Ryan Courageously Representing Corporate Interests

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It didn’t take long after the Janesville Gazette and the Beloit Daily News gave tender endorsements for Paul Ryan’s Roadmap plan, that the Janesville Messenger would pitch in their support with a cover story promoting Ryan’s rattling caravan of old far-right-wing tax cut election year ideas.

To be fair to the newspaper, at least the twice-weekly newspaper allowed opposing viewpoints including those from two Democratic candidates challenging Ryan for the congressional seat.

But the more I read Ryan’s plan, the more it turns my stomach. And the more I read the reactions from others here and here, including the Messenger article, the more I realize many feel the same way I do.

If there is any consolation for Paul Ryan, it appears to come from the media’s willingness to give him some credit for drawing attention to problems his own votes have exacerbated. But this too, is like giving Hurricane Katrina credit for drawing attention to New Orleans.

JM Excerpt:
“Paul Ryan really has laid down an ideological marker here. This is much more Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater than it is George W. Bush.”

This appears to be among the first I’ve heard trying to draw a separation between Ryan and Bush. For a lack of a better analogy at the moment, they'd have better luck trying to split a hair using a butter knife.

Dead End Excerpt:
Fortunately it appears that the extreme free-market ideas of George W. Bush and Paul Ryan are on the wane and we are moving into a period where policies that view carefully crafted government involvement as a positive force are on the rise.

Yet, I don’t know how many times I’ve heard Ryan’s supporters claim he is not an ideologue OR a partisan. Nothing is further from the truth. The “Roadmap for America’s Future” is more a ideological profile of it’s author, a radical corporate right-wing business model dressed up in a moderate conservative suit for public consumption, than it is a comprehensive view of the inner workings of government.

One of the main talking points behind Ryan's corrective measures is his contention that more tax cuts/credits will lift the debt burden of entitlement spending on future deficits. Yet he seems to ignore the CBO-based CBPP findings that show recent legislated tax cuts are responsible for nearly half of our running deficits.When you’ve come up with a plan to cut taxes for the wealthy even more than Bush did, eliminate all corporate taxes including taxes on profits and dividends, use government as a strong-arm middle-man for Wall Street investment firms, relegate health care priorities to nothing more than a shopping experience, and replace employer sponsored health insurance with a tax credit, I’d say you laid down more than a ideological marker. I’d say the 1st Congressional District of Wisconsin no longer has a representative in Congress. I’d say we have a Wall Street broker.