Saw them in the early 90s at The National in DC – maybe The Replacements rocked it harder, but I never enjoyed a rock show more:

Doesn’t compare to being a homophobic bully, but Paul Ryan’s high school classmates had his number.

[via @RyanLizza]

Lord Saletan: 

Ryan refutes the Democratic Party’s bogus arguments. He knows that our domestic spending trajectory is unsustainable and that liberals who fail to get it under control are leading their constituents over a cliff, just like in Europe. Eventually, you can’t borrow enough money to make good on your promises, and everyone’s screwed. Ryan understands that the longer we ignore the debt crisis and postpone serious budget cuts—the liberal equivalent of denying global warming—the more painful the reckoning will be. There’s nothing compassionate about that kind of irresponsibility.

Ryan voted for expensive prescription drug coverage, the unfunded Iraq War, and Bush’s ruinous tax cuts for the wealthy. But he’s a real fiscal conservative! Just ask William Saletan, who has been absolutely right about everything!

Romney’s VP pick is Paul Ryan, sources say [LAT]

“Our campaign would be — helped immensely if we had an agreement between both campaigns that we were only going to talk about issues and that attacks based upon — business or family or taxes or things of that nature.”

—Mitt Romney, heroically attempting to find a sentence and conveniently forgetting all his race-baiting talk about Obama being “foreign”.

[NBC, via TPM]

RNC Chairman Reince Priebus, this morning:

“I have been from the very moment very clear as far as where I stand on [birthers]. It’s just as much of a distraction as it is for people to ask for more and more tax returns and all of these other issues.”

Insanely wealthy Mitt backer Jon Huntsman Sr., this afternoon:

“I feel very badly that Mitt won’t release his taxes and won’t be fair with the American people.”

Well, then! Glad that’s settled!