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Paul Ryan Tries to Take Credit for Caving to Obama on Fiscal Cliff
Paul Ryan (R-WI) issued a statement explaining his “yes” vote on the fiscal cliff deal in which he blames a lack of Presidential leadership and praises the Republican majority House for “providing certainty” by making lower taxes permanent. Yes, it’s almost as if Ryan has no idea what just happened or how it happened.
Ryan’s statement:
“We’ll never get our debt under control unless we tackle its main drivers: too little economic growth and too much spending. Without presidential leadership, it will be difficult to forge bipartisan solutions to our debt and economic challenges.
“Today, I joined my colleagues in the House to protect as many Americans as possible from a tax increase. We also provided certainty by making the lower tax rates permanent. The House has already passed legislation to prevent tax increases for every American family, and it is unfortunate that President Obama insisted on taking more from hardworking taxpayers. Despite my concerns with other provisions in the bill, I commend my colleagues for limiting the damage as much as possible.
“The American people chose divided government. As elected officials, we have a duty to apply our principles to the realities of governing. And we must exercise prudence. We must weigh the benefits and the costs of action—and of inaction. In H.R. 8, there are clearly provisions that I oppose. But the question remains: Will the American people be better off if this law passes relative to the alternative? In the final analysis, the answer is undoubtedly yes. I came to Congress to make tough decisions—not to run away from them.
“Now, we must return our attention to the real problem: out-of-control spending. Washington’s reckless spending drives the debt. And this debt is hurting the economy today. Unless we get at the heart of the problem, Americans will face a debt crisis—one that will threaten our most vulnerable in particular. It is our responsibility to prevent such a crisis.”
End Statement.
No mention that Republicans in the House provided the most uncertainty they possibly could, once again, to our markets, saving tough realities for the very, very last minute while leaving Hurricane Sandy victims to twist in the wind.
Ryan still thinks that because he believes, you will too. This is the guy who bases monetary policy on the speech of a fictional character from a novel for teenage boys (for real). So, we get the spin that Republicans were fighting for lower tax rates for everyone, instead of squealing bloody murder over the tax increase on the wealthy.
At least Ryan got the score for that Rose Bowl game.
Ryan sorta forgot to mention that Republicans were objecting to extending the lower tax rates to the rest of America unless the top percent got them as well. But you can’t blame him, because Ryan is going McCain with bitter pot shots like this one, “The American people chose divided government….”
Yes, America, you would not have had to suffer the indignity of watching the Republican controlled House of Representatives behaving like spoiled children refusing to give up their toys before bed if only you had given Ryan and the Republicans what they really, really wanted: The White House.
You will pay. Oh, you’ll pay.
Nation, repeat: It was not a historically ridiculous clown show that threatened to plunge us back into a recession; rather, the Republicans ‘provided certainty’. Also, all of that fuss? They weren’t fighting for billionaires and corporations! They were fighting for you. And lastly, it wasn’t that they couldn’t do their job and had to toss their responsibility to the Senate. It wasn’t that Mitch McConnell and Joe Biden didn’t work together to craft the Senate solution to the House failure. Oh, no. It was the President’s fault, because he showed no leadership.
The House failure to pass Boehner’s Plan B and then just giving up? That was liberty at work! And certainty. Oh, so certain.
We are still waiting for Ryan to have enough “time” to explain the math in his budget to us. But between the football games, working out and watching the nation dangle over the fiscal cliff, well, time is precious.
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12 Responses to Paul Ryan Tries to Take Credit for Caving to Obama on Fiscal Cliff
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Mark E. Bye
Jan. 2nd, 2013 at 10:41 am
The certainty that we all know that they are a bunch of lying, cheating, self-serving, grifting assholes.
Jim Hubbard
Jan. 2nd, 2013 at 10:48 am
Ryan and the other Republicans continue to push the supply-side nonsense even after it was outed by the Congressional Research Service as NOT growing the economy and only serving to transfer wealth upward (though notice how that is not considered socialist redistribution by Republicans).
C.
Jan. 2nd, 2013 at 12:11 pm
That “choosing” divided government BS only happened because the repubs redrew district lines that insured them winning seats, otherwise we’d have had a stronger gain in House seats.
Also too, yeah, Paul Ryan is a bitter, vindictive, lying loser.
