Paul Ryan? BWAHAHA!!!

If ever you needed proof of how far the GOP has descended into D.C. think tank bubble world- look no further than Romney's pick of Paul Ryan for VP. A lot of us in Wisconsin know what a clown this guy really is, and it'll be a lot of fun to see this guy's alleged credibility destroyed.

Don't believe me? Check out what President Obama said about Ryan's GOP budget plan, in a speech delivered the same day that and Romney were skirting Wisconsin election laws by handing out free subs at a Waukesha Subway.



I couldn't find the video from a couple of years ago where Ryan gave some hot-air "statement in a question" to Obama, and then Obama immediately destroyed it by showing that Ryan's plan to voucherize Medicare WOULD DO NOTHING to stop the rising cost of health care, and is merely an accounting exercise that would leave tens of millions of Americans with higher out-of-pocket costs, and would constrain both their own economy, and the U.S. economy at large. This is common sense, but Ryan's made a good living with his Koch-fronted grift, and so there's never been any incentive for him to stop trying to sell this fallacy.

This is true even in the rare case when he's softly challenged, like George Stephanopholous did a month ago after Obamacare was upheld. Watch how Paulie starts rambling around 1:30 in this link, and is unable to give any specifics on where the hole in his Medicare budget goes.

Couple of reactions to that video: 1. Leaving people at the metcy of insurance companies doesn't lead to rationing or a lowering of care quality, does it, Paulie? The difference being that government has to care about its constituents (that "we the people" thing) while insurance companies only care about making blood money off of us.
2. Lyin' Ryan is basically saying that cutting Medicare will leave for more in the future, but can't tell that truth, so he uses these Orwellian euphenisms to try to confuse the rubes who aren't smart enough to see through his bullshit.

Also, will our media remind Americans of Ryan's "budget", which was filled with asterisks and assumptions about the final product, with absolutely no idea how to get there? Paul Krugman has been taking this charlatan apart for the last few years, and here is a great example from last year of Krugman exposing Purty Mouth Paulie as fraudulent.

And even after the cracks in the House budget proposal became apparent, much of the commentariat clung to the view that whatever you might think of Ryan’s priorities, he really is serious and sincere.

But he isn’t.

Jon Cohn points out that the real question about the Ryan plan isn’t whether it reduces the deficit in the right way; it’s whether it reduces the deficit at all. And Cohn doesn’t even take on the giant magic asterisk on the tax part of the plan: Ryan claims that he will keep revenue at 19 percent of GDP despite large tax cuts, by closing loopholes — but has said nothing at all about which loopholes would be closed. The truth is that this is almost surely a deficit-increasing plan, not a deficit-reducing plan.

I mean, I could claim that I'm going to be a millionaire within 2 years by publishing the notes from this blog, because that's what American dreams are made of, but just saying so doesn't make it happen. And that's what flim-flammers like Paul Ryan are selling- a whole lot of fizz but absolutely nothing of substance other than false hope and failed trickle-down garbage.

It's why you gotta think in the West Wing today, this is the general reaction to R-money choosing Ryan.

And it sure isn't going to help the GOP carry Wisconsin this fall. I'll still take Obama -9.5 as the line on that one.