{"id":8615,"date":"2012-08-15T11:05:37","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T18:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8615"},"modified":"2012-08-15T11:05:37","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T18:05:37","slug":"ryans-ayn-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/15\/ryans-ayn-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan’s Ayn Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"

The media almost universally refer to Paul Ryan as a deficit hawk and fiscal conservative.  I could not disagree more.  During the Bush Regime, Ryan voted for two Bush wars, two massive Bush tax cuts for the rich, Medicare Part D, and TARP, adding billions to the deficit, because all were off budget.  These are the votes of a fiscal wastrel, perhaps, but not a fiscal conservative.  In his infamous plan, he adds more welfare for the rich and trillions on tax cuts for the 1%.  He can hardly be considered a deficit hawk, because his plan increases the deficit.  I refer to to Ryan\u2019s plan as the Romney-Ryan plan, because Willard has said several times, including last Saturday when he announced Ryan as his pic for VP.  Now Romney is etching his sketch again.  Ryan\u2019s strategy is based on the philosophy of a misanthropic novelist, whose seminal work I found both sophomoric and sophistic.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"15Atlas\"EARLY in his Congressional career, Paul D. Ryan, the Wisconsin representative and presumptive Republican vice-presidential nominee, would give out copies of Ayn Rand\u2019s book \u201cAtlas Shrugged\u201d as Christmas presents. He described the novelist of heroic capitalism as \u201cthe reason I got into public service.\u201d<\/strong> But what would Rand think of Mr. Ryan? <\/p>\n

While Rand, an atheist, did enjoy a good Christmas celebration for its cheerful commercialism, she would have scoffed at the idea of public service. And though Mr. Ryan\u2019s advocacy of steep cuts in government spending would have pleased her, she would have vehemently opposed his social conservatism and hawkish foreign policy. She would have denounced Mr. Ryan as she denounced Ronald Reagan, for trying \u201cto take us back to the Middle Ages, via the unconstitutional union of religion and politics.\u201d <\/p>\n

Mr. Ryan\u2019s youthful, feverish embrace of Rand and his clumsy attempts to distance himself from her is more than the flip-flopping of an ambitious politician: it is a window into the ideological fissures at the heart of modern conservatism<\/strong>\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Rachel Maddow also said that Ryan is not a fiscal conservative and explains how Ayn Rand shaped his policies.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Rather than fiscal conservatives, Ryan and other Ayn Rand followers are Plutocons. That is government of, by and for the 1%.<\/font><\/p>\n

Lawrence O’Donnell also covered how Ryan is etching his sketch with respect to Ayn Rand.<\/font><\/p>\n

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As obvious as Ryan’s lies are, the one thing that makes his devotion to Rand most clear is the Romney-Ryan plan. It could not embody her heartless, misanthropic outlook more perfectly.<\/font><\/p>\n

About that plan, in my opinion, they are also lying that their Romney plan is quite different than their Ryan plan. One question that must be asked them both during the upcoming debates is this: What specific differences are there between the Romney plan and the Ryan plan?<\/strong>  They have both ducked that question several times already. Perhaps one of you petition experts might want to field a petition to the debate stations.<\/font><\/p>\n

In Rand\/Romney\/Ryan world people like Willard, the Koch Brothers and Sheldon Adelson, not you, are the rightful rulers of the US and the rightful beneficiaries of that rule.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The media almost universally refer to Paul Ryan as a deficit hawk and fiscal conservative.  I could not disagree more.  During the Bush Regime, Ryan voted for two Bush wars, two massive Bush tax cuts for the rich, Medicare Part D, and TARP, adding billions to the deficit, because all were off budget.  These are […]<\/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-8615","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\/8615","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=8615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}