The ‘Party of No’ May Now Rate a New Label

[marmar]

from Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality:



The ‘Party of No’ May Now Rate a New Label
March 13, 2010

Republicans in Congress have introduced a breathtaking new budget plan that would essentially put America’s plutocracy on steroids.

By Sam Pizzigati


The Republican Party, critics like to quip, has become the “party of no.” That tag no longer works. The GOP has now become, thanks to a sweeping new legislative proposal from the ranking Republican on the House Budget Committee, the “party of whoa” — as in, “Whoa, they can’t be serious.”

Rep. Paul Ryan could hardly be more serious. Admirers consider this lawmaker from Wisconsin the top GOP “idea man” in Congress, and Ryan’s proposed new Roadmap for America’s Future is certainly advancing one whopper of an idea.

In a nutshell: With one in ten Americans jobless and one in eight home mortgages delinquent, Rep. Ryan wants to raise taxes on the middle class and slash them on the rich, shove Social Security retirement savings onto Wall Street, and hand insurance companies even more control over the nation’s health care.

You won’t find, of course, a hint of any of this at the ever so slick Web presence House Republicans have created to pitch Rep. Ryan’s Roadmap. On the Web, and in all the publicity for this new gameplan for America, an earnest but always genial Ryan presents his Roadmap as “a comprehensive, alternative approach to the Nation’s most pressing domestic priorities.” .........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://toomuchonline.org/the-%e2%80%98party-of-no%e2%80%99-may-now-rate-a-new-label/

[FreakinDJ]

1. More of the same "FAILED Policies" that caused the Recession

What an absolutely BRILLIANT Idea

[babylonsister]

2. The party of 'whoa, they can't be serious!' I like it! nt

[ChicagoSuz219]

3. Good...

...now it will be OUR chance to be the Party of NO, for a change...

[TxVietVet]

4. The little rich prick

happens to be my representative. He's a bible thumping worm that was born with a silver spoon in his a$$. conservanazis like to heap praise on him and say he's got a good chance at being the new choice for conservanazi candidate for president, because he's so good looking, has a flock of kids, and is so full of conservanazi bu$hit.

I sent the dildo Ryan a letter complaining about the bu$h regime's failure to help the VA and veterans at time of war. The system was underfunded on purpose by the conservanazis. His office sent me a reply, which I wished I would have kept, that stated he believed that the only veterans who were wounded in actual combat should be allowed VA health benenfits. You see, rich conservanazis like him never serve and believe any money given to other-than-rich-people is an "entitlement or welfare".

Every time I see that goofy conservanazi, I want to puke. :puke:

[FreakinDJ]

6. My father is at the VA home - "Old Soldier's Home"

1 of the few remaining WWII vets still alive - (Guadalcanal, Leyte Gulf, sent home on a hospital ship)

and they have cut ALL medical services. We had to take him to a private doctor, sign him up for medical, and pay the difference to get a cyst on his kidney drained.

[depakid]

5. This is what Dems in the administration and Congress get for enabling and legitimizing Republicans

rather than relegating them to the fringe where they belong.


Anyone still think it's worth engaging them?