Pic Of The Moment: Paul Ryan: Yet Another Debt Limit Crisis Coming Unless GOP Demands Are Met

[EarlG]

Paul Ryan Indicates GOP Willing To Hold Debt Limit Hostage Again

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[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. He NAUSEATES me.

[monmouth3]

2. Yes, he is the description of "smarm" in all of the books..Creep!!!..n/t

[yeoman6987]

20. He makes me sick

I can't stand him. Can you imagine him as VP? Yieks. Glad we dodged that. Anyway, I can't stand Boehner either, but to think that this guy possibly is the next Majority Leader in 2014 (if they keep the House) makes me sick.

[stuartsdesk1]

3. "We Don't Want Nothing Out of This Debt Limit" - What Does Paul Ryan Really Mean?

If Paul were from Brooklyn, NY, then we could understand his utterance as meaning,

"We don't want anything...."

But, alas, Paul is from Janesville, WI where they speak more grammatically, if
not more understandably.

Probably, Paul meant to say, "All's we want is to screw up the government so I
can get my picture in the papers."

Or, maybe, "We DO want something but we don't have a clue as to what that might be."

Please - Would Paul's mother sound off from Florida in and tell us what her little boy really wants.

[Arkansas Granny]

6. I read that to mean that they got nothing the last time they used these tactics, so

this time he wants more than nothing.

[AlbertCat]

12. Yes, he used a double negative.... but

He means what it means.... that they want something. An awkward sophomoric way of saying "we want something".

[stuartsdesk1]

24. Albertcat, You Are Right of Course - Paul Is About to Commit Extortion

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Albertcat,

Yes, you are absolutely right. Paul is about to try to extort concessions from the Democrats
in return for not obstructing an increase in the debt limit.

Now the last time the Republicans pulled this trick it resulted in a downgrading of the USA's credit
rating by S&P. My recollection is that it went from AAA to AA+. That meant that treasury bills issued
by the USA would have to bear higher interest rates compared to what would have been the case
with a AAA rating.

Does anybody know how many extra billions of $ did this cost the US treasury when it sold treasury bills in 2013?

Albertcat - Please give me a little help on another question. How did you manage to insert a graphic into
your reply to my thread? I have tried "copy" and "paste" of a jpg image but I can't seem to get "paste" to
respond. Should the image have another format? gif? Whatever? Or is there another way to do it?

Many thanks.

[AlbertCat]

28. How did you manage to insert a graphic into your reply to my thread?

You mean the dancing kitty?

It's a gif loop. and I did just paste it into my sig line.

[Amonester]

30. Paul Lyan and Ted $crews most recent extortion cost US $24 Billion

And a big drop for Republicants support.

These thugs want to destroy both the US and their own party.

[hedgehog]

4. Is this the same guy who was lauded for helping develop a budget compromise?

[Ccarmona]

5. I Thought

Taking hostages is illegal.

[Dawgs]

7. Actually, it did kind of work.

In less than two months after the shutdown the GOP has gained back their advantage in the polls. It didn't hurt them one bit, and they actually are the preferred party to run Congress.

[MrScorpio]

8. What's Einstein's definition of insanity again? nt

[Triana]

9. The "debt limit" ought to be REMOVED. NOW.

And with it the treasonous tantrums of the goddamned Tea Party.

[SCVDem]

10. There's a word for this!

EXTORTION!!!

Book 'em Danno!

[AlbertCat]

11. "We want to get something out of this...."

Notice how the American People are nowhere near this "we".

[SoapBox]

13. Such an asshole.

[NastyRiffraff]

14. That didn't take long

to completely refute that bipartisan thing he was peddling.

[bullwinkle428]

15. Yes, all hail our newest SENSIBLE right-wing overlord!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

16. Ryan thinks he's speaker already, leader of the Republican House caucus. Or both caucuses. But...

But Ted Cruz thinks he's the leader of both caucuses.

[MADem]

17. Does the guy understand what a lead balloon is, I wonder? nt

[Initech]

18. Insanity: doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

[WowSeriously]

19. MINT.THE.COIN.NOW!

[nyquil_man]

21. FFS. The damn money's already been appropriated.

How does the "intellectual" not get this?

[DefenseLawyer]

22. Didn't Rod Blagojevich go to prison for saying something like that?

"I've got this thing and it's fucking golden. I'm not just giving it up for fucking nothing."

[Blue Owl]

23. In other news, Tony Romo throws second 4th quarter interception

n/t

[cantbeserious]

25. Doing The Bidding Of Oligarchs, Corporations And Banks Daily

eom

[Thor_MN]

26. What do get? You get to be seen as minimally doing your fucking job, dumbass!

[DallasNE]

27. This Is Paul Ryan Giving Fox News Viewers Some Red Meat

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My guess is that a sizable chunk of House Republicans will not be willing to go over the edge with default. And Republicans would surely get the blame because the just agreed on a budget and then they refuse to fund the budget just passed. There is absolutely no way they can spin that into a winning issue. Yes, we will have posturing on the issue but they really have no cards to play. Not just that, but when they come back in early January the first order of business will be a 4-6 month extension of unemployment benefits effective back to December 27th (when they ran out) and they will probably be paid for out of a reduction in farm subsidies. Lastly, they will pass a minimum wage increase and take up immigration reform then send that bill to the President for signature. Why would they cave on all of these issues? So they can turn their sole focus on the Affordable Care Act.

You heard it here first.

[blkmusclmachine]

29. What's the over/under on how fast the DEMS fold this time round???

[DonCoquixote]

31. Paul, you are

the best hope the Democratic party has. As long as you keep doing things that even your masters on Wall Street get freaked out by, you will give voters a reason to vote Democrat.

Which sadly, is more than the democrats can do atm.

[Warren DeMontague]

32. "I know that dude!"

[tofuandbeer]

33. Are we sure Paul Ryan is not a Muppet?

[Nanjing to Seoul]

34. Smug, self-important little fascist psychopath. GFY, STFU and piss off, wanker!