Heh - Gawker: Paul Ryan ‘Irked’ As Obama Shreds His Budget Plan

[Pirate Smile]

Paul Ryan ‘Irked’ As Obama Shreds His Budget Plan

Barack Obama's major deficit reduction speech this afternoon was certainly better than expected.

He offered his strongest support for maintaining the social safety net as we know it rather than tearing it apart in the heat of a recession-induced budget gap. Meaning, he didn't buy into the framework of House Budget Committee chair Rep. Paul Ryan, whose plan to reduce spending by $6.2 trillion would only achieve that by eliminating Medicare and replacing it with a system of private subsidies that medical inflation would dilute to worthlessness, converting Medicaid into discretionary block grants for states, repealing both the health care and financial regulatory reform bills passed last year and more, all while slashing taxes on the rich and raising them on the poor. He pounced on Ryan's teenage Ayn Rand fantasy kit with Ryan himself sitting only a few yards away. Ryan wasn't pleased — some would even say "irked." This is prime entertainment for the Washington budget crowd! How will anyone fall asleep tonight?

Here's a crucial paragraph in the section of Obama's speech about Paul Ryan's "Path to Prosperity":

The fact is, their vision is less about reducing the deficit than it is about changing the basic social compact in America. As Ronald Reagan's own budget director said, there's nothing "serious" or "courageous" about this plan. There's nothing serious about a plan that claims to reduce the deficit by spending a trillion dollars on tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires. There's nothing courageous about asking for sacrifice from those who can least afford it and don't have any clout on Capitol Hill. And this is not a vision of the America I know.

And here's how the lamentable Mr. Ryan enjoyed the occasion:

All the while, Mr. Ryan sat in a front-row seat in the George Washington University auditorium Wednesday while Mr. Obama unveiled his plan to constrain growing levels of federal debt.

Mr. Ryan grew visibly annoyed during the speech, shaking his head in disgust. He feverishly took notes, and when Mr. Obama finished he stood up and bolted from the auditorium.

And then Ryan tripped and started crying and everyone laughed. "What a pathetic piece of shit," the President said from the podium, to applause and stomping. "What an interminable dick." Standing ovation.

http://gawker.com/#!5791809/paul-ryan-irked-as-obama-shreds-his-budget-plan

[tularetom]

1. No, Ryan wouldn't do that - he's "bold" and "courageous"

I know that because I heard it from the liberal media.

[Pirate Smile]

2. Don't forget "serious". Ryan also put out a very "serious" plan even though its numbers are fiction

and its aims cruel.

[flamingdem]

3. Ryans "Path to Poverty" will be a great meme to kick around for the next

few month ramping into the election.

Watch his profile in the party drop like a rock

[Shiver]

5. I was thinking something similar earlier today.

They've been calling the ACA the 'Job-Killing Health Bill' or whatever. We should start referring to the Bush tax cuts as 'The Baby-Killing Bush Tax Cuts'.

That's my plan from now on, at least. :evilgrin:

[roguevalley]

4. they forgot to add the part where he uses his insurance plan to

have the wedgie he gave himself removed from his ass.

[flamingdem]

6. haw. I love that he fidgeting throughout the speech

you know Obama was enjoying seeing that...

[roguevalley]

8. I know. And I love their personal sense of omnipotence. I guess

he thinks his abs and his frown lines are enough. :)

[TatonkaJames]

7. When confronted with facts..

Doesn't the spoiled rich kid run home to mommy ?

[BR_Parkway]

9. "But Big Daddy (Koch), you said if I put this out there, I'd be a hero,

and everyone would like me and call me serious and you'd let me run for President in 2016. But now they're laughing at me and you need to make them stop, stop I say" <holds breath and begins turning blue ad Big Daddy thumbs through Rolodex for next mid level politician he can use and discard like so much tissue>

[FrenchieCat]

10. Paul Ryan was on Charlie Rose this eve.....talking mighty fast.

He's full of shit, but quite smooth at it.

I suggest we start fact checking that asshole everytime he opens his mouth.
He needs to be called on his many lies as often and as loudly as possible.

I'm sending Media Matters an email....
I'm gonna ask them to look into that interview and fact check it.

But yeah...the guy talks mighty fast.

Said the President was being hyperbolically partisan. :eyes:

[myrna minx]

11. I'm so glad that the President chose to mop the floor with that simpering

fool instead of "reaching out" to him - because his plan *is* crazy! Ryan seems to think he's *co-president* and he needed to be called out on his bullshit.

[drm604]

12. "Ryan's teenage Ayn Rand fantasy kit"

I love that characterization of Ryan's plan.

[Blue Owl]

13. And the Heritage Foundation can go fuck itself, too

(aka Paul Ryan's puppetmaster)

[Canuckistanian]

14. I heard that Biden tied Ryan's shoelaces together

And that's why he fell down and cried.

Everyone's talking about it.