D. W. Skinner
Jan. 2nd, 2013 at 12:28 pm
apparently there isn’t enough toilet paper on the planet to wipe him our of the crack of politics.
RMuse
Jan. 2nd, 2013 at 1:53 pm
Delusion is rife in Ryan’s pea-brain. If he knew how incredibly pathetic and stupid his remarks were, he would go jump off a real cliff. Fortunately for his own existence, he is unable to conceive just how bad he embarrasses himself. What a sad piece of work.
Cleave Drummmond
Jan. 2nd, 2013 at 2:18 pm
What I can’t understand is almost all of them were elected back into office, especially the ones that caused the most problems.
Here is to another 2 years of a do nothing Congress.
Goddess1871
Jan. 2nd, 2013 at 3:20 pm
My GOD, that SOB is such a punk.
1voice1vote
Jan. 2nd, 2013 at 3:50 pm
“It is our responsibility to prevent such a crisis.” – Ryan
14-years as a Congressman running up war debt, and Paul Ryan(R – WI district #1) wants a medal for creating a crisis so he could “prevent” the crisis? That’s some tea-brained logic served Fox-misinformation style. Really responsible, GOP. Really.
majii
Jan. 2nd, 2013 at 7:50 pm
Right, 1voice1vote, and I’m also wondering why he never mentions that after spending 14 years in the House as a “budget guru” and “deficit buster,” not one of the two bills associated with his name has anything to do with budgets or deficits. Paul Ryan is an empty suit sucking off the government’s teet who has been designated with an inaccurate reputation, not earned by his actions, but granted to him by the MSM and the GOP.
majii
Jan. 2nd, 2013 at 8:08 pm
The fact of the matter is that throughout these negotiations Ryan has intentionally kept a low profile. In last year’s negotiations, he was front and center and was erroneously imbued with budgetary skills that had nothing to do with his actual abilities to craft workable, and fair, budgets. He’s a one trick pony whose major skill is in lying poorly. If PBO had provided no leadership during these negotiations, why did Boehner leave the WH and decide NOT to return to continue them? Boehner wasn’t negotiating with Eastwood’s empty chair at the WH! Ryan and others like him forget that before VP Biden met with McConnell, the VP and PBO already had a strategy in place. Ryan also needs to remember that it was decided before negotiations began that the president would be negotiating only with Boehner, and that the Senate was left out of negotiations because it had already passed a bill that cut taxes for the middle class. Some republicans are strange people because they don’t seem to be able to make up their minds about the president’s leadership style. According to them, sometimes he’s a bold, ruthless leader, sometimes he leads from behind, and sometimes he fails to lead at all, even though he’s actively negotiating with them when they’re telling the lie. In light of these things, it is no wonder some rank and file republicans were duped by shysters like Romney/Ryan into believing that a majority of Americans hated the president, and that he would definitely be a one-term president. Imagine their surprise at @ 11:15 PM on November 6, 2012.
1voice1vote
Jan. 2nd, 2013 at 10:40 pm
Always respect your posts, Majii. “He’s a one trick pony.” Ha, the Republicans wish. Ryan’s got Randian squat. Ryan lacks courage of conviction: Paul Ryan Refuses Bible from Faithful America: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6...
Ryan lacks vision: in 13 years in Congress 2 Paul Ryan bills have become law. He renamed a post office in his district and he “amended the Internal Revenue Code to impose a 39-cent tax per arrow shaft, instead of a 12.4 percent tax on the sales price.” (arrows, as in bows and Romeyhood boy in tights).
After playing power-broker for all these years, Ryan has yet to show that he can think on his feet. Ryan’s a third-stringer at best – that he’s the best the GOP can come up with tells us? The Koch brothers’ billions haven’t purchased the best and brightest, only those that are “for sale.”
vera donato
Jan. 2nd, 2013 at 4:46 pm
Paul Ryan, you are so full of it! Have you always taken the credit for other people’s work or is this something new for you? You could be a little more gracious about your losses and just do the job the people sent you there to do. Just this kind of thinking is what kept you out of the White House, THANK GOD! Lack of leadership? The President cleaned your clocks and you are having a tantrum. Take a time out and everything will be fine when you’ve learned your lesson.