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To: i-node who wrote (608056)	4/17/2011 2:56:54 PM
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The GOP continues its downward descent into Hell! Paul Ryan Can Dish It Out, But He Can't Take It — Jamison Foser politicalcorrection.org Ever since President Obama's budget speech on Wednesday, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) has been complaining that the president's speech was "excessively partisan." His press release blasting the speech led with complaints of partisanship and called the address "a political broadside from our campaigner-in-chief." In his Washington Post op-ed, Ryan described the speech as "rhetorically heated." According to today's Post, "Ryan was furious. The speech 'was extremely political, very partisan,' he fumed to TV host Charlie Rose." And, according to The Hill, Ryan's complaints continued in a speech to a conservative organization on Thursday: House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said President Obama descended into a "partisan mosh pit" with his deficit-reduction speech... Ryan, speaking Thursday at an event sponsored by the conservative nonprofit e21, said Obama seriously damaged the chances for reaching a bipartisan deficit deal because of the tenor - and substance - of Wednesday's remarks. [...] "We didn't expect it from the commander in chief," said Ryan, who attended the speech at George Washington University at Obama's invitation. "When the commander in chief brings himself down to level of the partisan mosh pit that we have been in, that we are in, it makes it more difficult to bring that kind of leadership." And what did President Obama do to hurt Paul Ryan's feelings? Simple: Obama criticized Ryan's policy preferences. That's it. That, according to Paul Ryan, constitutes excessive partisanship. Apparently, Obama was supposed to praise ideas with which he disagrees. With that in mind, let's take a look at Ryan's budget document, shall we? On page 5, Ryan writes: "Where the President has failed, House Republicans will lead." No partisanship there! On page 10, Ryan writes: "At a time when the free-market foundations of the American economy were in desperate need of restoration and repair, the last Congress took actions that further undermined them. The President and his party's leaders embarked on a stimulus spending spree that added hundreds of billions of dollars to the debt, yet failed to deliver on its promises to create jobs. Acute economic hardship was exploited to enact unprecedented expansions of government power." Page 35: "Since his inauguration, the President has promoted a heavy-handed compliance culture in the energy sector, brimming with regulations and reckless spending on government-appointed winners and losers. Instead of promoting policy rooted in innovation and the entrepreneurial strength of American business, the President's agenda has consolidated decision-making in Washington through a toxic mix of increased spending and more regulations." Page 36: "This budget would roll back federal intervention and expensive corporate-welfare funding directed to the president's allied industries." Page 43: "While the President and his party's leaders engaged in their stimulus spending spree, they explicitly defunded this critical program. Refusing to reauthorize the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, the President and his party's policies are restricting parental options and denying low-income students access to a high-quality education in the nation's capital." Page 56: "The insistence by the President and his party's leaders on spending money the government does not have has yielded trillion-dollar deficits now and into the future." Page 57: "By continuing Washington's spending spree, the President's budget adds $13 trillion dollars to the debt over the next decade. Under his budget, debt held by the public would double by 2016 compared with the President's first year in office, and triple by the end of the budget window. By failing to address the unsustainable growth of autopilot spending programs, the President's budget commits this nation to a crushing burden of debt." Ryan's budget document is also loaded with references to things like "job-destroying tax hikes" allegedly contained in last year's health care reform — attacks on Democratic policies every bit as harsh as the "excessive partisanship" Ryan complains about when President Obama criticizes GOP policies. The bottom line is that Paul Ryan's deeply unserious budget document was chock-full of attacks on policies supported by President Obama and congressional Democrats. But progressives didn't react to Ryan's budget by whining about partisanship. Instead, they focused on his bogus claims and fantasyland projections and on his plan to dismantle Medicare in order to pay for tax cuts for the rich.