Rising Hegemon
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...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…
The absurd thing is that Ryan’s act isn’t even politically courageous. It’s canny calculation, but courage it is not...
No matter what, Ryan’s gambit, ultimately, is all about trying to get middle-class voters to swallow paying for tax cuts for rich people. It takes chutzpah to try such a thing, but having a lot of balls is not the same as having courage.
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Sums it up
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Yes, indeed, Matt. But, they're not going to listen until the commoners roll out the guillotines onto all those well-tended lawns in the Hamptons....
Aaaah. That's the hi-test.
ayn rand prittee boy. wolf in sheep's clothing.
Ryan smiles and pundits pander to ponder his serious deep thoughts..and media morphs into deep admiration for all that is youngish and bold sounding, cf. lookalikes Cantor, Rand Paul, etc. and paid for by the big monied.
Who wants to thimk when they can praise? Easter is coming, regretfully....this sort of ressurection we don't need. Revolution, not ressurection...of tired phantasies.
vox
Ryan is the front man for the altar of Greed. Change the focus to getting rid of all and any Middle class support via "Capitalism."
the Sheeple love it. watch the Idiot Whites push for the dismantling of Social Security, medicare under the "Leadership" of the Conservative.
America is truly a strange place. how ignorant can these white people be?
because the gnews has been feeding zombie reagan.
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