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Meh: Romney Picks Ryan

Romney picks Ryan for VP.

He could have chosen better. He could have chosen worse.

Romney will get a lot of praise for his decision from right-of-center commentators.

All I have to say is, "Meh."

Update: Paul Ryan explains his votes for TARP, bailouts and tax on AIG bonuses:

You’ve got to remember Obama won my district. Dukakis and Gore won my district. Clinton won my district. So I don’t come from, you know, a red area.

Because God is a Marxist...

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Not only is Paul Ryan trying to kill your grandma, but he also hates God ― or something.

I know that's true because the well-paid Soros stooges at Think Progress say it's so.

Somehow, the Soros stooges at Think Progress managed to track down some Soros stooges at Faith in Public Life (a hard-left strategy center for the "faith community"):

Four members affiliated with the religious group Faith In Public Life held a brief press conference during FFC’s afternoon intermission to denounce the GOP’s adherence to the philosophies of anti-government, anti-religion author Ayn Rand. The leaders — Rev. Jennifer Butler, Jim Wallis, Rev. Derrick Harkins, and Father Clete Kiley — asserted that the GOP efforts to cut funding from many anti-poverty programs while balancing the budget on the backs of the poorest Americans were not in line with Christian values

Inevitable conclusion: Paul Ryan and the rest of the Republican Party are anti-Christian, anti-God, pro-anarchy, pro-poverty, Satan-loving baby eaters. And they still want to kill your grandma. (Have you checked on her today?)

I wonder if the pocket-picking progressives at Think Progress and Faith in Public Life have ever picked up a Bible. Their good buddies from Faithful America mockingly offered Paul Ryan a copy, but have they read the Bible for themselves? How about this part:

"Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver."

2 Corinthians 9:7

Or this one:

"A good person leaves an inheritance for their children’s children, but a sinner’s wealth is stored up for the righteous."

Proverbs 13:22

Or this:

"For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat."

2 Thessalonians 3:10

Are these Biblical principles compatible with the foundations of the Obama agenda?

Very few things are as irritating as Marxists and other left-wingers who try to use government to force their weird quasi-religious ideas on the rest of us. Aren't they supposed to be chasing Christians and Christian values out of the public square?

Head over to LCR for details on the relationship between these "religious leaders," and the hard left.

And don't miss this: Fr. Robert A. Sirico destroys the argument that Christians should genuflect to the welfare state.

Hat tip: Memeorandum

The Ostrich Party

Joe Nocera is a columnist at the New York Times, he's a business commentator for NPR, and he's a former Newsweek editor...

He's not a poster child for the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.

Today he took to the pages of the Gray Lady to offer sharp criticism of Paul Ryan's plan. He calls Ryan's "wrongheaded," "mean-spirited ," "absurd," and says it will make "health care far less affordable for millions of people."

BUT...

He praises Paul Ryan (very sparingly) and suggests that we can no longer afford to dismiss serious proposals for Medicare reform with a patellar reflex kick, even if those grody, gross, nasty, disgusting conservatives are at the negotiating table.

To my ears, that sounds like fairly reasonable left-of-center advice from a loyally progressive point of view.

But Nocera's op-ed is not nearly shrill enough for the professional left. Here are some of their reactions:

Paul Krugman, NYT:

...while some people are still trying to praise Ryan for starting a useful conversation, the reality is that he’s totally unwilling to let facts enter the debate. Look at his exchange with Ezra Klein over health care costs: this is not the sound of a sincere, open-minded guy.

Hullabaloo:

This is the new columnist for the NY Times, not some windbag blogger. And he's spouting the most shallow analysis of the current Medicare debate possible. And, sadly, it's probably going to have an influence on the way the Villagers see it.

No More Mister Nice Blog:

...the Republicans will never negotiate in good faith. You can't show them numbers demonstrating that their assumptions are wrong, because their numbers can't be wrong -- the God of the Free Market would not forsake her people. Either that or the God of the Free Market would not forsake anyone who did not deserve to be forsaken. They don't negotiate from our reality -- the one we think of as everyone's common reality. They're completely faith-based.

Washington Monthly:

"Nocera wants to give Ryan credit for noticing problems with [Medicare]. But that’s not just overly generous, it’s also setting the bar for seriousness way too low."

Comments at The Mahablog:

Dear Joe Nocera,

Would you start a serious debate with the economic terrorists who held your family hostage at the point where they tell you that no matter what you offer, the starting point is the your Grandparents are [f*ckng] goners?

If the zealots of the hard left insist on keeping their heads deeply buried (or if they choose to cannibalize anyone from their camp who dares to treat conservatives like human beings) that's their prerogative. But it's time for them to get out of the way and let the adults get down to business.

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Bill Clinton vs The Do-Nothing Democrats

I'm not going to give Slick Willie too much credit, but Bill Clinton and Paul Ryan had a remarkable conversation:

“So anyway, I told them before you got here, I said I’m glad we won this race in New York,” Clinton told Ryan, when the two met backstage at a forum on the national debt held by the Pete Peterson Foundation. But he added, “I hope Democrats don’t use this as an excuse to do nothing.”

Ryan told Clinton he fears that now nothing will get done in Washington.

“My guess is it’s going to sink into paralysis is what’s going to happen. And you know the math. It’s just, I mean, we knew we were putting ourselves out there. You gotta start this. You gotta get out there. You gotta get this thing moving,” Ryan said.

Clinton told Ryan that if he ever wanted to talk about it, he should “give me a call.” Ryan said he would.

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Mr. Clinton, with some passion, returned to the topic at the end of an hour-long interview. “I think the Democrats are going to have to be willing to give up, maybe, some short-term political gain by whipping up fears on some of these things — if it’s a reasonable Social Security proposal, a reasonable Medicare proposal. We’ve got to deal with these things. You cannot have health care devour the economy.”

~~~

The last thing Obama, Reid, and Schumer want before the election is one of their own elder statesmen — one who’s personally popular and famous for budget-balancing, no less — pressuring them to inch out on the Medicare limb that’s cracking under Ryan. So … why would he do it? Could be that he’s earnestly concerned about the Medicare time bomb and appreciates Ryan’s leadership on it...

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Could the Democrats be persuaded to take the entitlement crises seriously?

Nah!

Their Hopium addiction is incurable.

May the best demagogues win!

Hat tip: Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion

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