Coulter: Save Us From Paul Ryan and the Kemp Boys

Truth Revolt ^ | 10/22/15 | Ann Coulter

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After Paul Ryan helped Mitt Romney lose the 2012 election by doing the impossible -- losing a debate to Joe Biden -- he went on an intimate tour of poverty. It was a journey so personal, Ryan brought reporters, writers and documentary producers with him. So far, he's gotten one book and one documentary out of The Paul Ryan Intimate Poverty Tour and is currently promoting a major poverty-fighting initiative that he brainstormed during private moments of reflection, somehow captured by the press: "The Kemp Forum on Expanding Opportunity."

Appropriately for an event named after Ryan's mentor, Jack Kemp, the forum will allow Ryan to showcase his deep concern for the poor without doing a thing to help them. This is the hallmark of the "empowerment" crowd. What matters is their own self-regard and favorable press notices, not accomplishing anything useful.

All of human experience has already taught us how to fight poverty, and it doesn't involve the words "opportunity," "empowerment" or "zone."

Effective: Don't pay people not to work. The 1996 welfare reform act, with its time limits and work requirements, reduced welfare caseloads by an astronomical 65 percent, as former recipients entered the workforce.

Ineffective: Self-flattering politicians jabbering about how much they care about poverty, then creating behemoth government programs that give corporations tax breaks for pretending to help the poor.

Effective: Stop dumping millions of low-wage workers on the country to drive down wages. America's booming, prosperous middle class arose in the 40-year period after immigration was virtually shut down in 1924 -- until Teddy Kennedy opened the floodgates to the Third World in 1965.

Ineffective: Demanding an endless supply of cheap immigrant labor favored by your corporate donors, subsidized by the long-suffering middle class, while strutting around like you're Martin Luther King.

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From article:

The best thing I ever heard about Dick Cheney is that, after listening to Ryan drone on about how Republicans needed to create "a real ownership society" at a meeting with members of Congress, Cheney said, "Yeah, we're not going to do that," and then turned to a different representative.

[skeeter]

Excellent essay.

[xzins]

I agree. Excellent essay. Ann is either right on the money or she makes you pull your hair out.

Wonder if she’s related to Pat Buchanen.

[Servant of the Cross]

Ann is either right on the money or she makes you pull your hair out. Wonder if she’s related to Pat Buchanen.

Yea ... within the same 24 hour news cycle she produced this ... Ann Coulter: "My dream team: @realDonaldTrump-@MittRomney"a

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White House Praises Paul Ryan For Working With Obama On Trade And Immigration

Charlie Spiering22 Oct 2015

The White House is open to the idea of Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) 58% as the next Speaker of the House, saying the Wisconsin Congressman had worked with the administration on issues they care about in the past.

“The president believes that Congressman Ryan is someone who has given considerable thought to the significant issues that must be worked through in Congress,” White House Deputy Press Secretary Eric Schultz explained during a press briefing this afternoon.

Schultz singled out Ryan for working with the administration to grant the Obama administration trans-Pacific trade authority, and his efforts to work with them on immigration.

Via Breitbart

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Save us from pundits pushing "smart" candidates like Mitt Romney.

Sorry Ann, your credibility is running low.

[Leaning Right]

Ann is either right on the money or she makes you pull your hair out.

Ain't that the truth. But like with Buchanan, when Coulter is right, she is more than just right, she hits it out of the park.

I also like that Coulter is very non-PC.

She just needs to get over her misguided (and bizarre) fascination with Romney.

[fishtank]

Bill says, "Ooooooohhhh, Ann, I LOOOOVVVEEEE it when you fool the crackers!!!"

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[GulliverSwift]

Save us from scrawny RINO witches trying to shove Mitt Romney on us for 16 years.

[9YearLurker]

That’s disgusting!

If Trump picks Romney I’m rethinking Trump. And I won’t be the only one.

[wita]

...and I would say, far far and away better than the present occupant of the President’s House and his second in command.

Until of course we find out differently and that ain’t going to happen anyway if the Party faithful have anything to say about it.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

I sure miss Dick Cheney!

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2015/08/31/vice_president_cheney_and_liz_cheney_on_their_new_book_exceptional_why_the_world_needs_a_powerful_america

[odawg]

“Sorry Ann, your credibility is running low.”

In other words, she is wrong about Ryan, and you would love to see him as Speaker?

I don’t really care for Rand Paul’s politics, but if I needed an eye doctor and he could help me, I would be grateful.

[odawg]

“If Trump picks Romney I’m rethinking Trump. And I won’t be the only one.”

Why, what would make you think, that Ann Coulter gets to pick Trump’s running mate?

She is a pundit. That is what pundits do. They write about their opinions.

My personal opinion is that there is a snowball’s chance in hell that will happen.

As Trump has stated, he doesn’t like losers.

[9YearLurker]

I don’t. Just addressing her stupid hypothetical wish.

And yes, I think Trump is way smarter than that.

[CyberAnt]

“... expanding opportunity ...”

Sounds like immigration to me.

[Impy]

She still loves Romney though right.

Um....fail?

[BillyBoy]

>> She still loves Romney though right. <<

Yep, Ann Coulter's been a Romney fangirl since 2008. The weird thing is it took her cheerleaders four years to see that. When she was publicly pimping him in 2008 ( for example: http://talk.baltimoresun.com/topic/44802-ann-coulter-endorses-romney-for-pres/ ), they just flat out ignored it and pretended she had "endorsed Duncan Hunter" because she praised his voting record once or twice. Then they were "shocked" and "outraged" when she behaved the same way and endorsed Romney again in 2012.

DeMint's always been a Romney cheerleader as well. In fact, he was pushing him much harder in 2008 than in 2012. In '08, he was among the first to endorse him, but he laid low in 2012 and waited until Romney was in 1st place.

[moehoward]

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