Paul Ryan Will Vote No On Cat Food Commission's Recommends

[Me.]

“Congressman Ryan, one of 12 members of Congress on the 18-member bipartisan debt commission, had telegraphed a no vote on Wednesday, but stated straight-up at a Monitor breakfast for reporters Thursday that that is his decision.

"Obviously, I’m not going to vote for it,” said Congressman Ryan, who is an important voice on the commission as incoming chairman of the House Budget Committee come January.

Ryan’s biggest problem with the debt commission report, he said, was that “it not only didn’t address the elephant in the room, health care, it made it fatter.“

Still, he called the commission a “success,” because the two co-chairs, former Sen. Alan Simpson (R) of Wyoming and former Clinton White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles (D), put a plan on the table. (Simpson and Bowles were guests at a Monitor Breakfast last month.”…cont…

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/monitor_breakfast/2010/1202/Why-Paul-Ryan-will-vote-no-on-deficit-commission-report

[Jackpine Radical]

1. Ryan votes no because

the proposal doesn't screw the poor sufficiently.

[PA Democrat]

2. Not enough cruelty in the report for Ryan?

Because you just KNOW he wanted draconian CUTS to Medicare and Medicaid.

[RelativelyJones]

3. We need to go after this guy with hammer and tong.

[housewolf]

4. Of course he'll vote "no" on it...

2 Reasons -

1. It's not HIS plan, so it couldn't possibly be good enough (no other plan could possibly be good enough!)

2. The Repubs aren't serious about reducing the debt/deficit, it's all about political showmanship for them - how many times have we heard from Cheney and his ilk that "deficits don't matter"?

[bluestateguy]

5. Kind of like Kucinich voting Nay on HCR (the first time)

Because it does not go far enough. For Ryan the commission's recommendations were insufficiently draconian and cruel.

But a Yes vote is a Yes vote and a No vote is a No vote. That puts Ryan in the same camp as Jan Schakowsky and Alan Grayson whether he likes it or not.

[wilt the stilt]

6. A man who has never had a job

in the private sector and has had government healthcare his entire adult life asking seniors to take a cut on healthcare. I wish this guy all the worst.