Posted on 06/12/2015 1:31:40 PM PDT by cotton1706
How Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan went from budget-balancing conservative wunderkind, to GOP vice presidential nominee, to channeling Nancy Pelosi when he snarled, “It’s declassified and made public once it’s agreed to,” as he tried to sell Obama’s Trade Promotion Authority and Trans-Pacific Partnership treaties to skeptical conservatives during Rules Committee testimony on Wednesday is one of Washington’s saddest tales of how DC’s inside elite capture talent and bend it to their will.
Paul Ryan’s personal story of modest Midwestern beginnings and how his mother overcame family financial adversity after his father’s early death seemed to inform a Jack Kemp-style of optimistic conservatism in Ryan, who went to work for Kemp in 1992 and remained close to him through the end of his life.
But where Kemp warned against confusing spending cuts and entitlement reform, arguing, “Don’t confuse them. Don’t combine entitlement reform and spending cuts — the minute you do this, you lose,” Ryan seemed to revel in the kind of “green eyeshade” budget balancing that Kemp saw as a loser politically because it played directly into the Democrats’ narrative that Republicans wanted to balance the budget on the backs of poor people.
To be fair, as The Washington Post’s Suzy Khimm noted in a 2012 profile of Ryan, in 2004, he did try to revive Kemp’s “enterprise zone” plan, proposing a bill that would let businesses and individuals deduct all capital gains, savings and investing-related expenditures in high-poverty areas.
But Ryan abandoned such targeted proposals in favor of reforming the entire tax code and his budget that year would also have let the expansion of certain low-income tax breaks such as the Earned Income Tax Credit expire, whereas Kemp wanted to expand them.
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Sad but true.
Another “dead to me’ congressman.
He went full Willard. You never go full Willard.
The only question is whether Wisconsin Republicans will let him get away with this.
His opponent (either Democrat or Republican) now has a ready-made campaign commercial.
I had high hopes for that man but his true colors have shown through.
“I had high hopes for that man but his true colors have shown through.”
Unfortunately, we have had a lot of “true colors” on display lately, but my question is there any substantial resolve to get rid of them?
This guy drips with contempt for our opinions.
Paul Ryan and many others are snakes...backstabbing and he needs to lose his seat. In fact Republican leadership from Reince to Boehner...need to go.
Lyin’ Ryan
For us military retirees, Paul Ryan showed his true colors when he authored the 2013 budget that took funding from military retirement and gave it to liberal/left programs.
Apparently Ryan has been a closet RINO posing as a conservative for
some time.
He is not the only fake conservative. There are many other fake conservatives like Marsha Blackburn and many more who have been
exposed.
Yep, something happened to Ryan after being in DC for a while. Is it the water? Ryan definitely needs to be “Cantorized.”
He had so much promise at one time. I guess the only question is whether he was deceptive then or if he got fully absorbed by the Beltway ruling class culture.
Memo To Paul Ryan:
Click the Pic
Telling the people what they are going to get vs doing what the people ask is too much like the Roman Empire.
...or dictator states.
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