Think Progress Excerpt:
ThinkProgress has now learned of another attendee addressing the Koch meeting: House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI). Ryan’s office confirmed his attendance this afternoon to ThinkProgress. Ryan, who has a long record of flying off to junkets for groups of bankers like the Club for Growth, is pushing forward with radical cuts to Medicare and Social Security in his “Roadmap for America’s Future.” In line with Koch’s peculiar supply-side side ideology of soaking the the poor, Ryan’s budget idea also calls for increasing taxes on the middle class, while cutting them for the rich. Other Republican legislators were at the event, including Majority Leader Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA).
ThinkProgress revealed a partial list of the attendees, including GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain, Americans for Prosperity officials like Alan Cobb, political consultant Michael Goldfarb, longtime lobbyist Nancy Pfotenhauer, and a number of donors, including Home Depot founder Ken Langone and Rock County billionaire heiress Diane Hendricks. Read more here.
"Tell us something, Mr Ryan. As a public servant, how does attending this meeting serve the public at large? You are not a private citizen, free to attend whatever peaceable assemblies you wish. You are a public servant, and you must act in the best interests of the public, not of your ideologically like-minded friends." -- Wayne A. Schneider, comment at TP
The Nation Excerpt:
Greenpeace’s Davies, though cautious, felt buoyed by the momentum on the left’s side: “I think it’s possible to keep drawing scrutiny to the Tea Party Congress by teaching voters to look for the corporate billionaire-backed tentacles behind the scenes. We can also put pressure on those congressmen by finding ways to ask them, very publicly, what they owe the Kochs.
As Tea Party Koch brothers made an extra $11 billion in recent years, they laid off thousands.
This should put it in clear perspective who Ryan was speaking for in his SOTU rebuttal.
3 comments:
Is Ryan related to Dick Cheney somehow? Ryan seems to be another elitist sociopath. And no, Mr Ryan, that was not a compliment.
Thank God that Mr. Ryan is saving us from the, free ride madness of the Feingold nanny state mentality. Feingold was an embarrassment to all of us.
Scott Walker Approval rating down, so is John Kiasch in Ohio, and the Govorner in Florida is out.
It seem like the American Tea Party and no-Tea Party voters have gotten the Republicans message loud and clear.
These Governor's that Charles and David Koch put into office is about to learn the Americans' people has the last WORD.
last night in Buffalo NY the people voted and told Ryan's we don't like your plan.
Keep your handS off MY SOCIAL SECURITY,MEDICARE,MEDICAID.
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