TAIBBI: Ryan, another young, prickish, over-coiffed, anal-retentive deficit Robespierre

[kpete]

Tax Cuts for the Rich on the Backs of the Middle Class; or, Paul Ryan Has Balls
POSTED: April 7, 11:52 AM ET

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/tax-cuts-for-the-rich-on-the-backs-of-the-middle-class-or-paul-ryan-has-balls-20110407#ixzz23RyyU4OK


Paul Ryan, the Republican Party’s latest entrant in the seemingly endless series of young, prickish, over-coiffed, anal-retentive deficit Robespierres they’ve sent to the political center stage in the last decade or so, has come out with his new budget plan. All of these smug little jerks look alike to me – from Ralph Reed to Eric Cantor to Jeb Hensarling to Rand Paul and now to Ryan, they all look like overgrown kids who got nipple-twisted in the halls in high school, worked as Applebee’s shift managers in college, and are now taking revenge on the world as grownups by defunding hospice care and student loans and Sesame Street. They all look like they sleep with their ties on, and keep their feet in dress socks when doing their bi-monthly duty with their wives.

Every few years or so, the Republicans trot out one of these little whippersnappers, who offer proposals to hack away at the federal budget. Each successive whippersnapper inevitably tries, rhetorically, to out-mean the previous one, and their proposals are inevitably couched as the boldest and most ambitious deficit-reduction plans ever seen. Each time, we are told that these plans mark the end of the budgetary reign of terror long ago imposed by the entitlement system begun by FDR and furthered by LBJ.

Never mind that each time the Republicans actually come into power, federal deficit spending explodes and these whippersnappers somehow never get around to touching Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid. The key is that for the many years before that moment of truth, before these buffoons actually get a chance to put their money where their lipless little mouths are, they will stomp their feet and scream about how entitlements are bringing us to the edge of apocalypse.

[Segami]

1. Anal-Retentive Deficit Robespierres..? LOL!!!

[JBoy]

2. That first paragraph was spot-on imagery.

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. Don't hold back, Taibbi...

He sounds a bit het up, doesn't he?
Great phrases...

[Lucy Goosey]

4. Taibbi really has a way with words, doesn't he?

He doesn't leave us wondering how he really feels.

[lunatica]

5. LOL!

"they sleep with their ties on, and keep their feet in dress socks when doing their bi-monthly duty..."

"...lipless little mouths..."

LOL! I love it!

[Fawke Em]

6. I'm still not quite sure how Ryan is a Robespierre, though.

Robespierre ended up being somewhat of a hypocrite for his views on the death penalty, but he firmly sided with the working man and wanted to end the plight of the poor.

Let me rephrase that: yes, Robespierre became despicable in his support of terror during the French Revolution, but he wasn't a suck-up to the 1 percent of his day.

http://www.historytoday.com/marisa-linton/robespierre-and-terror

[whatchamacallit]

10. Yeah, I'm a little confused by Taibbi's use of Robespierre as well

Oh well, no denying Ryan is a POS though.

[Junkdrawer]

13. I see where he's going with that...

The parallels with the French Revolution are eerie...

Power Elites always create their own destructors....

....

But the royalists, instead of realizing the significance of these Jacobins with their dangerous integrity and their dangerous grip upon the imagination of the mob, had the conceit to think they could make tools of them. The time for the replacement of the National Assembly under the new-made constitution by the "Legislative Assembly" was drawing near; and when the Jacobins, with the idea of breaking up the moderates, proposed to make the members of the National Assembly ineligible for the Legislative Assembly, the royalists supported them with great glee, and carried the proposal. They perceived that the Legislative Assembly, so clipped of all experience, must certainly be a politically incompetent body. They would "extract good from the excess of evil," and presently France would fall back helpless into the hands of her legitimate masters. So they thought. And the royalists did more than this. They backed the election of a Jacobin as Mayor of Paris. It was about as clever as if a man brought home a hungry tiger to convince his wife of her need of him. There stood another body ready at hand with which these royalists did not reckon, far better equipped than the court to step in and take the place of an ineffective Legislative Assembly, and that was the strongly Jacobin Commune of Paris installed at the Hotel de Ville.

....

http://www.oldandsold.com/articles32n/history-line-60.shtml

I said to my wife this morning: "You watch, the Left will storm the Bastille, but the Tea Baggers will construct the guillotines..."


http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=1077068

[eppur_se_muova]

7. What's with the kid glove treatment ? Say what you really think. nt

[Cali_Democrat]

8. GREAT piece by Taibbi

Maybe his best yet.

[MoonRiver]

9. Perfect!

[Oregonian]

11. Taibbi in not-so-rare form

Taibbi always supplies the exact juvenile slur I'm looking for to go along with prescient policy analysis. Bravo, again, Matt.

[heaven05]

12. nice

you're being nice. I see him as a member of the 21st centuries new nazi party(TEA PARTY). Only thugs take down and arrest and handcuff a 71 year old gentleman asking a question that concerns all. that photo of him on DU homepage just lacks the little itty-bitty moustache

[IDemo]

14. Taibbi? He sucks!

Wait for it.........

[CanonRay]

15. You need a scorecard with the Young Republican types

gotta love Taibbi.

[polichick]

16. Ha! I love writers who speak the truth in colorful terms!! k&r

[progressivebydesign]

17. Could be the best thing I've read in years.. too much to quote there. n/t

[Skidmore]

18. "...over-coiffed" is a little much for someone who spitcombs his hair after

coloring it with black Kiwi shoe polish.

[bvar22]

19. Easy DURec for Taibbi !

The man has a way with words.

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Love it!




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