Ryan has continued to push the line of attack this week.
Cutter also said that unlike the Romney campaign, "we care about fact checks."
But they defended an attack by Biden on Romney as the recipient of federal bailout that costs taxpayers - a claim that the Romney campaign quickly noted the Washington Post's fact-checker rejected.
The Obama campaign was undeterred.
"He went to the federal government, the FDIC, for a bailout," LaBolt said. When Tapper pushed on the question of taxpayers being on the hook - the FDIC is funded by insurance premiums on bank deposits - Cutter said that the FDIC is ultimately taxpayer guaranteed.
The root of the charge is a Rolling Stone article, which reported a Romney consulting firm managed to avoid paying back $10 million in loans it owed to a bank the FDIC had taken over.
A man from Kentucky attends a Tea Party Patriots rally on the West Front of the Capitol to protest the IRS' targeting of conservative political groups.
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