{"id":10793,"date":"2013-08-05T02:27:03","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T09:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=10793"},"modified":"2013-08-05T02:27:03","modified_gmt":"2013-08-05T09:27:03","slug":"republicans-choked-on-ryans-bile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/05\/republicans-choked-on-ryans-bile\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Choked on Ryan’s Bile"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Republican leadership goose-stepped into the House chamber, shortly before attending to what Republicans do best: vacation.  They expected easy passage on a measure in support of one of their two goals: the transfer of wealth from the poor and middle classes to billionaires.  Much to their chagrin, hardly anyone showed up.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"RyanBendOver\"Amid the morass of Washington\u2019s endless budget fights there was a moment of sweet revelation last week: House Republicans choked outright when they failed to muster support for the draconian dreams of Paul Ryan<\/strong>, the Wisconsin legislator and fabled budget hawk who last year ran for vice president on a program of unforgiving fiscal austerity that his colleagues suddenly found too politically risky. <\/p>\n

A $44 billion measure based on the tooth-and-claw Ryan blueprint approved by the same House just three months ago had to be yanked from the floor when not enough Republicans showed up to vote yes. An embarrassed leadership was forced to concede that the size of the proposal\u2019s cuts to transportation, housing and urban development<\/strong> had become intolerable even to the fiscal zealots among the rank and file, who no longer had the stomach to walk the austerity talk. <\/p>\n

The embarrassment was deserved. The leadership offered hollow excuses about a tight legislative calendar, but the truth was more accurately explained by Harold Rogers, the Republican appropriations chairman and no slouch as a budget hawk. The frustrated lawmaker underlined the moment by noting: \u201cThe House has made its choice: sequestration \u2014 and its unrealistic and ill-conceived discretionary cuts \u2014 must be brought to an end.\u201d <\/p>\n

The retreat hardly settled the larger budget wars, which remain noxious. The Republicans have not abandoned their threats to bring government to a halt, to stage-manage another federal debt crisis, and, of course, to fiscally strangle the law of the land known as Obamacare<\/strong>\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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I disagree with the author\u2019s contention that Harold Rogers (R-NC) explained this correctly. In my opinion, the key factor was timing. Even the "fiscal zealots among the rank and file" feared going home for summer recess and having to explain their support of 1% greed to local residents, even conservative ones, whose lives and livelihoods will be impaired by the damage the cuts would do to transportation, housing and urban development. So instead of voting, they used the Republican method, also known as the cowards’ way out.  They snuck out of town.<\/font><\/p>\n

Ryan does not care who he hurts, as he goose-steps behind Ayn Rand. He even held a budget hearing on poverty with no input from poor people, as Melissa Harris Perry explains in her open letter to him.<\/font><\/p>\n

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When it comes to opinions, Paul Ryan, and the Republican Party, measure their value by one metric alone: the net worth of the person who has the opinion. This is true, because Republicans equate financial worth with personal worth.<\/font><\/p>\n

So don’t think for a minute that caving-in means a change of heart. Republicans are expert at using fear to motivate their sheeple, and they spread that fear using lies. However, they are also motivated by fear.  What they fear is the truth.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Republican leadership goose-stepped into the House chamber, shortly before attending to what Republicans do best: vacation.  They expected easy passage on a measure in support of one of their two goals: the transfer of wealth from the poor and middle classes to billionaires.  Much to their chagrin, hardly anyone showed up. Amid the morass […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}