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The Straight Story

(48,121 posts)
Sun Aug 4, 2013, 07:36 PM Aug 2013

The GOP flips the script on Obama

Republicans need to make up their minds: Is President Obama a socialist or a corporate stooge?

“The president claims his economic agenda is for the middle class. But it’s actually for the well-connected,” Paul Ryan, the GOP’s 2012 vice presidential nominee, wrote this week in USA Today, rejecting Obama’s latest proposal for a corporate tax cut. “There’s no doubt that it works well for them. But for the rest of us, it’s not working at all.”

Ryan, in his brief commentary, protested that Obama is “interested in tax reform for corporations — but not for families or small business.” He further accused Obama of implementing health-care and regulatory policies that favor big businesses and big banks.

That’s rich.

Ryan, after all, is the guy who just a year ago accused Obama of “sowing social unrest and class resentment,” of supporting “a government-run economy” and of “denigrating people who are successful.” He has charged the president with leading the nation toward “a cradle-to-grave, European-style social welfare state.”

Republican lawmakers seem to think that Americans have short memories and lack Internet connections, for their latest line of attack — that Obama’s health-care and tax policies favor the corporate elite — directly contradicts their previous allegation that Obama was waging “class warfare” with “socialist” policies attacking these very same corporate elites.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-gop-flips-the-script-on-president-obama/2013/08/01/7c51a724-fafa-11e2-9bde-7ddaa186b751_story.html?Post+generic=%3Ftid%3Dsm_twitter_washingtonpost

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The GOP flips the script on Obama (Original Post) The Straight Story Aug 2013 OP
Good Proud Liberal Dem Aug 2013 #1
"Two Fifty Something" is all we need to know about Ryan. nt gulliver Aug 2013 #2
"Republicans need to make up their minds" mindwalker_i Aug 2013 #3
He baffles them.When he does what they want, they attack him The Straight Story Aug 2013 #4
Because......Obama! Proud Liberal Dem Aug 2013 #6
Ryan has a lot of friends right here on DU... Whisp Aug 2013 #5
Where One Extreme Meets The Other... KharmaTrain Aug 2013 #7
Yep. Except he's trying to accomplish something by this accusation. geek tragedy Aug 2013 #9
Republican vs. Corporate Lobbyist PowerToThePeople Aug 2013 #8
He's a corporate stooge and they've always known that. LWolf Aug 2013 #10

mindwalker_i

(4,407 posts)
3. "Republicans need to make up their minds"
Sun Aug 4, 2013, 10:20 PM
Aug 2013

Why? They call him socialist, corporatist, Nazi, and accuse him of being Muslim and over-the-top Christian all in the same breath. Why? Because nobody fucking cares! It doesn't matter what he is, just as long as Republicans are calling him it.

The Straight Story

(48,121 posts)
4. He baffles them.When he does what they want, they attack him
Sun Aug 4, 2013, 10:24 PM
Aug 2013

When he does something that bush did, they attack him.

Basically, they hate and are too stupid to see beyond their hate.

 

Whisp

(24,096 posts)
5. Ryan has a lot of friends right here on DU...
Sun Aug 4, 2013, 10:51 PM
Aug 2013

Ryan, in his brief commentary, protested that Obama is “interested in tax reform for corporations — but not for families or small business.” He further accused Obama of implementing health-care and regulatory policies that favor big businesses and big banks.

Yes, you can be embarrassed, you know who you are. And so do we.

KharmaTrain

(31,706 posts)
7. Where One Extreme Meets The Other...
Mon Aug 5, 2013, 10:22 AM
Aug 2013

...looks like Eddie Munster's illegitimate child stepped through the time/space continuum and ended up aligned with OWS.

 

geek tragedy

(68,868 posts)
9. Yep. Except he's trying to accomplish something by this accusation.
Mon Aug 5, 2013, 10:48 AM
Aug 2013

the Repubs useful idiots on the left are just whiners.

 

PowerToThePeople

(9,610 posts)
8. Republican vs. Corporate Lobbyist
Mon Aug 5, 2013, 10:45 AM
Aug 2013

Paul Ryan: Me sucky-sucky. Me love you too much.

Corporate Lobbyist: Five dollars is all the Koch brothers allow me to spend.

Paul Ryan: Okay. Ten dollar each.

Corporate Lobbyist: What do we get for ten dollars?

Paul Ryan: Every t'ing you want.

Corporate Lobbyist: Everything?

Paul Ryan: Every t'ing.

LWolf

(46,179 posts)
10. He's a corporate stooge and they've always known that.
Mon Aug 5, 2013, 11:11 AM
Aug 2013

The ludicrous "socialist" bullshit was to fire up the ignorant R voters.

It doesn't really matter what they attack him on; the point is to attack him. In the campaign to discredit him, flip-flopping is irrelevant.

I've said all along there was plenty of authentic ammunition they could choose from. His over-friendliness to corporations is just one.

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