Ryan: I Scare The Ever-Loving Shit Out Of You, Don't I?

Sometimes the Onion hits a bulls-eye.

PAUL D. RYAN is the most articulate and intellectually imposing Republican of the moment, but that doesn’t alter the fact that this earnest congressman from Wisconsin is preaching the same empty conservative sermon.

Thirty years of Republican apostasy — a once grand party’s embrace of the welfare state, the warfare state and the Wall Street-coddling bailout state — have crippled the engines of capitalism and buried us in debt. Mr. Ryan’s sonorous campaign rhetoric about shrinking Big Government and giving tax cuts to “job creators” (read: the top 2 percent) will do nothing to reverse the nation’s economic decline and arrest its fiscal collapse.

Like his new boss, Mr. Ryan has no serious plan to create jobs. America has some of the highest labor costs in the world, and saddles workers and businesses with $1 trillion per year in job-destroying payroll taxes. We need a national sales tax — a consumption tax, like the dreaded but efficient value-added tax — but Mr. Romney and Mr. Ryan don’t have the gumption to support it.

The Ryan Plan boils down to a fetish for cutting the top marginal income-tax rate for “job creators” — i.e. the superwealthy — to 25 percent and paying for it with an as-yet-undisclosed plan to broaden the tax base.

In short, Mr. Ryan’s plan is devoid of credible math or hard policy choices. And it couldn’t pass even if Republicans were to take the presidency and both houses of Congress. Mr. Romney and Mr. Ryan have no plan to take on Wall Street, the Fed, the military-industrial complex, social insurance or the nation’s fiscal calamity and no plan to revive capitalist prosperity — just empty sermons.

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Bring it on.


The country burns either way.
One can only fear something in which they have a stake, and they can only have a stake in something in which they expect the possibility of a different outcome.

Wrong answer.

So he's what? A beefcake version of Sarah Palin?

From what I've read, he is a fitness buff.

So's Vladimir Putin.

Yeah, really looks like a fitness buff.

Shoulda read the link, Dicky....

Ever notice how Republicans try to brush off every criticism with "you're just scared they might win," as though that somehow makes the criticism invalid?

Speaking of the Onion hitting it on the head...

Your fear is palpable.

Res ipsa loquitur.

My problem is Ryan isn't even a fiscal conservative which is the only type of conservative I really respect. Fiscal conservatives worry about balancing the budget and eliminating needless spending yet Ryan wants yet more pork barrel spending for military contractors (mainly because they give so many kick backs to Congressmen like him) and his proposed tax cuts would create trillions of additional deficit spending.

Hell, he sold his proposal as a way to balance the budget but it does do that for a full 30 years and that is only if you believe no one in Congress would ever spend an additional penny for a full three decades. The guy just isn't a fiscal conservative so that just leaves his religious lunacy like outlawing birth control and having the government tell people what they can do in their own bedrooms. No, thank you.

So, Storm likes Ryan? That makes Ryan even more of an asshole. (Even if he doesn't know Storm.)

He does P90X.

So, he's gay then?

I do so look forward to the vice presidential debates. Ryan will indeed mop the floor with Biden.

Out of the crop of candidates to choose as a running mate, Mittens chose wisely.

And Obama has Biden, who makes Dan Quayle feel like he's in Mensa.

Two problems:

1. Fairytale or not, at least those jokers have got a budget. The incumbents have been coasting on a combination of no-limit credit card in our name and, "Hey, LOOK OVER THERE!!!" for 3 years. That's done. Even if that means electing Bert and fuckin' Ernie, that's done. And it increasingly does look like that's what it's going to take.

2. Same shit, different letter at the end of the name. So vote Ron Paul. Or Gary Johnson, either one. I see the argument all the time of, "Mehhhhh! Voting for a third party is a wasted vote! Mehhhhh!"

Fucking bullshit. If enough of us have had enough of them, those are not wasted votes -- what they are is an entirely new paradigm. Even if 85% of the vote goes to green/libertarian/Whovian/Browncoat mishmash, only 15% gets split between Crooks(R) and Thieves(D). And it's time -- it's fucking time for both those parties to panic.

That's right, fuckers -- you want your money? Do ya? You want power? It's all getting dialed back! You want a little sip, still?

Then get down on your knees and kiss the peoples' ass, bitches.

It's time we fuckin' remind 'em, and it's either by voting 3rd party or by hoisting the black flag and executing them in the streets.

Y'all g'head and pick, I ain't finicky about which route it takes.

He's not a real fiscal conservative, and chances are it will be more of the same old, but there is also a chance that he can push through his fiscal reform ideas.























Ah hell, who am I kidding. They all suck.

(Basically, yeah, it's just more puppet theatre -- but it's pretty good puppet theatre, this time around -- there is at least that.)

Condoleezza Rice was the only VP consideration with any name recognition. Paul Ryan can't even put Wisconsin in the Romney column.

He's somewhere in that twilight zone before you reach the Rep Aaron Schock-------Vladimir Putin zone

The Onion's got this one spot on, and I don't even like the guy.

Ryan's announcement didn't move Mitt's polling numbers one iota. He's polling exactly the same as he was before.
http://www.latimes.com/news/politic...-give-romney-a-bounce-20120815,0,665142.story

Most of America said 'who?'. Or mistook him for Rand Paul.

You guys are just looking at the echo chamber. He credits Ayn Rand for the reason he joined politics. This is what I want, being a fiscal conservative myself, so the moderates and lefties must be shitting their pants.

When in reality, it didn't even increase the polling numbers for Conservatives who were going to vote for the ticket based on conservative principles. Hell, the guy voted for TARP, Medicare Part D, and the Auto Bailouts.

Yeah.

Absolutely terrifying. LOL.

And then tried to backpedal away from that, and deny it, even though they've got him on tape saying it.

Integrity!!!!!!!