Intro: "Paul Ryan's speech Wednesday night may have accomplished one good thing: It finally may have dispelled the myth that he is a Serious, Honest Conservative. Indeed, Mr. Ryan's brazen dishonesty left even his critics breathless."
Portrait, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, 06/15/09. (photo: Fred R. Conrad/NYT)
The Medicare Killers
31 August 12
Paul Ryan's speech Wednesday night may have accomplished one good thing: It finally may have dispelled the myth that he is a Serious, Honest Conservative. Indeed, Mr. Ryan's brazen dishonesty left even his critics breathless.
Some of his fibs were trivial but telling, like his suggestion that President Obama is responsible for a closed auto plant in his hometown, even though the plant closed before Mr. Obama took office. Others were infuriating, like his sanctimonious declaration that “the truest measure of any society is how it treats those who cannot defend or care for themselves.” This from a man proposing savage cuts in Medicaid, which would cause tens of millions of vulnerable Americans to lose health coverage.
And Mr. Ryan - who has proposed $4.3 trillion in tax cuts over the next decade, versus only about $1.7 trillion in specific spending cuts - is still posing as a deficit hawk.
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DO VOTE, vote like your livelihood depends on it, as it certainly does.
We cannot cure Stupid, but we don't need to vote for them.
WHY, ARE YOU KIDDING!
Obama told the Republicans that they can come for the ride but they have to sit in the back!
For two years Obama stated that "elections have consequences" and did not meet with the Republican leadership until the Dems got CRUSHED in the mid term elections!
Obama is NOT a LEADER and that is why he can't even get the Dems to vote for his idiotic budgets!
Wake up he is worse than Carter and he sucked big time!
So the president didn't meet with the minority party from both houses? That defines a lack of leadership. Does the definition of leadership now require you to capitulate to your opponents?
Over the past year especially, President Obama has moved decisively to implement as almost as much as possible, after realizing that the strong leadership of Speaker Boehner and his ability to keep meant absolutely nothing. At least when President Obama said he had a deal, he could count on the votes to go along.
And yes, elections do have consequences. When you lose you don't go sulk in the corner and take the ball with you. The Republican party has acted like a bunch of cry-baby sore losers and that is a fact.
Grow up!
With that huge of a majority all he had to do was to convince his own Quoting Onterryo:
NICE TRY!
Arlen Sphincter switched party's in April so they had 60 seats for most of the first two years once Franken joined in July!
The "best" part is that the Republicans filibustered Obama jobs bills blocking them from even being debated. But then they turn around don't introduce 1 single jobs bill, reintroduce a bill to repeal the ACH, and multiple 1950's style ant-abortion bills then claim that the President has not done anything to try and create jobs.
And since a basic keystone of the right wing philosophy is Follow-the-Lead er, there is no way that any of the republicans was going to jump ship and vote with the Democrats.
Long after it was obvious to everyone else that the republicans had absolutely no intention of doing anything but obstructing any policy that might make the economy better, Obama kept trying to talk with them. It got to the point that even centrists realized that the republicans were quite willing to sacrifice the well-being of the country for their own personal power games. Anyone who claims that Obama didn't meet with republican leadership during his first two years is suffering from an incurable pants-on-fire syndrome.
America should WAKE up YouTube George Carlin's "American Dream" and KNOW the man was a sage and what he said could come true...ALL of it!
That is the whole reason Ryan was picked. We are the nation where someone honestly said "Keep your Government Hands Off My Medicare!". Americans are uninformed sheep on even the simplest of issues, and stuff like our Byzantine healthcare systems are far beyond the ability of most Americans to comprehend. So the lies that the GOP is spewing on this have found very fertile ground. Our MSM isn't going to be successful in educating our public, even if they wanted to, because our public doesn't have an attention span longer than a 10 second sound-bite. Can't get much information and truth across in that 10 seconds...but you can easily tell a lie in 10 seconds.
YES! The hard decisions MUST be made, even if it means not peddling your vote in Congress to the highest bidders.
The sad thing is even they will not be able to afford to live in the world they now seek to destroy.
These are Chickens for Col. Sanders who are insisting that we sacrafice your lives for the wealthy. I can't look at a Republican anymore.
Part of why he was Mitt-picked: turds of a feather. HOWEVER,
since THEY KNOW they were providing nifty Video for Obama-Dems, & nifty-shifty video is All he'll have, WHAT were they up to? Seriously. Those kind of lies are historically reserved for "video camera" free stops in Po'Dumb, Kansas. Are they experimenting with what they can get away with? Debate prep?
But, apply the rule that whatever they say the Dems are doing, is actually what they are up to. Hide their secret plans in plain sight.
Like Romney, he is a wolf trying to hide in lamb's skins. He and Romney are owned and operated by the big money and they would sell the whole country out to support their 1% backers. We've been watching the GOP Congress doing the same for years.
Americans need to see this and vote for a government and not a plutocracy they would create.
I am referring to the Democrats I converse with in this southern city.
They certainly are of a moderate to coservative stripe and my intuitive sense is telling me to be wary..very wary.
I sniffed a bit of turncoatism-the se southern Democrats I know can be easily swayed by the smooth talking Repugs. These folks are not as political as us "Readers", however, I am referring to folks who are traditionally Democrat due to the nature of their profession.
Perhaps I have this concerned intuition because I reside in the South. I do not know if others sense this disappointment in Obama that is obvious in my world. These folks might not vote. Or these southern "moderate" Dems might push that "safe" Caucasion ticket in the privacy of the voting booth.
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