Can it be true? Paul Ryan has never had a job outside of Congress?
Paul Ryan has never met a payroll, never been in the "market place" he so blithely advocates for others? Never not had government perks? It's astounding!
Can it be true this man has never been in the private sector but has been paid out of our tax revenues his ENTIRE ADULT LIFE?!? If so, this is the best argument ever made for retroactively downsizing government.
No wonder Paul Ryan has so little compassion – he came of age in Washington D.C. He was born on third base, says he hit a triple, then tells everyone else coming to the plate that they should bat without a helmet. What gall. What hypocrisy.
He believes in Ayn Rand but leaves out that atheism is the core of her philosophy, which is baking a cake without adding flour. Or eggs. He says we cannot afford compassion as a country and really, it's a sign of weakness. Does this staunch Catholic think he is quoting Jesus!?
He makes up a silly budget fiction about how to give more money to the rich while cutting food and hospitals and schools for the poor. Then he says Democrats are divisive?! This ego-driven wanker even lies about his time in marathons. He's never even run in Oregon's rain!
Paul Ryan's budgets are a sleight of hand, his "everybody-on-their-own" philosophy heartless in this time of hardship, his adherence to "free markets" uninformed. Ryan is as ambitious as Mitt Romney and just as bogus.
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Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
The Santorum message
Much of Rick Santorum's moralizing may be valid, for him and probably for a lot of people. Family is good. Community is good. Responsibility is good.
But that is irrelevant. It's been known for a long, long time that we each need to come to our own relationship with the universe, our god, our higher power, our society. We do not change because some angry, tight-lipped moralizing, demeaning male is telling us how awful we are.
He doesn't have a right to get involved in my relationships. I don't want to go live in his house. I just won't. Regardless of that episode where he and his wife took the dead fetus home to their kids.
I actually liked Santorum's dressing down of the New York Times reporter who tried to set him up yesterday over comments about Romney. Santorum was right, it was unfair and taken out of context. That the reporter seemed speechless was telling in itself.
But what was not okay was how he responded. His facial expressions. His body language. The anger, the sarcasm, the belittling, the threat. This is an unpleasant man. A strident and ill-humored man. This is a man we all have known elsewhere in our lives, and may have been on more than one occasion, and are hopefully are trying to change.
It doesn't matter if he is right. His self-righteousness is wrong. It shows a fatal character flaw for one who has the might of America at his fingertips.
Is there a place for outrage? Yes. Do I trust Santorum? No, I don't trust any zealot, Santorum is as much a zealot as any mullah in Pakistan. And we don't want him to have the bomb, either.
But that is irrelevant. It's been known for a long, long time that we each need to come to our own relationship with the universe, our god, our higher power, our society. We do not change because some angry, tight-lipped moralizing, demeaning male is telling us how awful we are.
He doesn't have a right to get involved in my relationships. I don't want to go live in his house. I just won't. Regardless of that episode where he and his wife took the dead fetus home to their kids.
I actually liked Santorum's dressing down of the New York Times reporter who tried to set him up yesterday over comments about Romney. Santorum was right, it was unfair and taken out of context. That the reporter seemed speechless was telling in itself.
But what was not okay was how he responded. His facial expressions. His body language. The anger, the sarcasm, the belittling, the threat. This is an unpleasant man. A strident and ill-humored man. This is a man we all have known elsewhere in our lives, and may have been on more than one occasion, and are hopefully are trying to change.
It doesn't matter if he is right. His self-righteousness is wrong. It shows a fatal character flaw for one who has the might of America at his fingertips.
Is there a place for outrage? Yes. Do I trust Santorum? No, I don't trust any zealot, Santorum is as much a zealot as any mullah in Pakistan. And we don't want him to have the bomb, either.
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