Posted on 08/22/2014 8:15:57 AM PDT by jimbo123
As Congress hurtled toward a government shutdown in the fall of 2013, Rep. Paul Ryan looked around at fellow Republicans who were agitating to shutter national parks, federal agencies and Head Start programs.
"This can't be the full measure of our party and our movement," Ryan writes of that moment in his new book, released Tuesday. "If it is, we're dead and the country is lost."
Such moments of raw frustration pepper Ryan's "The Way Forward: Renewing the American Idea," a book as much about his front-row seat as Republicans' favorite budget wonk as it is about his political future. Ryan is considered a contender for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
“Hey, A-hole, no one was agitating to shutter national parks. No one. The Dems did it as a strategy to make the Republicans look bad. If Ryan does not understand that, he’s a complete F-ing idiot.”
Good summary. If someone in the GOP accepts Democrats accusations as truth, then what use is he?
“Ryan recounts being confronted at a county fair by a Democrat who objected to his frequent talk of “the makers” and “the takers,” or the divide between those who pay more taxes than the ones who receive government benefits such as unemployment insurance, Social Security and Medicare. Ryan now realizes that during that confrontation, he had been insulting voters without realizing it.”
Ryan wanted to cut the prepaid pensions of the military while fully supporting tax “refunds” to illegals. Apart from attacking military pensions (which are funded in advance by the Pentagon with a pension fund that is in the black for as far as the eye can see), Ryan accepts pretty much everything.
He makes no attempt to distinguish between those getting SS benefits they worked for, and those getting disability thru fraud. He seems to have no idea that there are generations who have lived on welfare. He apparently has never seen an extremely fat woman pay with food stamps while her extremely fat kids go around the checkout aisle (because they wouldn’t FIT thru the checkout aisle), or watched them get into a new car.
He’s making GWB look like a fiscal conservative, and GWB most definitely was NOT!
When was the last time an active politician wrote a book worth reading?
Mein Kampf. /s
I guess people are getting tired of the babble spewn by politicians. I am getting tired of the continual appearances by the same pundits on the talk shows (Beckel, Williams, Powers, Rove, et al). It’s more interesting to hear the conversations at the local coffee shop.
“Ryan is considered a contender for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination.”
Not by Republicans. :-)
I guess his frustration is why Americans will not cave to Marxists and join their party,my frustration is why jerkoffs like him just don’t join the democrat party if he supports amnesty and higher taxes and obamcare like hd does
No one is reading except for CBS. That should tell you something right there.
Paul Ryan is a big-government politician. His solutions always involve more government, not less. FUPR.
Has he hit all the late-night book-a-thon news programs yet? You know ...Hannity/O’Reilly/vanSusteren/Kelley paid advertising programs?
-—BREAKING NEWS-—
We’re talking with Congressman Paul Ryan. “Congressman...what are your feelings on the activities in Ferguson, Missouri? And, by the way folks, be sure and read Congressman Ryan’s new book...The Way Forward: Renewing the American Idea, available thru all of your favorite book outlets.”
(Book cover briefly displayed on the TV screen.)
Because what this country needs is more 3rd world invaders, fewer Americans working and more people on welfare....
um... no
Newt Gingrich's "Contract With America"
He was perfectly willing to screw veterans though
Correct, he is a RINO amd he can’t shake the image. He talked smack and got it handed to him. Siding in with the elitists in DC he has sunk his own ship.
Uh, I think you missed the dichotomy: it is these "smart, wonderful people" nominating these "unprincipled, self-promoting leaders."
Ryan can sell his Socialist schtick to the ‘Rat party though Patty Murray is smarter than him.
Those were the words of the fake journalist, remember...not Paul Ryan’s.
Go away Paul Ryan. You are a liberal and you’ve proven it with your Democrat talking points.
Quayle is 500 times smarter than Biden.
One would think there would be so much to bash the Democrats over that there wouldn’t be time to bash the Republicans.
The Democrats never seem to have this problem.
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