Rino Paul Ryan

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Ryan is a RINO

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Many Republicans are understandably pleased by Mitt Romney’s selection of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as a running mate. Unlike Marco Rubio, Ryan is a natural-born American citizen and actually eligible for the office. Unlike Tim Pawlenty, he is not a spineless coward with all the charisma of fat-free vanilla yogurt. And unlike Robert Portman, he is not a member of the extended Bush family. He is intelligent. And unlike the current presidential administration, he’s capable of actually putting a budget together, which is a talent that should not go unremarked considering that the country has been operating without one for more than three years now.

The problem is that Paul Ryan is not part of the solution. In fact, Paul Ryan is one of the politicians who is even more responsible for the current economic crisis than Barack Obama. Consider his voting record:

YES on TARP
YES on Economic Stimulus Act of 2008
YES on $15 billion bailout for GM and Chrysler.
YES on $192 billion additional anti-recession stimulus spending.
YES on prescription drug benefit for Medicare recipients
YES on extending unemployment benefits from 39 weeks to 59 weeks
YES on Head Start Act
YES on No Child Left Behind Act
YES on making the PATRIOT Act permanent
YES on allowing electronic surveillance without a warrant
YES on emergency $78 billion for war in Iraq & Afghanistan

Ryan may even be worse than Obama, because unlike Obama he actually understands the various financial numbers involved. He knows that the country cannot afford the level of spending in his budget plans. But because he subscribes to the same Neo-Keynesian economic dogma that fails to account for debt as a part of its conceptual model, he does not have the ability to present any solution that differs from those of Obama, Krugman and Hoover. Consider how he defends his decision to vote for TARP and the bank bailouts in 2008.

“I believe we were on the cusp of a deflationary spiral which would have created a Depression. I think that’s probably pretty likely. If we would have allowed that to happen, I think we would have had a big government agenda sweeping through this country so fast that we wouldn’t have recovered from it. So in order to prevent a Depression and a complete evisceration of the free market system we have, I think it was necessary.”

This is precisely the reasoning that Keynes used to justify his support for massive government intervention in the economy in the 1930s. Like Ryan, he recommended a big government in order to prevent an even bigger government, and unwittingly provided the basis for a much larger government than he had ever envisioned. What Ryan fails to recognize is that the doubling of U.S. federal debt that he has supported did not prevent a depression; it merely mitigated its obvious effects for four years while ensuring that the deflationary spiral will be all the more vicious when the spending finally slows.

The sad reality is that Romney and Ryan have no intention of rolling back Obama’s policies, but rather refining them. Ryan may look attractive to conservatives and Republicans, but he should not because he is neither a conservative nor a genuine Republican. He is nothing more than another big-government Republican of the sort that helped create the very mess that the Republican grassroots are hoping he will solve.

http://www.wnd.com/2012/08/ryan-is-a-rino/

 

[KingOrfeo]

Unlike Marco Rubio, Ryan is a natural-born American citizen and actually eligible for the office.

Where's that bullshit coming from!? Rubio was born in Miami. Does the WND crowd really think you can't be a "natural-born American citizen" if your last name ends in a vowel?! Somebody tell Sheriff Arpaio!

 

[bronzeage]

Where's that bullshit coming from!? Rubio was born in Miami. Does the WND crowd really think you can't be a "natural-born American citizen" if your last name ends in a vowel?! Somebody tell Sheriff Arpaio!

Republicans eat their young.

 

[KRCummings]

So it was wrong to vote for Bush stuff, too?

 

[Sean Renaud]

Is there an official count on how many "real" Republicans are in government? I mean are we down to Chris Christie, Scott Walker, Michelle Bachmann, Rick Santorum and. . .mother fuck. Who else qualifies?!

 

[KRCummings]

Is there an official count on how many "real" Republicans are in government? I mean are we down to Chris Christie, Scott Walker, Michelle Bachmann, Rick Santorum and. . .mother fuck. Who else qualifies?!

I thought W did but according to this only RINO's voted his way.

