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 OFFLINE | so of course, the left has set about demagoguing any effort to reform the bankrupting entitlements, while offering no plan of their own. they're showing paul ryan shove little old ladies off a cliff; like what a classic instance of scare mongering is that? and the whole mediscare tactic worked up in the NY-26 district, along with another classic move, of introducing a phony third party candidate to take up 9% of the proverbial slack.
this is going to be the ugliest election cycle in history. things are just bad. as has been the case in the past, the republicans are looking at solutions to the ballooning entitlement quandary our nation is in, while the democrats roll out the same tired lines about "destroying medicare" and letting old people start piling up beside the street for garbage pick up.
talk about the party of no? it's been over 750 days since the senate has passed anything. ANYTHING. they voted down the ryan budget proposal 57-40, but if this tells you anything, they rejected obama's joke of a budget 97-0. nearly unanimous, with 3 abstaining.
it's so bad, that you now have bill clinton of all people trying to urge the democrats to DO SOMETHING! anything, other than demagogue any proposal made by the republicans.
their conversation went as follows:
"So anyway, I told them before you got here, I said I’m glad we won this race in New York," Clinton told Ryan, when the two met backstage at a forum on the national debt held by the Pete Peterson Foundation. But he added, “I hope Democrats don't use this as an excuse to do nothing.”
Ryan told Clinton he fears that now nothing will get done in Washington.
“My guess is it’s going to sink into paralysis is what’s going to happen. And you know the math. It’s just, I mean, we knew we were putting ourselves out there. You gotta start this. You gotta get out there. You gotta get this thing moving,” Ryan said.
Clinton told Ryan that if he ever wanted to talk about it, he should “give me a call.” Ryan said he would.
but this response from ryan gave me all the more respect for this man.
I asked Ryan about Republicans nervous about what their vote for his budget will hurt them in the 2012 election.
“This is not the time to go wobbly,” Ryan said. “They (Democrats) are going to run these attack ads at us regardless. This is a time for leaders to be leaders. This is not a time for us to follow our fears, this is a time to lead because if we don’t address our countries fiscal problems we are going to have a debt crisis and the people who are going to get hurt the first and the worst are the people who need government the most, the elderly and the poor.
Ryan's attitude: Game On.
god help us. we can't keep playing this game of demagoguery. throughout recent history, every single time the republicans have tried to come up with a solution to the growing entitlement meltdown we're headed toward, the democrats come out and drum up the fear factor, and claim the republicans are trying to destroy what they are in fact trying to preserve. and what do they offer in response? more entitlement, and more government.
i am an entitlement recipient. both from medicare, and social security. and those services are vital to me. but i would much prefer some lessening of benefits, if it means avoiding a total collapse of the programs. and the longer we do nothing, the closer we get to that point. it's been building and building for decades, and every time it's the same old dog and pony show.
and the republicans are backing down from the scare tactics, and as always, acting afraid to be conservative because of the media beat downs that entails. so again, it's working. but as ryan said, if the republicans think that they can just back away from the issues, and try to be the nice guys, and not ruffle any feathers, then we're going to have four more years of obama, and probably lose ground in congress. these dumbasses need to figure out what they believe, figure out exactly what is in the policies they support, and argue for conservativism proudly. otherwise, it really is bad news for america. i don't think most understand just how badly obama has destroyed our country.
it's time to man the eff up, or get out of the way and let someone else do it. we can't keep passing the buck. |
oh the demagoguery
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