From Fighting Bob

Ryan the cruel
By Ed Garvey

Paul Ryan is an earnest man who tries to impress the listener that he is, indeed, an "egg head" but a practical one. He wants you to know that he is smarter than Scott Walker, Charles Grassley, and John Kyle--smarter than the Speaker of the House, but he is also tougher.

With a warm smile he wants us to like him. "How much is that doggy in the window?" That will be his Achilles. He looks warm and cuddly but he is a pit bull not a poodle and people will see through the smiley face.

Progressives run for office to provide housing for the homeless, economic justice, good public education, health care as a right of citizenship. Not Paul Ryan.

No sir. Earnest Ryan is out to demonstrate that he is tough, hard, and ruthless. You know, he is a man of commerce and free markets, and he has lots of advice: pull yourself up by your bootstraps. While he might shy from literally showing up on his neighbor's porch with eviction papers on Christmas eve, he doesn't flinch at the thought of throwing millions of Americans into the street. Tears do not well when he is told that repeal of health care would literally kill thousands of people, that young people will die who could be saved.

Tough guy that Ryan. I wonder if he has visited the GM plant in Janesville to see how it looks closed. So as he hurried out of Marquette Law School he didn't have time (courage?) to list the programs he would cut in order to curry favor with the nuts in the Tea Party by cutting $84 billion from the current budget. Whoa Nelly.

Guys like Ryan spend us into poverty with wars we should never have fought, weapons we should not have built, ships that should have remained in port. Ryan will shove grandparents into poverty because he lacks the courage to tax the wealthy! Talk about profiles in courage. Ryan's book should be entitled Get Out of the Way, Old-timer.