crussmith2
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Paul Ryan Randian Super-Hero of Individual Self-Reliance and Working Class Warrior against government debt, waste, and intrusiveness whose actual life is a testament to the precise opposite values. As Charles Pierce and Joan Walsh document, not only was Ryan raised in a rich family and not only has he spent his entire adult life on the public payroll, but he has relied, and continues to rely, on various forms of government help in climbing every rung on his educational and careerist ladder. His claim to fiscal conservatism is even more laughable, as he voted FOR virtually every program that has piled up debt over the past decade, including the Iraq War (not just its commencement but its limitless continuation), the Wall Street bailout, Medicare Part D, Endless War in Afghanistan, and in the midst of all of that Bush tax cuts.
Perhaps most ludicrous of all is the notion that hes some sort of advocate for restrained federal government power. As Antiwar.coms John Glaser documented today, Ryan has continuously voted in favor of measures to expand all sorts of intrusive federal power, including making the PATRIOT Act permanent, enacting the Military Commissions Act to provide indefinite detention with no habeas corpus rights, implementing the Protect America Act to massively expand the U.S. Governments power to eavesdrop on Americans without warrants, supporting a federal Constitutional amendment to deny same-sex couples the right to marry along with a law banning the ability of gay couples in D.C. to adopt children and the continuation of Dont Ask/Dont Tell, a Constitutional amendment to criminalize flag burning, and almost every proposed measure to restrict abortion rights.
The Right?s brittle heroes - Salon.com
Perhaps most ludicrous of all is the notion that hes some sort of advocate for restrained federal government power. As Antiwar.coms John Glaser documented today, Ryan has continuously voted in favor of measures to expand all sorts of intrusive federal power, including making the PATRIOT Act permanent, enacting the Military Commissions Act to provide indefinite detention with no habeas corpus rights, implementing the Protect America Act to massively expand the U.S. Governments power to eavesdrop on Americans without warrants, supporting a federal Constitutional amendment to deny same-sex couples the right to marry along with a law banning the ability of gay couples in D.C. to adopt children and the continuation of Dont Ask/Dont Tell, a Constitutional amendment to criminalize flag burning, and almost every proposed measure to restrict abortion rights.
The Right?s brittle heroes - Salon.com