 

[Liar]

Is there an official count on how many "real" Republicans are in government? I mean are we down to Chris Christie, Scott Walker, Michelle Bachmann, Rick Santorum and. . .mother fuck. Who else qualifies?!

Mother Fuck is an independent.

 

[Sean Renaud]

No really, Republicans, Conservatives tell who's left cus it sure as fuck is starting sound like a Conservative is something like a four leafed clover. We've been told such things exist and we can spend hours looking for them but they ain't real.

 

[Wrong Element]

Where's that bullshit coming from!? Rubio was born in Miami. Does the WND crowd really think you can't be a "natural-born American citizen" if your last name ends in a vowel?! Somebody tell Sheriff Arpaio!

I don't claim to know all the loonie buzzwords, but I think that's a reference to the citizenship status of Rubio's parents at the time of his birth. Which as you said, is completely irrelevant since he was born in the United States himself.

The OP is true to the extent that Ryan, like the majority of his GOP colleagues, is only a deficit hawk when it comes to opposing Democratic presidents. (It didn't even mention the Bush tax cuts, which were the reason we lost the surplus to begin with.)

 

[eyer]

Sunday, 12 August 2012 00:00

Veep Pick Paul Ryan Is No Conservative

Written by Jack Kenny

No sooner had Mitt Romney's choice of Paul Ryan as his running mate become known than the world of punditry was abuzz with talk of "Ryanmania." Since mania is by definition an excessive or unreasonable enthusiasm, the label may be regarded as an understatement.For while the seven-term Republican congressman from Wisconsin and chairman of the House Budget Committee is not yet a household name across America, he does generate excitement within the "conservative movement," an excitement and enthusiasm that suggests the talking heads at Fox News and the dot.com warriors at The Weekly Standard have no more sense of conservative, constitutional government than the cheering chanting crowd of Republican partisans who greeted the vice presidential hopeful in Norfolk, Virginia, Saturday morning.

Like him or not, the one thing politically aware Americans are supposed to know about Paul Ryan is that he is a fiscal conservative, a bold budget hawk. He is, after all, the prime author of the House budget plan (titled "the Path to Prosperity") to repeal the Obama health insurance program ("ObamaCare"), turn the Medicaid program for low-income Americans over to the states and create a private insurance option for Medicare beneficiaries starting in 2023. The plan would also turn food stamps and other federal programs for the poor into block grants to the states, with limits on the growth of those programs. If Republican voters have any doubts about Ryan's commitment to budget austerity, they need only hear the Democrats' outcry that Ryan's "Path to Prosperity" will be a road to the poorhouse for elderly and low-income Americans.

But on the other side of the ledger, Ryan's voting record shows a robust support of big-spending programs to enlarge the role of the federal government, especially when they are promoted by a Republican in the White House. Ryan voted for all of the big-ticket, budget-busting items of the administration of President George W. Bush, including the No Child Left Behind Act and the prescription drug benefit known as Medicare Part D, often described as the largest expansion of the welfare state since Lyndon Johnson's Great Society. Ryan voted to create the new Department of Homeland Security, including the Transportation Security Administration that has harassed air travelers, while making aircraft safe from shoes, belt buckles and grandma's knitting needles. He voted for the PATRIOT Act, giving government enhanced powers for warrantless snooping into the lives of American citizens as well as foreign nationals. Ryan voted for the Troubled Assets Relief Program that bailed out the "too big to fail" financial institutions and inspired the Tea Party rebellion against big government and "crony capitalism." He backed the auto bailout that turned GM into "Government Motors."

And while conservatives generally like to leave wars and military spending off the list of costly "big government" programs, Ryan's record on that front is also troubling. Like Romney, Ryan has no foreign policy credentials and no record of military service to point to in the election campaign. And like Romney, Ryan swallowed whole the Bush-Cheney line on Iraq and supported the decision to invade and occupy that country in a needless war that cost more than 4,000 American and hundreds of thousands Iraqi lives and has added roughly a trillion dollars to our soaring national debt. Ryan's budget calls for no reduction in military spending, despite the continued presence of U.S. troops in some 130 countries around the world, most of which have no bearing on our own national security.

