Posted on 04/10/2011 1:47:05 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
In 1983, the British Labor Party under the hard-left Michael Foot issued a 700-page manifesto so radical that one colleague called it "the longest suicide note in history." House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan has just released a recklessly bold, 73-page, 10-year budget plan. At 37 footnotes, it might be the most annotated suicide note in history.
(Excerpt) Read more at articles.ocregister.com ...
Another reply that has nothing to do with the article.
Misleading headlines are a common problem in most newspapers -- especially on conservative commentary and news stories that involve Republicans.
Since a lot of these headlines end up being posted on Free Republic, we're advised not to react to the headline until we read the content.
And, he's a hoplophobe. Years ago, he wrote the the federal government would "eventually" have to confiscate all firearms. Molon labe, Doctor.
Seriously. Sometimes reading Free Republics is like reading DU, only from the other side. Emotional rant, one side argument without any data.
I don't trust him 100% either, but on most issues he is on our side, and I think this article outlines the main arguments.
He might have thought it was a good speech (if so I disagree) but since then he has been attacking Obama's policies mercilessly.
Read what K. has to say in this article about Obama's arguments against Ryan:
"major demagoguery"
"Critics are describing Ryan's Medicare reform as privatization, a deliberately loaded term designed to instantly discredit the idea."
"The final charge – cutting taxes for the rich – is the most scurrilous. That would be the same as calling the Ronald Reagan-Bill Bradley 1986 tax reform "cutting taxes for the rich." In fact, it was designed for revenue neutrality. It cut rates – and for everyone – by eliminating loopholes"
But he also argues that even though the GOP is right on the issues, Obama is a coward who waited until Ryan proposed a plan to reform and then uses that plan as ammuntion for demagoguery. And we need the US voters to see through the leftist sophistry they have fallen for many times in the past.
Thanks.
Either it is my imagination, or my tolerance for emotionalism is falling, but it sure seems more so now than in the past.
One thing Krauthammer did not mention is that Ryan’s budget proposal to eliminate tax loopholes (if it gets that far) will start a war with the lobbyists. As if it wasn’t hard enough.
Did he mention the debt went up 60 billion while they argued over cutting 38. That is a net loss of 24 Billion. Ludiculous.
The article was about Ryan's budget, not the Bohner/Reid/Obama deal on Friday.
Some authors are so predictable, that it's not necessary to read the content of their articles, in order to predict whether you're likely to agree with them, or not.
Krauthammer has become someone who I'm increasingly in disagreement with, though he still occasionally makes a point that comports with my way of thinking.
Sometimes Krauthammer’s predictions are wrong. But he also usually lays out the possibilities and writes well.
Note: this topic is from April 10, 2011. Thanks ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas.
Don’t forget her eyes are to far apart!
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