A Triumphant Paul Ryan Is a Tragedy for the Rest of Us By Charles P. Pierce
Paul Ryan, the zombie-eyed granny-starver from Wisconsin, dropped by 30 Rock today to do a guest gig with the MSNBC Morning Zoo crew.
(And, not for nothing, but do we have to entertain these layabouts at Fenway on Opening Day this Friday? Don't the Sox have enough trouble right now without The Return Of Mike Barnicle, or "Willie" Geist getting cute all over the place? I have spared you the baseball chatter at the beginning of the clip above.)
It is, of course, gospel among the chattering classes that the zombie-eyed granny-starver is a smart, likable fellow who can sell his zombie-eyed granny-starving to the country because he is so smart and likable, and not at all a Gingrichian bomb-thrower, and so the country will come around to his zombie-eyed granny-starving because he can package it like the zombie-eyed granny-starver next door. Of course, what usually goes unmentioned is that the zombie-eyed granny-starver is a thin-skinned political charlatan without the courage to say flatly what he intends to do with the country's wealth, which is to shove even more of it upwards, thereby sending The Deficit — his only reason for living, if you listen to him — zooming up to somewhere deep in the heart of the Klingon Empire. And so Paul Ryan is very sad that the president has made all this something of a political issue:
"We proposed to increase annual federal spending from $3.6 trillion a year to $4.9 trillion over a 10-year period instead of the president's $5.5 trillion. Apparently the difference with this makes us social Darwinists," Ryan said. The Budget Committee chairman went on to describe the president's criticism as a "verbal tantrum" and say he believed Obama was employing "a rhetorical broadside to distract from the fact the president isn't proposing solutions."
No, you condescending zombie-eyed granny-starver, what makes you a "social Darwinist" is your utter disregard for what your budget will do to people who are not the hedge-fund cowboys who foot your bar bill. What makes you a political coward is that you won't honestly spell that out to the rest of the country.... http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/paul-ryan-morning-joe-7986907
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