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Paul Ryan: Now the Ugly Face of the GOP Establishment
conservativehq.com ^ | 6/12/15

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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To: alstewartfan

But we still kid ourselves about the others.

Cruz co-wrote a pro trade legislation op ed with Ryan, and this week used the same “Don’t read everything you read on the Internet”-type excuse to deflect from the truth.

Walker pitched hard for the deal last night, too.


21 posted on 06/12/2015 2:05:39 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: 9YearLurker

Bttt


22 posted on 06/12/2015 2:10:13 PM PDT by Guenevere (If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do........Psalms 11:3)
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To: cotton1706

Ya can never trust a TARPer.


23 posted on 06/12/2015 2:15:44 PM PDT by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: tennmountainman

What did Blackburn do? I always liked her. She came to a couple of events in Tucson..


24 posted on 06/12/2015 2:18:56 PM PDT by DLfromthedesert (www.ouramericanrevival.com)
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To: cotton1706

any pubbie who does anything to help obammy do any damn thing is garbage.
Senore’ Ryan can kiss my ass.


25 posted on 06/12/2015 2:19:14 PM PDT by Joe Boucher ( Obammy is a lie, a mooselimb and pond scum.)
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To: cotton1706

he is dead Jim, dead.


26 posted on 06/12/2015 2:28:07 PM PDT by hadaclueonce (It is not heaven, it is Iowa. Everyone gets a "Corn Check")
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To: cotton1706

It’s hard to believe anyone could be so pathetic as to lose a debate to Joe Biden, which is what Paul Ryan did in the 2012 Vice Presidential debate.

Paul Ryan also failed to help the Republican ticket carry his home state of Wisconsin in the 2012 election.

Could anyone have been more useless to his party, both in 2012 and now, except for a double agent who was secretly working for the Democrats?


27 posted on 06/12/2015 2:36:18 PM PDT by Bluestocking
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To: 9YearLurker

I’m not kidding myself. I’m watching very closely.


28 posted on 06/12/2015 2:38:31 PM PDT by alstewartfan ("The wheel of fortune changes everything. Don't lose your head now." "Riyadh" by Al Stewart)
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To: Bluestocking
Could anyone have been more useless to his party, both in 2012 and now, except for a double agent who was secretly working for the Democrats?

It sounds like you have far too much faith in what politicians can do.

Ryan's a typical Congressman. They aren't all geniuses and they can't walk on water.

29 posted on 06/12/2015 2:42:30 PM PDT by x
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To: cotton1706
It all makes more sense now.

It is why Mitt chose him.
It is why he lost the debate to Biden.

30 posted on 06/12/2015 2:48:38 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The new GOP slogan: "Vote for us!!! We're 15% less evil than the Democrats!!!")
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To: cotton1706

This Obamatrade thing. I think Ryan and Cruz are going on the flawed assumption that it will work when past trade agreements passed in this way have not. The problem is we have an unsustainable illusion of prosperity, currently, built on widening trade deficits. True too the EU was (and still is) much touted as a good thing by “conventional wisdom” which flies in the face of stubborn facts (which paint a very different picture). We’ve got idealism trumping reality with this bunch, and that is a recipe for nothing good. Better to face our challenges sooner rather than later.


31 posted on 06/12/2015 3:27:08 PM PDT by BlackAdderess ("Give me a but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth". --Archimedes)
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To: cotton1706

Nope, he’s just the VP of the GOP-E.

Romney still is the leader.

Follow the money.


32 posted on 06/12/2015 3:31:03 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: cotton1706

Paul Ryan is a little RINO weasel just like Eric Cantor. No difference.


33 posted on 06/12/2015 4:00:59 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

> He went full Willard. You never go full Willard

When they do that you know they’ve been promised something. I’m guessing financial incentives of some sort.


34 posted on 06/12/2015 4:06:34 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: BlackAdderess
Your too generous.

Ryan and Cruz are owned by Billionaire Donors who want millions of H-1 visas for there Austin and Silicon Valley sweatshops .

Foreign engineers Are CHEAP Labor and these two traitors do not care about Americans workers only Billionaires and K street .

35 posted on 06/12/2015 4:31:08 PM PDT by ncalburt ( Amnesty-media out in full force)
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