Paul Rand: Imposter

[crussmith2]

Paul Ryan — Randian Super-Hero of Individual Self-Reliance and Working Class Warrior against government debt, waste, and intrusiveness — whose actual life is a testament to the precise opposite values. As Charles Pierce and Joan Walsh document, not only was Ryan raised in a rich family and not only has he spent his entire adult life on the public payroll, but he has relied, and continues to rely, on various forms of government help in climbing every rung on his educational and careerist ladder. His claim to fiscal conservatism is even more laughable, as he voted FOR virtually every program that has piled up debt over the past decade, including the Iraq War (not just its commencement but its limitless continuation), the Wall Street bailout, Medicare Part D, Endless War in Afghanistan, and — in the midst of all of that — Bush tax cuts.

Perhaps most ludicrous of all is the notion that he’s some sort of advocate for restrained federal government power. As Antiwar.com’s John Glaser documented today, Ryan has continuously voted in favor of measures to expand all sorts of intrusive federal power, including making the PATRIOT Act permanent, enacting the Military Commissions Act to provide indefinite detention with no habeas corpus rights, implementing the Protect America Act to massively expand the U.S. Government’s power to eavesdrop on Americans without warrants, supporting a federal Constitutional amendment to deny same-sex couples the right to marry along with a law banning the ability of gay couples in D.C. to adopt children and the continuation of Don’t Ask/Don’t Tell, a Constitutional amendment to criminalize flag burning, and almost every proposed measure to restrict abortion rights.
The Right?s brittle heroes - Salon.com

 

[Pete7469]

Go eat some more paint chips asswad.

Hint BTW...

When mindless douchebags like this are attacking someone, they're being effective and we need to support them.

 

[Kevin_Kennedy]

That Paul Ryan isn't actually interested in limiting the government is not exactly a secret.

 

[Pete7469]

That Paul Ryan isn't actually interested in limiting the government is not exactly a secret.

Hey fuck it, throw him under the bus because he doesn't cater to your every whim. Great way to defeat the left, lets demonize everyone who doesn't push the Ron Paul agenda, and get mad when they reject our other ideas....

Brilliant strategy, thanks for your help.

 

[Kevin_Kennedy]

That Paul Ryan isn't actually interested in limiting the government is not exactly a secret.

Hey fuck it, throw him under the bus because he doesn't cater to your every whim. Great way to defeat the left, lets demonize everyone who doesn't push the Ron Paul agenda, and get mad when they reject our other ideas....

Brilliant strategy, thanks for your help.

I don't want to "defeat" the left. If I want to defeat anything its statism, and Paul Ryan is a statist through and through.

 

[Oddball]

That Paul Ryan isn't actually interested in limiting the government is not exactly a secret.

Hey fuck it, throw him under the bus because he doesn't cater to your every whim. Great way to defeat the left, lets demonize everyone who doesn't push the Ron Paul agenda, and get mad when they reject our other ideas....

Brilliant strategy, thanks for your help.

Ryan is a neocon tool...He wouldn't have been the VP choice of neocon tool Romney if he weren't.

Wake the fuck up, dude.

 

[crussmith2]

For Pete's sake who is the we - do you have a gaggle of brownshirts in your pocket?
The big Peter knows he's the only storm trooper on duty on the board this mo!