Daniel Henniger, writing in the Wall Street Journal-a once great paper that has been destroyed by Rupert Murdoch-says that the Obama administration is trying to destroy Paul Ryan. Claiming that Democrats have adopted the Cold War strategy of “launch on warning” he says:
With the presidential battle begun, the Obama campaign has revived the Cold War nuclear strategy of launch on warning. At any suggestion that a conservative idea might be threatening its ideological fortress, the American left now launches ICBMs of rhetorical destruction.
So it was after the Supreme Court’s hearings on the Obama Affordable Care Act, which put in jeopardy the federal command to buy health insurance. After the president green-flagged the assault, the Supreme Court’s “legitimacy” was in play. The Roberts Court, wrote one blogger, is “on trial.”
On current course, House GOP Budget Chairman Paul Ryan himself may exhaust their entire thermonuclear arsenal before November. Once again, the Campaigner in Chief threw the switch himself, calling the Ryan House budget “social Darwinism,” “a Trojan horse” and “antithetical to our entire history.” Rev. Samuel Rodriquez of the Hispanic Evangelical Association said the poor would be “budget-war collateral damage.”
Of course Henniger left out one important detail-because it would have ruined his argument: Namely, that if anyone deserves to be destroyed-rhetorically or otherwise-it is Paul Ryan.
Paul Ryan is the worst kind of hypocrite. He takes a budget that can only be described as draconian-and positively evil-and wraps it in the shrouds of religious obligation. Claiming that “ the Catholic Church’s “social magisterium” had informed his House budget. One goal of that teaching, he said, is to prevent the poor from staying poor. Nor, he added, should individuals become lifelong dependents of their government.”
Ryan, being the worthless excuse of a human being that he is-knows exactly what he is doing with that statement. Besides the fact that it is not true-and ignoring the fact that if its immoral to help the poor, its probably doubly immoral to absolutely gut programs for poor and working Americans, while significantly boosting after tax income for wealthy Americans . Ryan is not making that statement because he believes he is helping the poor-he is saying a “dog whistle” phrase that will strike a chord with his tricorner hat wearing douchebag supporters. “People just want to suck off the government tit”-that’s what he is really saying.
Look at the graph closely. Ryan’s budget doesn’t just rob from the poor and give to the rich-it rapes them first, then steals from them.
And Ryan wants you to believe that this a good thing for them. He falls back on the rhetoric that Bush used-just let the churches do it:
To me, the principle of subsidiarity . . . meaning government closest to the people governs best . . . where we, through our civic organizations, through our churches, through our charities, through all of our different groups where we interact with people as a community, that’s how we advance the common good. By not having big government crowd out civic society, but by having enough space in our communities so that we can interact with each other, and take care of people who are down and out in our communities.
We saw how well THAT worked in the last decade, didn’t we? And where was the voice of the Church while greedy, heartless businessmen were forcing people out of their homes? Nowhere to be found-save for getting the obligatory prayer about abortion in the Sunday intentions.
Henniger can’t escape the fact that Ryan’s budget does exactly what he purports to be against-it raises the deficit. And to wrap that kind of lie in religious clothing is an even worse kind of evil.
Just because Ryan puts on a mild manner appearance-does not make him any less evil. Or any less deserving of a baseball bat to the head. And Henniger is making league with that evil-in an equally hypocritical way.