[neverdem]

Paul Ryan, the anti-progressive, the anti-utopian, the anti-liberal, I think he can campaign on it in this time of the Tea Party Movement. All this progressive crap is an attack on the middle class. The left always hated the bourgeoisie most of all. Look at PETA's hatred of all domesticated animals.

[9YearLurker]

The more I read about Ryan the more I like.

[neverdem]

The rats want a banzai charge. I'd call blue dogs and rats in competitive districts. Some could be flipped into changing parties. Others will become targets.

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[freekitty]

I like Paul Ryan. He has the right vision. He obviously doesn’t believe in throwing your hard earned money away into the hands of those who don’t deserve it.

[Leisler]

Ryan. Republicans can do socialized medicine better.

This is the GOP equivalent of Bush’s Home Ownership Society.

[greeneyes]

Well I'll take Reagan's trickle down prosperity instead of the massive “stealing from the needy to give to the greedy” that has been followed by the O’s minions.

[GreenAccord]

This artcle tries REALLY hard to denigrate Ryan’s (and all of the Conservative) platform while gladhanding me. I’m sure the author would be surprised if he knew how many times I nodded my head and said ‘Yep!’ as I read it. There’s a lot of sneaky ‘conservatives want people to starve’ intimations in this.

Anyone else read this into it?

[broken_arrow1]

Ryan's plan would dramatically increase the budget deficit.

Bullshit! The Laffer curve shows that increasing taxes always results in less tax-based revenue, while cutting taxes actually increases revenue. That is because when taxes are cut, there are more people employed to tax. The Democrats always ignore reality and try to increase taxes at their own peril (because they are stupid communists!).

[Jim Noble]

The core of the Randian worldview, as absorbed by the modern GOP, is a belief that the natural market distribution of income is inherently moral, and the central struggle of politics is to free the successful from having the fruits of their superiority redistributed by looters and moochers.

Not that there's anything wrong with that...

[Jim Noble]

His basic moral premises are foreign, even abhorrent, to liberals.

That's the core of the problem, and that's why we're headed for war.

[FreedomPoster]

Being attacked by the New Republic, yet another feather in Paul Ryan’s cap.

[denydenydeny]

Looks like Ryan is officially on the radar and can expect the Bachman/Palin treatment.

....the liberal vision of capitalism shorn of its cruelest edges.

a.k.a. Socialism.

[Right Wing Assault]

I bet the lefties are digging into Ryan’s background so deep right now.

President Ryan has a nice ring to it. Maybe he can hire Mitch Rapp to help clean things up.

[Condor51]

Anything coming from The New Republic is Communist bullcarp.

The New Republic
History - Early years

One consequence of World War I was the Russian Revolution of 1917, and during the inter-war years the magazine was generally positive in its assessment of the Soviet Union and its communist government.

I 'think' The New Republic and their columnists get their ideas from Communist Party USA and its 'newspaper', the 'Peoples Weekly World'. (just my .02¢)

[loveliberty2]

"Found in: John Adams, The Works of John Adams, vol. 4 (Novanglus, Thoughts on Government, Defence of the Constitution) - NO. III. - paragraph 144

"Obsta principiis, nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. When the people give way, their deceivers, betrayers, and destroyers press upon them so fast, that there is no resisting afterwards. The nature of the encroachment upon the American constitution is such, as to grow every day more and more encroaching. Like a cancer, it eats faster and faster every hour. The revenue creates pensioners, and the pensioners urge for more revenue. The people grow less steady, spirited, and virtuous, the seekers more numerous and more corrupt, and every day increases the circles of their dependents and expectants, until virtue, integrity, public spirit, simplicity, and frugality, become the objects of ridicule and scorn, and vanity, luxury, foppery, selfishness, meanness, and downright venality swallow up the whole society."

[SupplySider]

Ryan's tax plan alone would amount to the greatest shift of resources from the non-rich to the rich in the history of the United States, by far.

Correctly stated: Ryan's plan would somewhat reduce the distribution of wealth from those who earned it to those who didn't.

Of course this doesn't take into account Ryan's main point, that the economic growth caused by reducing the top tax rate and liberating billions into the private economy benefits the poor and middle class more than redistribution. This point is rarely addressed by "liberals" because it kills their entire argument.