Cagey Obama Sets an Election Trap for Paul Ryan and the Koch Brothers

[eridani]

I think this is a very good approach, and hope he will not compromise on the 2012 budget

http://www.truth-out.org/cagey-obama-sets-election-trap-paul-ryan-and-koch-brothers/1303926865

By baiting Ryan to present his budget plan before the administration unveiled its own, Obama deftly played Ryan's own star-pupil, parent-pleasing nature against the eager Wisconsinite. When the president unveiled his own budget plan at a televised speech two weeks ago in Washington, he invited Ryan as his guest, and then issued a broadside against Ryan's plan, saying it was "less about reducing the deficit than it is about changing the basic social compact in America."

"There's nothing serious about a plan that claims to reduce the deficit by spending a trillion dollars on tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires," Obama continued, as Ryan looked helpless on. "And I don't think there's anything courageous about asking for sacrifice from those who can least afford it and don't have any clout on Capitol Hill. That's not a vision of the America I know."

The Republican was clearly taken aback. "When the president reached out to ask us to attend his speech, we were expecting an olive branch," Ryantold McClatchy Newspapers. "Instead, his speech was excessively partisan, dramatically inaccurate, and hopelessly inadequate to address our fiscal crisis. What we heard today was not fiscal leadership from our commander-in-chief; we heard a political broadside from our campaigner-in-chief."

Since then, Obama has continued to hammer away at Ryan. On the campaign trail in California, Obama used the words "fairly radical" to describe the Ryan plan. "I wouldn't call it particularly courageous," Obama said. And a CBS News open mic caught Obama, the day after the president's budget speech, going after Ryan personally. McClatchy's Steve Thomma reported Obama's remarksthis way:

[quaker bill]

1. K&R

[rasputin1952]

2. This is where the D's had better start doing some serious work...

it is imperative to challenge Ryan and the likes of him. Every time the GOP is challenged, and people actually get to see what they are proposing, they are getting hammered.

On the federal, state and local levels, Radical Republicans must be challenged...the only reason they have gotten any of their agenda through anywhere, it is because the media, and the good people of districts and states have not challenged the complete idiocy of these "plans".

The "plan" is, the ulra-wealthy control society...everyone else is a servant/serf/peon. Even die hard R's won't stand for that, only the radical element that hopes to be a part of "the ruling class".

[fasttense]

3. Well, our corporate aristocracy is about to dump hundreds of millions of dollars into

advertising to make the pile of crap Ryan dumped as his "budget" look like roses. Let's see how many Americans will be fooled by advertisement.

And All of this was brought to you by the US Supreme Court.

[Scuba]

4. Now if he'd only push the Progressive Caucus Budget

The Peoples Budget


http://cpc.grijalva.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=70

http://grijalva.house.gov/uploads/The%20CPC%20FY2012%20 ...


This needs to be pushed as the path to the 2012 elections and future of America. Not perfect, but such a striking contrast with the Ryan disaster will be easy to explain to the public.


Here's Rachel's coverage last week... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel ... /


Here's the Progressive Caucus website.... http://cpc.grijalva.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=70

[ClassWarrior]

5. When he actually works a message, the Prez is brilliant.

Thank you for nailing this weasel to the wall, Mr. President.

NGU.