What Is Ryan thinking?

[coljam]

Assuming the man is of sound mind , what can he possibly be thinking ? What is the purpose of the BS budget knowing it has no chance.

Ryan should be arrested for masturbating in public.

[Jackpine Radical]

1. OK, now for a tougher challenge--

Try & get "Ryan" and "thinking" into a sentence that doesn't include WHAT or NOT.

[Siwsan]

4. Here's my sentence. Paul Ryan is thinking with his ego.

I think this is all about his pathological need for attention. Positive or negative - as long as it is attention. And air time.

[Jackpine Radical]

9. Paul Ryan is a narcissistic fuckhead.

From PubMed: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001930/

Narcissistic personality disorder is a condition in which people have an excessive sense of self-importance, an extreme preoccupation with themselves, and lack of empathy for others.



A person with narcissistic personality disorder may:

React to criticism with rage, shame, or humiliation

Take advantage of other people to achieve his or her own goals

Have excessive feelings of self-importance

Exaggerate achievements and talents

Be preoccupied with fantasies of success, power, beauty, intelligence, or ideal love

Have unreasonable expectations of favorable treatment

Need constant attention and admiration

Disregard the feelings of others, and have little ability to feel empathy

Have obsessive self-interest

Pursue mainly selfish goals

[Stuart G]

17. actually....worse than that...a true selfish asshole..in every sence of the word..and..

If there is a rung in hell for him..it is at the bottom..

[Jackpine Radical]

19. No, Darth Cheney's got a lock on that position.

[chelsea0011]

26. He has bought into the idea he is the one thinking person

with a plan.

[pnwmom]

2. He, and the rest of the Repub House members, are thinking they want to keep their jobs,

and they're thinking the tea bagger voters in their gerrymandered districts will reelect them as long as they "stick to their principles."

And these House members could well be right.

[TheMastersNemesis]

3. Ryan And The GOP Know The Evil They Do And The Evil They Plan - If Your Are Not Rich

Blame yourself. They love the law of the jungle. You are either predator or prey. The weak have no right to live or survive.
Add up all their policies and follow the results of those policies to their conclusion. Takers are expendable and really should die. Survival of the fittest. Tough luck old chap.

It's is like practices in some tribal societies. When the old or infirm cannot help produce they are left out in the cold or on the ice flow. That message is the core message of the GOP.

[Myrina]

6. Funniest thing, though ... none of them got rich 'on their own'.

They didn't build that. Truly.
Their millions came off the backs of workers, innovators, a sales force and favorable tax laws.
Eliminate all of those layers and lets see how long the rich stay rich.

[meow2u3]

16. Ryan was on Social Security survivors benefits after his dad died

It's time we throw this fact back in his face, now that he's trying to take Social Security and Medicare away from us.

He should be held accountable for denying to others the same benefits he himself enjoyed.

[TexasBushwhacker]

18. As were his siblings and mother n/t

[Myrina]

5. An even scarier question: What are the people who BELIEVE him thinking?

And a follow up: Why isn't the media and every other politician at every level screaming "BULLSHIT" and laughing his sorry ass back to Wisconsin?

I know a woman who is, in my opinion, very intelligent. She's an MBA, CPA, teaches accounting at a local community college, she runs a nonprofit and works for the SBA advising small business start ups. She thinks Ryan's plan is the bees knees. WTF???

[Jackpine Radical]

10. MBA, CPA. That's your explanation.

Both by original inclination and training, most of those who go into these fields are driven by narrow self-interest.

The two educational tracks are built upon inhumane assumptions. Whatever promises a profit or a lowered tax is good. Whatever hurts profits or increases taxes is bad. They live in a very simple, black-and-white universe, and nothing in their training nudges them to look outside it.

I'm sure there are exceptions, but generally nobody goes into either field with the intention of alleviating human suffering or our of a deep concern for the welfare of their fellows.

[Cosmocat]

23. RIGHT

if there was not a BIG chunk of the populace in this country that lapped their BS up grinning and smiling, they would not exist.

[Yavin4]

7. Simple. He Wants to Destroy The Social Safety Net.

He, the Republicans and their donor base, want to convince the American people that they cannot use democracy to vote for a minimum level of economic security. They want the people to throw themselves at the mercy of the capitalist predator class for their survival.

Want healthcare? Beg your boss to get it. If your boss doesn't provide it, then you're not worthy of the benefit. Go out on the market and buy it. Can't afford it? Tough shit.

[Blue4Texas]

8. Locked in

He can't think any other way, even if it doesn't work

[Jackpine Radical]

11. Oh, but it would work f he could only implement it.

It would quite effectively and drastically increase the gap between the haves and the have-nots, mostly by driving the have-nots into the ground and into their graves in order to transfer an ever-diminishing national wealth to the pockets of the super-rich.

[Blue4Texas]

12. Moot

If he can't implement it which he can't

[Jackpine Radical]

13. Gott sei dank!

[Blue4Texas]

15. Si', gracias a Dios!

[brooklynite]

14. It was a promise to the Tea Party caucus in the House...

...in return for their reluctant support of the fiscal cliff deal.

[Evergreen Emerald]

20. The further he moves to the right--the further dems move to the right

to "compromise."

We are careening right at an alarming rate. If it is true that Obama is talking about cutting the safety net, it is in an attempt to compromise with the ever radical right.

[apnu]

21. The guy lies pathologically about his recreations, you can't trust anything he says.

He lied about his marathon times and the number of mountains he climbed. I don't even believe he's a PX90 guy. Anybody who lies about that stuff isn't right in the head.

Less than 5% of the U.S. Population as attempted to run one marathon, just completing one is a major accomplishment, weather its in 6 hours or 2 hours. The same for climbing any mountain, except even fewer people have attempted such a feat. And he lies about this? Even Sarah Palin was honest about her marathon times (and they're pretty respectable and faster than Ryan's actual results). The only respect I have for her is her commitment to running.

[Zoeisright]

22. He's not thinking. He's just regurgitating what he's been told to say.

And he isn't of sound mind - he's a repuke. That means he's deliberately ignorant, cruel, selfish, and mean.

[Cosmocat]

24. who has lived in that bubble his whole life

born into it, walked out of college into congress into an even more insular bubble.

He truly believes his bullshit.

Part of why this generation of conservatives is so dangerous.

They really do not know better.

[One of the 99]

25. It's called

being blinded by your ideology.

[KharmaTrain]

27. His "Vindication"...

Eddie Munster was deeply offended that his "budget" was used against him and Willard in the past election. While this budget doesn't stand an icecube's chance in hell of ever seeing President Obama's desk, it still will pass through the dysfunctional House. That's all he cares. It'll mean he's still a "player" and build up his "cred" with the teabaggers for 2016...or to oust Boner...

[annabanana]

28. He is just a nerve ending.. reacting reflexively to various stimuli. . n/t