There Could Be No Greater Repudiation of Ryan Than Hurricane Isaac

[jsmirman]

This won't be a long post.

It's simple: look at all the wonderful images of rescues going on all around the Northern Gulf Coast.

I've been watching New Orleans TV for a number of hours and what you see is a most welcome sight: government doing its job.

The contrast between Ryan's "I've got mine and fuck you" speech that we will all be treated to tonight and the image of people and government employees working together to make a terrible situation less terrible could not be more clear.

Hurricane Isaac and the role of government actually functioning as it should reveals Ayn Rand to be a creepy, witless moron.

I reject Ayn Rand's "philosophy," and I reject selfishness and human isolationism.

You don't look to make political hay out of natural disasters, and that's not what I'm doing. I'm making hay out of the response, out of the powerful images of human beings working to help each other.

As I often say: "A Republicans is someone who has yet to meet with unexpected misfortune."

[notadmblnd]

1. I don't know if it is the Daily Show or Stephen Colbert

but the author of a new book about Ayn Rand will be on tonight. should be interesting.

[David Zephyr]

2. The anti-government jackass Governor of Louisiana is demanding more government help.

K&R.

[jsmirman]

3. Cognitive dissonance is like a two-inch hurdle for them

at least Jindal does seem to be doing a good job in his role in LA.

He's been informative and had command of the details.

[Poiuyt]

4. I think Hurricane Isaac is proof that God hates Republicans

You know that's what Pat Robertson would be saying if it were the Democratic convention that was being disturbed

[jsmirman]

5. But I'm not looking for anything like that. No need to get mystical about it

this is just people helping people and government serving the people.

It's the reality here that destroys Ryan/Randism.

[Nonanonymous]

6. err

It's the reality of the national debt that is going to sneak up on you, then we'll all become libertarians, or fascists.

[jsmirman]

7. What?

[highplainsdem]

8. ""A Republicans is someone who has yet to meet with unexpected misfortune." Exactly.

And yes, we should be making political hay out of Republican politicians' uncaring responses to disasters.

I've been trying to find exact quotes from Ryan, especially on video, about disaster relief, showing a reluctance to pay for it. Ideally something as damning as Romney's comments on disaster relief from June of 2011, which I posted earlier this morning.

So far all I've got is the recommendation from his budget committee, calling for all disaster relief to "be fully offset within the discretionary levels provided in this resolution."

http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/appropriations/226105-gop-appropriators-ignore-ryan-on-disaster-spending

[jsmirman]

9. On a macro level, Ayn Rand says "be self-reliant"

how the fuck self-reliant can you be when you're trapped thanks to rising waters?

I say, "love thy neighbor."

Interestingly, that also translates into, "fuck Ayn Rand."