romney,&#8221; says John Nichols, political writer for The Nation magazine. &#8220;It is an extreme choice and it does define the national Republican Party toward a place where the Wisconsin Republican Party is \u2014 which is very anti-labor, willing to make deep cuts in education, public services, and frankly, very combative on issues like voter ID and a host of other things that really go to the core question of how successful and how functional our democracy will be.&#8221; Ryan is chairman of the House of Representatives Budget Committee and architect of a controversial budget plan to cut federal spending by more than $5 trillion over the next 10 years. &#8220;Ryan gets a lot of mileage for understanding so-called the budget and economics,&#8221; says Matthew Rothschild, editor and publisher of The Progressive magazine. &#8220;But if you look closely, he doesn&#8217;t really get it.&#8221; Democrats argue Ryan&#8217;s planned Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security reform would essentially dismantle key components of the social safety net.<\/p>\n<p>Part Two after the jump.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"450\" height=\"253\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9pw1VkL6OJY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Democracy Now! As Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney names Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin as his vice presidential running mate, we speak with two Wisconsinites about the seven-term congressman&#8217;s record, and how his views are influenced by the controversial philosopher, Ayn Rand. &#8220;This is not necessarily a foolish choice by Romney,&#8221; says John Nichols, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[79],"tags":[577,1407,5,888,1408,1078,742],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4215"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4215"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4217,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4215\/revisions\/4217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}