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Remember when Pres. Obama Peeled Paul Ryan Apart?
Remember when Pres. Obama Peeled Paul Ryan Apart?
by zizi
Long before their notable public sparring during the "Massacre in Baltimore" when Pres. Obama laid to waste the entire House Republican caucus at their Jan 29, 2010 retreat until now, Paul Ryan fancied himself the conservative star who will "take down" President Obama. He was one of those present at the infamous meeting that took place the night of President Obama's Inauguration where they decided to totally obstruct the incoming president. Ryan's entire conduct since then, evidenced in his voting "NO" on every single bill regardless of content, underscores his scorched earth ideological agenda.
Freudian slip or not, when Romney introduced Ryan yesterday as "the next President of the United States", it symbolized for all intents and purposes a palace coup, the completion of the hostile takeover of the Republican Party. The hard right thinks the stars are NOW aligned perfectly in their favor to spring the ultimate coup d'etat on our democracy using the perversion of the democratic process itself to dismantle our commonweal as we know it. As the Kochs' golden young gun groomed to deliver the extremely cruel Bircher ideological agenda with slick gelled hair, Ryan's paymasters think he's ideally suited for a Cheneyesque catbird's seat keeping tabs on a nervous GOP congress while also muzzling ceremonial head-of-state Romney.
At this point, Paul Ryan's inflated sense of self comes from how he thinks he can leverage the status elevation that earlier newsmaking public exchanges with President Obama granted him. So even though he is NOT Pres. Obama's direct counterpart in the race, like the GOP did with Palin, the media narrative will be forced to pitch the Prez in split screen with Ryan. The GOP is counting on those optics to bamboozle the electorate with all manner of subliminal messages. That's the plan...
...Well not so fast. President Obama's campaign and the entire Democratic Party have been chomping at the bit not only to put the Ryan budget under blinding public Klieg lights for all to see the cruel document that it is, but judge the ENTIRE Republican party too. Ryan should know this because we all saw him over and over again these last 3.75 years get a bitter taste of President Obama's smackdown of his and the radical Republican agenda.
Let's take a trip down recent memory lane...
Early on in the Obama presidency, Paul Ryan got his self-importance from the fact that Pres. Obama actually indulged him as a man of some ideas, even if they were ideas the President disagreed with. Ryan re-made himself into a fantasy figure from the elevation he got from the President, even when in FACT he had no record to support the perception that he was a fiscal "wonk," into messianic delusions.
As Chris L. Hayes showed clearly on his program on Aug 11, 2012, the very premise of Ryan's claim to be a "fiscal hawk" is a blatant LIE. Ryan's actual congressional voting record reveals him to be nothing more than run of the mill pork-barrel-gorging, debt bloating reckless, Republican. He voted for GW Bush's 2 unpaid for taxcuts, Iraq war, Medicare Part D, TARP and every Fed $$ he could shovel into his district
Ideas? Pfftt! We all remember the stunt he & Cantor led Republicans to pull in 2009 when they produced a budget that had zero info/pages in it just to upstage the President's budget release. Even as he lacked clout being in the House minority, he was invited to join those televised economic summits that President Obama held in his first year.
Rewatch him spar with Pres. Obama at the Baltimore GOP retreat. on Jan 29, 2010 over cutting Medicare. His segment begins from the 13:21 minute mark:
Baltimore retreat, Jan 29 2010
<...>
The next public Presidential takedown of Ryan happened in in his face on April 13, 2011 at George Washington university, just before Ryan's cruel budget was passed by the incoming GOP House majority. Afterward the speech, Ryan complained bitterly of hurt feelings that Pres. Obama had characterized his budget as neither "serious" nor "courageous".
<...>
Of course following that encounter, Ryan joined congressional GOP to vote down every single initiative of Pres. Obama including bringing us to the brink of debt default. He voted No on the Simpson-Bowles commission, raised tantrums at the debt ceiling negotiations, voted against the payroll tax cut extensions. Ryan has voted against EVERY SINGLE thing that Pres. Obama has proposed
The most recent occasion when Pres. Obama directly took on Ryan's plan, he flat out called it "Social Darwinism" much to the shocked bleating of the corporate media. OMG did he call it that? How dare he?
<...>
So, the TeaGOP and their corporate paymasters know they want to pull a fast one on the American people in order to radically change this country, before America itself gets to the point where it would be demographically and structurally hard to be tricked easily anymore. Theirs is an act of DESPERATION. It is now or never for them. President Obama has their number. They know he has their number.
The bet now is will the American people see through the phony pair of slick hair trying to hoodwink them, see past all the residual prejudices, magical thinking that the interests of an impoverished Middle Class also align with those of the parasitic 1%ers?
