Damn, we love this guy. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) guested on Up Front with Mike Gousha this weekend. Here’s what he had to say about the Greek meltdown and the ongoing European financial crisis.
Damn, we love this guy.
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) guested on Up Front with Mike Gousha this weekend. Here’s what he had to say about the Greek meltdown and the ongoing European financial crisis:
“I am enormously concerned. First of all, Greek contagion can spread to some of these other countries like you said. What this basically is… It is so ironic coming from the cradle of Western Civilization. What we are seeing is the failure of European socialism and social welfare states. What is basically happening here is this sovereign debt crisis could come over and spread to us. We’ve got to make sure we put in the right kind of fiscal controls, the right kind of balancing to prevent this from happening. Because what’s happening is the markets are questioning the viablility of sovereign debt. The markets are questioning whether or not governments are going to be able to live up to all the promises and debt that they have racked up… Sooner or later you run out of spending other people’s money with welfare states.”
Ryan’s smart as a whip. He’s a great extemporaneous speaker (translation: doesn’t need a Teleprompter). He’s telegenic. And he’s willing to call the Obama administration a “regime.” Paul Ryan 2012. We like the sound of that.
Ryan’s smart as a whip. He’s a great extemporaneous speaker (translation: doesn’t need a Teleprompter). He’s telegenic. And he’s willing to call the Obama administration a “regime.”
Democrat Louise Slaughter, namesake of the aptly named Slaughter Solution, is in contention to take the Dumbest Member of Congress title away from Nancy Pelosi.
In this clip, Republican Paul Ryan tries to explain his healthcare solution. In fact, he tries repeatedly. But Slaughter is either too dumb to understand what he’s saying or she plays dumb.
Democrat Louise Slaughter, namesake of the aptly named Slaughter Solution, is in contention to take the Dumbest Member of Congress title away from Nancy Pelosi.
In this clip, Republican Paul Ryan tries to explain his healthcare solution. In fact, he tries repeatedly. But Slaughter is either too dumb to understand what he’s saying or she plays dumb.
We think it’s the former, because she eventually turns for help to Democrat Congressman Xavier Becerra, but he’s also too dense to get it.
You could almost hear the collective gasp of horror that came from Democrats in the room. And if were not mistaken, Nancy Pelosi came down with a bad case of the vapors.
Republican Paul Ryan told the ObamaCare Summit that Washington doesn’t have all the answers.
You could almost hear the collective gasp of horror that came from Democrats in the room. And if were not mistaken, Nancy Pelosi came down with a bad case of the vapors.
Republican Congressman Paul Ryan schooling two MSNBC hosts about ObamaCare. It’s not just that they’re ignorant, it’s that they’re proudly ignorant.
This is a thing of beauty – Republican Congressman Paul Ryan schooling two MSNBC hosts about ObamaCare. It’s not just that they’re ignorant, it’s that they’re proudly ignorant. If you want to skip ahead to minute 03:28, it really gets good when Katrina Vanden Heuvel joins the discussion to demonstrate her complete ignorance.
Katrina Vanden Heuvel: You have good government-plan health care. Why shouldnt all Americans have what you have?
Congressman Paul Ryan: I have good private-sector healthcare. We do not have a public option. The federal employee plan lists a number of private plans to choose from to select and my employer, the taxpayer, pays for a portion of these private plans. There is no public plan option in the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program. You are mistaken on that point. My Patients Choice Act that I’ve introduced with Congressman Nunes, Senators Burr and Coburn actually proposes just what youre suggesting: give people the ability, in State-based exchanges, to have a plan just like what we have here in Congress. A private health care plan that’s actuarially equivalent to what we in Congress have. We actually had a vote in the House Ways and Means Committee on an amendment I offered with Congressman Dean Heller which said, “Let’s put members of Congress in this public health care plan so that we can experience the same thing we want to impose on the rest of the country.” You know what? That amendment failed on nearly a party-line vote.
Katrina Vanden Heuvel: Competition is at the heart of America. To deny Americans competition by denying them the option of a public plan seems to me to be un-American.
Congressman Paul Ryan: What’s weird about that line right there, Katrina, is that I know you and others are very much in favor of a single-payer plan, which is obviously to deny competition and have the government run it all. What’s concerning about this debate with me is that you’re using capitalist rhetoric to try and move a plan that is inherently anti-market. The problem is that the facts tell us this: A public plan option quickly becomes a government-run monopoly. The actuaries are telling us is that in a few short years, the public plan option displaces the private sector, employers dump their employees on the public plan and then they have no choices but the public plan. And so, let’s not try to sell a government-run plan using free market rhetoric. Let’s have an honest debate about what this bill is all about.
Honest debate on MSNBC? Get serious, Congressman Paul Ryan.
