How Obama used Paul Ryan

[Still a Democrat]

President Obama may be criticized after his speech Wednesday for not providing many specifics about his plan to cut the national debt.
What he will not be criticized for is being too soft on Republicans.
The target of Obama’s speech was unmistakable, as the president used his pulpit at George Washington University to lay into the House Republican plan proposed by Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.).

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Obama talked in-depth about Ryan’s plan, casting it in extremely dark terms.
He said it includes cuts that concede the very fiber of America and that “paint a vision of our future that’s deeply pessimistic.” He said the plan would leave crumbling roads and collapsing bridges unfixed. He said the plan “ends Medicare as we know it” and that up to 50 million Americans could lose their insurance – all while the wealthy get tax breaks.

“That’s not right, and it’s not going to happen as long as I’m president,” Obama said.

The statement was one of several bold pronouncements from Obama about the Ryan plan. A sampling:

* “We do not have to sacrifice the America we believe in. And as long as I’m president, we won’t.”

* On the Bush tax cuts: “I refuse to renew them again.”

* “There’s nothing serious about a plan that claims to reduce the deficit by spending a trillion dollars on tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires. There’s nothing courageous about asking for sacrifice from those who can least afford it and don’t have any clout on Capitol Hill. And this is not a vision of the America I know.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-..._blog.html

[Born_A_Truman]

Pretty much lays out the difference in the vision of the future of our country.

Are we the America that takes care of the least of us or are we the "I got mine, fuck you" America that the Ryans of the world want?

[Cha]

“There’s nothing serious about a plan that claims to reduce the deficit by spending a trillion dollars on tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires. There’s nothing courageous about asking for sacrifice from those who can least afford it and don’t have any clout on Capitol Hill. And this is not a vision of the America I know.”

Adam Green and his whining testimonials look so pathetic to me..I'm so thankful that I keep myself informed and am not among those who get sucked in by every passing panic/fundraising attack from the leftbagger du jour.

[Born_A_Truman]

(04-13-2011 02:43 PM)Cha Wrote:  “There’s nothing serious about a plan that claims to reduce the deficit by spending a trillion dollars on tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires. There’s nothing courageous about asking for sacrifice from those who can least afford it and don’t have any clout on Capitol Hill. And this is not a vision of the America I know.”

Adam Green and his whining testimonials look so pathetic to me..I'm so thankful that I keep myself informed and am not among those who get sucked in by every passing panic/fundraising attack from the leftbagger du jour.

We need an "Adam" popcorn smilie.

Oh wait ........

We have one:

[Cha]

(04-13-2011 02:50 PM)Born_A_Truman Wrote:  

We need an "Adam" popcorn smilie.

Oh wait ........

We have one:

Another appropriate icon right next to the poor little one would be one.. rubbing his/her hands together in sinister glee imagining all the money they're about to rake in. Who gives a fook about the country when leftbaggers' sites can thrive?

[RoyGBiv]

Thank the heavens!

"There’s nothing serious about a plan that claims to reduce the deficit by spending a trillion dollars on tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires."

Someone FINALLY framed that properly. Tax cuts *are* spending. Why the Republicans have been allowed to get away with this since friggin' Reagan, I have no idea.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

(04-13-2011 06:25 PM)RoyGBiv Wrote:  Thank the heavens!

"There’s nothing serious about a plan that claims to reduce the deficit by spending a trillion dollars on tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires."

Someone FINALLY framed that properly. Tax cuts *are* spending. Why the Republicans have been allowed to get away with this since friggin' Reagan, I have no idea.

Yes! That line was great!

[Cha]

(04-13-2011 06:25 PM)RoyGBiv Wrote:  Thank the heavens!

"There’s nothing serious about a plan that claims to reduce the deficit by spending a trillion dollars on tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires."

Someone FINALLY framed that properly. Tax cuts *are* spending. Why the Republicans have been allowed to get away with this since friggin' Reagan, I have no idea.

"There’s nothing serious about a plan that claims to reduce the deficit by spending a trillion dollars on tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires."

Yes!

[There Is No Spoon]

Obama really gave the Democrats the upper hand on the budget issue. The Republicans can't win on this. If they win they lose and if they lose, well, they're losers.

[Eponine]

He was brilliant in the speech today. Outsmarted the Republicans.