- more -
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/12/1119097/-Remember-when-Pres-Obama-Peeled-Paul-Ryan-Apart
by zizi
Long before their notable public sparring during the "Massacre in Baltimore" when Pres. Obama laid to waste the entire House Republican caucus at their Jan 29, 2010 retreat until now, Paul Ryan fancied himself the conservative star who will "take down" President Obama. He was one of those present at the infamous meeting that took place the night of President Obama's Inauguration where they decided to totally obstruct the incoming president. Ryan's entire conduct since then, evidenced in his voting "NO" on every single bill regardless of content, underscores his scorched earth ideological agenda.
Freudian slip or not, when Romney introduced Ryan yesterday as "the next President of the United States", it symbolized for all intents and purposes a palace coup, the completion of the hostile takeover of the Republican Party. The hard right thinks the stars are NOW aligned perfectly in their favor to spring the ultimate coup d'etat on our democracy using the perversion of the democratic process itself to dismantle our commonweal as we know it. As the Kochs' golden young gun groomed to deliver the extremely cruel Bircher ideological agenda with slick gelled hair, Ryan's paymasters think he's ideally suited for a Cheneyesque catbird's seat keeping tabs on a nervous GOP congress while also muzzling ceremonial head-of-state Romney.
At this point, Paul Ryan's inflated sense of self comes from how he thinks he can leverage the status elevation that earlier newsmaking public exchanges with President Obama granted him. So even though he is NOT Pres. Obama's direct counterpart in the race, like the GOP did with Palin, the media narrative will be forced to pitch the Prez in split screen with Ryan. The GOP is counting on those optics to bamboozle the electorate with all manner of subliminal messages. That's the plan...
...Well not so fast. President Obama's campaign and the entire Democratic Party have been chomping at the bit not only to put the Ryan budget under blinding public Klieg lights for all to see the cruel document that it is, but judge the ENTIRE Republican party too. Ryan should know this because we all saw him over and over again these last 3.75 years get a bitter taste of President Obama's smackdown of his and the radical Republican agenda.
Let's take a trip down recent memory lane...
Early on in the Obama presidency, Paul Ryan got his self-importance from the fact that Pres. Obama actually indulged him as a man of some ideas, even if they were ideas the President disagreed with. Ryan re-made himself into a fantasy figure from the elevation he got from the President, even when in FACT he had no record to support the perception that he was a fiscal "wonk," into messianic delusions.
As Chris L. Hayes showed clearly on his program on Aug 11, 2012, the very premise of Ryan's claim to be a "fiscal hawk" is a blatant LIE. Ryan's actual congressional voting record reveals him to be nothing more than run of the mill pork-barrel-gorging, debt bloating reckless, Republican. He voted for GW Bush's 2 unpaid for taxcuts, Iraq war, Medicare Part D, TARP and every Fed $$ he could shovel into his district
Ideas? Pfftt! We all remember the stunt he & Cantor led Republicans to pull in 2009 when they produced a budget that had zero info/pages in it just to upstage the President's budget release. Even as he lacked clout being in the House minority, he was invited to join those televised economic summits that President Obama held in his first year.
Rewatch him spar with Pres. Obama at the Baltimore GOP retreat. on Jan 29, 2010 over cutting Medicare. His segment begins from the 13:21 minute mark:
Baltimore retreat, Jan 29 2010
<...>
The next public Presidential takedown of Ryan happened in in his face on April 13, 2011 at George Washington university, just before Ryan's cruel budget was passed by the incoming GOP House majority. Afterward the speech, Ryan complained bitterly of hurt feelings that Pres. Obama had characterized his budget as neither "serious" nor "courageous".
<...>
Of course following that encounter, Ryan joined congressional GOP to vote down every single initiative of Pres. Obama including bringing us to the brink of debt default. He voted No on the Simpson-Bowles commission, raised tantrums at the debt ceiling negotiations, voted against the payroll tax cut extensions. Ryan has voted against EVERY SINGLE thing that Pres. Obama has proposed
The most recent occasion when Pres. Obama directly took on Ryan's plan, he flat out called it "Social Darwinism" much to the shocked bleating of the corporate media. OMG did he call it that? How dare he?
<...>
So, the TeaGOP and their corporate paymasters know they want to pull a fast one on the American people in order to radically change this country, before America itself gets to the point where it would be demographically and structurally hard to be tricked easily anymore. Theirs is an act of DESPERATION. It is now or never for them. President Obama has their number. They know he has their number.
The bet now is will the American people see through the phony pair of slick hair trying to hoodwink them, see past all the residual prejudices, magical thinking that the interests of an impoverished Middle Class also align with those of the parasitic 1%ers?
- more -
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/12/1119097/-Remember-when-Pres-Obama-Peeled-Paul-Ryan-Apart
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021110727
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