
A recent appeal landed in the emailbox. It was an appeal to help defeat Sherrod Brown, “a Senator who must be defeated next year,” according to the letter.
It was signed, “Jim DeMint, United States Senator, Chairman, Senate Conservatives Fund.”
The reason this letter caught my eye and didn’t get immediately tossed–like so many others–was the following information.
“Sherrod Brown was recently ranked by National Journal as the “most liberal” member of the entire U.S. Senate. He voted:
FOR the $700 billion Wall Street bailout;
FOR the $787 billion stimulus bill;
FOR President Obama’s government takeover of healthcare;
FOR the Cash for Clunkers program;
FOR the auto bailout;
FOR union intimidation using “card check” elections;
AGAINST permanent repeal of the death tax; and
AGAINST the earmark moratorium.
AGAINST defunding Planned Parenthood
There is no bigger supporter in the U.S. Senate of big-government spending, bailouts, and debt than Sherrod Brown.
This brought a question immediately to mind: how much different is Sherrod Brown’s record than that of conservative darling, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)?
Paul Ryan’s Record (Does Paul Ryan’s Record Match His Rhetoric?)
Paul Ryan on Bailouts and Government Stimuli
-Voted YES on TARP (2008)
-Voted YES on Economic Stimulus HR 5140 (2008)
-Voted YES on $15B bailout for GM and Chrysler. (Dec 2008)
-Voted YES on $192B additional anti-recession stimulus spending. (Jul 2009)
So far, Paul Ryan’s record is an exact match with Sherrod Brown, “the most liberal member of the Senate.”
Maybe Ryan would do better on Entitlement Spending. After all, his many media boosters are trying to convince America that Ryan’s Roadmap is a way out of the entitlement spending mess.
Paul Ryan on Entitlement Programs
-Voted YES on limited prescription drug benefit for Medicare recipients. (Nov 2003)
-Voted YES on providing $70 million for Section 8 Housing vouchers. (Jun 2006)
-Voted YES on extending unemployment benefits from 39 weeks to 59 weeks. (Oct 2008)
-Voted YES on Head Start Act (2007)
In addition, Paul Ryan voted YES on George Bush’s 2001 vast expansion of the federal educational bureaucracy, No Child Left Behind.
The Republican Liberty Caucus of Wisconsin summed up their piece on Paul Ryan’s record with a reminder–and a bit of advice for Ryan.
According to Michelle Malkin in 2009, “[Paul Ryan] gave one of the most hysterical speeches in the rush to pass TARP last fall; voted for the auto bailout; and voted with the Barney Frank-Nancy Pelosi AIG bonus-bashing stampede. Milwaukee blogger Nick Schweitzer wrote: ‘He ought to be apologizing for his previous votes, not pretending he was being responsible the entire time, but I don’t see one bit of regret for what he did previously. And I’ll be damned if I’m going to let him get away with it’.”
Congressman Ryan: if you don’t like debt, stop voting for debt.
Getting back to that email, the question I guess we all ought to be asking ourselves is:
Will we be seeing Jim DeMint’s name on a piece of fundraising literature attempting to defeat that liberal member of the House, Paul Ryan?
UPDATE: Almost on cue, Ryan puff pieces appear almost daily in the Corporate Mainstream Media. The same day as this piece, one by ex-Fox News reporter, Major Garrett, showed up at National Journal with the hilarious headline: Paul Ryan’s Finest Hour?
Garrett thinks Ryan is positively Churhillesque.
One supposes that that’s right–as long as Garrett was referring to Ryan record and the following Churchill quote (about Churchill’s switch in political parties and then a final return to the Conservatives).
“Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain ingenuity to rerat.”
EVEN Charles Krauthammer turns into an unblinking tool when the subject is Paul Ryan. Maybe Krauthammer is enamored of Ryan because of Ryan’s refreshing ability not to be tied down to his previous positions on the issue of debt?
It’s all a bit hilarious: the Corporate Media Stooges try their best to pretend that Paul Ryan has no voting record before 2011. It’s so brazen, it’s proof that “conservatives” were paying attention during the Clinton years.
Krauthammer argues for Paul Ryan in 2012, or GOP will ’sink’ on Medicare
by Mondo Frazier
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