Even more troubling is Ryan's vote last December in favor of the National Defense Authorization Act. The legislation included a provision authorizing the President to use the military to arrest suspected terrorists, including American citizens apprehended in the United States, and hold them indefinitely, without charges and without trial, in clear violation of due process rights guaranteed by the Constitution. This year Ryan voted against an amendment to remove that provision from the law.

Ryan did vote against reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank, which grants loans and loan guarantees to foreign governments and businesses for the purchase of U.S. products. But his vote last year for the $915 billion Omnibus Appropriations Bill for 2012 went to support further spending on housing, education, foreign aid, and other programs for which there is no constitutional role for the federal government. On The New American magazine's latest Freedom Index, matching congressional votes with the strictures of the Constitution, Ryan's rating for the 112th Congress to date was an anemic 67 percent.

Paul Ryan is, in short, a typical Bush-era Republican, whose selection as a vice presidential candidate is being trumpeted as a triumph by many of the same Republicans who are doing their best to flush the administration of George W. Bush down the memory hole. Republican candidates almost never invoke the Bush name and the most recent Republican President will not be attending the party's convention in Tampa, where Romney and Ryan are expected to be officially nominated. Chances the name of the 43rd President will be mentioned in rare fleeting reference, if at all. Yet in his choice of running mate, Romney has chosen a loyal Bush Republican and reliable supporter of the programs and policies that made the Bush administration an anathema to genuine conservatives and an embarrassment to the nation.

Finally, the Ryan budget, while including a number of unspecified cuts in entitlement programs, would push overall spending higher than current levels. Despite its optimistic revenue projections, the Congressional Budget Office projects the Ryan plan will lead to a balanced budget by 2040.That suggests a rousing slogan for the Romney-Ryan ticket: "Slightly Less Socialism And A Balanced Budget in 28 Years."

http://thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/12432-veep-pick-paul-ryan-is-no-conservative

 

[fuckwaffle]

I don't claim to know all the loonie buzzwords, but I think that's a reference to the citizenship status of Rubio's parents at the time of his birth. Which as you said, is completely irrelevant since he was born in the United States himself.

The OP is true to the extent that Ryan, like the majority of his GOP colleagues, is only a deficit hawk when it comes to opposing Democratic presidents. (It didn't even mention the Bush tax cuts, which were the reason we lost the surplus to begin with.)

What surplus would that be?

 

[Ham Murabi]

I thought W did but according to this only RINO's voted his way.

I don't know if W is considered a RINO, but with his spending record he's certainly not a fiscal conservative.

 

[amicus]

Paul Ryan

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TO: John Cole

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edited to add:

Dear Patriot,

Paul Ryan is a strong conservative leader, and I am proud to have him as my running mate.

He is widely respected for his leadership skills and his intellect, and for his ability to tackle serious issues.

Together, we understand that a limited government and fiscal responsibility will unleash prosperity for all Americans.

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"Limitd government and fiscal responsibility...how fucking droll is that?

Shoot every fuckking libera lprogressive left wing cocksucking but fucking son of a bitch you can find!

Now that I could donate to. heh

ami

 

[koalabear]

What surplus would that be?

The money stolen from Social Security.

 

[KingOrfeo]

http://thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/12432-veep-pick-paul-ryan-is-no-conservative

Dude, that's an outlet of the John Birch Society. Just how low are you prepared to sink?!

 

[mercury14]

YES on TARP
YES on Economic Stimulus Act of 2008
YES on $15 billion bailout for GM and Chrysler.
YES on $192 billion additional anti-recession stimulus spending.
YES on prescription drug benefit for Medicare recipients
YES on extending unemployment benefits from 39 weeks to 59 weeks
YES on Head Start Act
YES on No Child Left Behind Act
YES on making the PATRIOT Act permanent
YES on allowing electronic surveillance without a warrant
YES on emergency $78 billion for war in Iraq & Afghanistanhttp://www.wnd.com/2012/08/ryan-is-a-rino/

Romney would have voted for all these things as well...