Politics on the Hudson

the first threshold for a VP pick is that he is qualified to be president on day one…Ryan has
zero foreign policy experience…and if Obama’s critics maintain he has never worked in the
private sector the same can be said for ryan….he has always been in politics…but Ryan’s
budget proposal is what will doom this republican ticket..the cuts to non defense discretionary
spending will gut prograses that even tea partiers want and need….his plan to reduce medicare
to a voucher system which means that buying a health insurance policy becomes a function
of each individual spending the voucher wisely will mean a 6500 increase in health care costs
over the next decade…remember the tea party signs “keep your hands off my medicare”
not so much…Once voters understand that this guy is trying to enact what Ayn Rand wanted
in her right wing libertarian view of the world which is that everyman for himself controls..and
that the government should simply disappear they will reject both he and Romney…Ryan is
a lighting rod whose policies would devastate the middle class and who on top of it all even
though he pretends to be a budget cutter and deficit hawk voted for all the bush spending including the un paid for medicare part D program….this ticket will get slammed in ohio
and florida big time…the pick was Rubio…but Romney got bullied by bill Krystol..now they
get the conversation that they want but they lost the election

The Republican Party’s main failing is their timidity in publicly and adamantly excoriating the outrageous, bloated, and dangerous explosion of the welfare state. If they took that issue directly and cogently to the public, instead of letting the Dems point only to Medicare, they would win the country in a landslide.

A “C” in Economics 101 from Lehigh hardly qualifies one to spend a career facilely expounding on national fiscal issues.

And is Chris Gibson really in a toss-up reelection campaign? Don’t bet on it.

How he can rationally think that Paul Ryan will succeed in reducing the deficit when he is partly responsible for the exploding debt. He has been in Congress for 14 years and the debt has exploded, even when his party was in charge.

Here is the irony of the choice for the GOP. They have to vote for a guy who passed a near universal health care law in his state (it is the model for Obamacare) with a VP nominee that hates that MA plan. Then, with a straight face, they have to vote for a VP nominee that voted for the Bush tax cuts (over a $1 trillion in lost revenue), an unfunded War in Iraq ($805 billion-gee that is about the cost of the stimulus which was 1/3 tax cuts), unfunded Medicare prescription drug coverage ($1 trillion), TARP ($700 billion), and the auto bailout (about $50 billion).

Just like Nan Hayworth, Mitt and Paul both want to repeal Obamacare, which will cause drug costs to go up for seniors, throw adult kids off their parents health insurance, deny millions access to affordable health insurance, and allow insurance companies to deny people coverage if they have a pre-existing condition.

Ryan voted against the Fair Pay Act for women. Mitt won’t even say if he would have signed it. Just like Nan Hayworth, both Mitt and Paul want to end federal funding of Planned Parenthood and deny healthcare access to millions of women around the nation. Just like Nan Hayworth, Mitt and Paul are also ok with insurance companies charging women more for health care coverage and don’t seem to mind that preventative care, like mammograms or physicals, will be out of pocket either. I guess they would rather let the system absorb the expense of treating breast cancer rather than making the system absorb the cost of a mammogram.

Just like Nan Hayworth, Mitt and Paul are opposed to federal recognition of marriage rights for gays and lesbians and would keep DOMA in place. Just like Nan Hayworth, Mitt and Paul want to end Medicare as we know and pay for it by giving huge tax breaks to themselves.

Yeah, I’d say these folks are pretty radical and would be bad for the nation. Let’s repeal and replace Nan Hayworth with Sean Patrick Maloney. Let’s keep moving forward with Obama/Biden instead of the “Go Back” team of Mitt and Paul.

Go Mitt! With Obama, we’ll soon be Norway without the oil, thus bankrupt. Plus, get rid of every Democrat locally or they’ll do it all by themselves.

how about 3rd in my class….no c’s..but I digress…Ryan voted for every single bush spending
increase..now he claims it hurt him to do it? where was this fiscal conservative when bush
started two wars and didn’t pay for them….ryan voted for both…and how about the bush
medicare drug plan …ryan again voted for that plan too…along with the bush tax cuts all of
which contributed far more to the deficit than the one shot stimulus that limbaugh and his
ilk keep bitching about…your problem is you can’t add…the cuts proposed by romney on
top of not letting the bush tax cuts expire CANNOT be paid for by closing loopholes in the
tax code because there are not enough loopholes…but you can be guaranteed that your
mortgage interest deduction will be gone and that is the same thinf for the middle class
as a tax increase…ryan came to dc working for jack kemp…he is a supply side fanatic
who believes in the laffer curve….that has been shown not to work twice in the last 25 years
and the deregulation that romney and he propose but not specifically tell you about is also
destructive..want some more poison in the water supply or in your kids hamburgers..
this election will be about choices and once independent voters find out what it means to
them in the long run..and how it really won’t fix the problem unless a simpson bowles like
plan is passed, (which ryan also dissented from) romney looses big time..

said in a different way ,..we need regulation sufficient to protect the public from bad food
bad water bad drywall bad toys bad banking etc…but not so much as to thwart small businesses
from engaging in expansion and job creation

No “origies” in D.C., but Orioles in Baltimore. And all the libraries carry Darwin’s “Origies of the Species.”