Paul Ryan still struggling with that losing thing

[ProSense]

Paul Ryan still struggling with that losing thing

by Jed Lewison

More Dick Jr.:

Despite a devastating loss last week, Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan rejected Democratic claims of a mandate to raise tax rates on the wealthy.

Asked whether President Obama has a mandate on taxes, Ryan told ABC News' senior political correspondent Jonathan Karl that the House Republican majority is proof that the president does not.

"I don't think so, because they also reelected the House Republicans. So whether people intended or not, we've got divided government," Ryan, R-Wis., said in his first national interview since last week's loss.

That's complete nonsense. As a candidate, President Barack Obama promised that if reelected, he would not sign an extension of the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy. There was no ambiguity about that, and last Tuesday Americans made their decision. President Obama didn't just win a big electoral college victory; he became just the second of the last 10 presidents to win a majority both times on the ballot. So yes, he does have a mandate—and the power—to end the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy.

As for Republicans maintaining control of the House of Representatives, Ryan's conclusion is pure malarkey. Republicans kept the House because they gerrymandered the hell out of it. Democrats running for the House actually got more than one million more votes than Republicans did, but thanks to the 2010 redistricting, Republicans still barely maintained control of Congress. So while it is true that John Boehner is speaker, that's only because the process for drawing district boundaries sucks. It's a fact of life we have to deal with, but it's not a mandate for Republicans—not one single bit.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/11/14/1161586/-Paul-Ryan-still-struggling-with-that-losing-thing

Poor Mittless twit!

[jberryhill]

1. Well, you have to understand, Obama's electoral district is a huge gerrymander

They drew the presidential electoral map to include a lot of liberal areas, but left out vast reaches of Dumbfuckistan, Lunatica, and The Republic of Nutjobia.

[reflection]

10. Funniest. Post. Of. The. Day.

[LynneSin]

2. Technically the democrats received more votes for house seats overall than the GOP

But thanks to wretched gerrymandering the GOP held on to the house.

[Spazito]

3. To paraphrase a quote from the movie "Top Gun"

'His ego is writing checks his body can't cash.'

He really is pathetic.

[RepublicansRZombies]

7. I didn't know that is who Limp Bizkit was paraphrasing

"Cause your mouth's writing checks that your ass can't cash."

[Spazito]

11. LOL, assuming you are referencing the bloviator Limbaugh...

that is the epitome of 'look in the mirror' talk. His mouth does nothing but write checks his ass can't cash ergo the loss of sponsors, etc.

[RepublicansRZombies]

15. no, I was talking about the band

But I am cracking up about you calling Limbaugh a Limp Bizkit totally fitting

[Warpy]

4. I love this Republican soul searching that comes up

with things to blame like a poor "ground game," too many voters in cities, too many brown people out there, and the big perennial scapegoat, women. Women just don't understand the economy, they moan.

The one thing they never focus on is the fact that their dogma has been tried for over 30 years and has been proven a failure for everyone but a handful of billionaires and their favored water carriers in the media. They also seem to miss the fact that stripping away a woman's ability to control her own body is unpopular with women.

So I'll continue to watch this with a great deal of amusement, men who are utterly incapable of admitting they are ever wrong about anything pointing their fingers at each other over minutiae while completely missing the reason they were defeated by those educated and well heeled urbanites.

They'll just never get it. They can't get it.

[RepublicansRZombies]

8. I have family like this- is there really no hope?

I need my hope!

[Warpy]

12. Some people dig themselves out from under the ton of bricks

that fell on them and realize the wall hadn't been built correctly, so there is always hope. The fact that Obama got a second term with all the money being squandered on Romney and all the crooked things Republicans were trying to do in swing states and elsewhere gives me a great deal of hope.

The best hope of all is the way the Reagan coalition of the really rich with the really stupid is starting to break down.

[HopeHoops]

5. He's still trying to dislodge his head from his ass.

[RepublicansRZombies]

6. Da Nile ain't just a river in Egypt

n/t

[William769]

9. he is just going to be more disappointed in the coming weeks.

And thats a good thing!

[cyglet]

13. If he wants to continue to blame the weather

instead of the GOP, more power to him.

[ieoeja]

14. Best quote from the interview:

"This is a very close election, and unfortunately divided government didn't work very well the last two years. We're going to have to make sure it works in the next two years."

Thanks for your tacit admission that your Party has done nothing but obstruct business.