Paul Ryan's Authoritarian Freakout: Losing Control of Budget Vote, Congressman Screeches 'Shut it Down' | The Nation

Paul Ryan's Authoritarian Freakout: Losing Control of Budget Vote, Congressman Screeches 'Shut it Down' | The Nation

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Pampered Paul wants a pity party because his traitorous assault on the Medicare of Generations X & Y caustic opposition. Paul Ryan = Generation X Judas.

The Budget Committee chair was desperate to close the vote before any more Democrats could switch from “no” votes to those declarations of “present.” (Sixteen Democrats were finally record as voting “no.” If just two of them had cast mischievous “yes” votes while the rest switched to present, the Republicans would have been stuck with a plan that made drastic cuts to government programs, but that did not so smoothly implement Ryan’s scheme for a further redistribution of the wealth upward.)

“Shut it down!” screeched Ryan. “Shut it down!”

The Wisconsin congressman was determined to stop the voting process immediately.

Big Brother was not about to lose control of the process he had rigged to deliver for his political benefactors.

He needed to prevent a bold act of dissent that exposed his hypocrisy.

And he succeeded.

But not without revealing himself as an authoritarian who was not about to let his best-laid plans be upset by an act of creative rebellion.

Ayn Rand once wrote: “Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.”

Paul Ryan’s power-lust was certainly on display Friday. As for stupidity, well, Ryan certainly thinks that most Americans, and most Republicans, are stupid enough to fall for his power grab.

He’s definitely wrong about the American people; polls show they are overwhelmingly opposed to any plans that assault Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
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