Elizabeth Warren Picks A Fight With Paul Ryan

[ChangeUp106]

This is the funniest and most aggressive I've seen Warren.

"If Ted Cruz were around when the Declaration of Independence was passed he would have tried to repeal it because Jefferson was a Democrat."

She went on, "Paul Ryan says don't blame Wall Street: the guys who made billions of dollars cheating American families; don't blame decades of deregulation that took the cops off the beat while the big banks looted the American economy. Don't blame the Republican Secretary of the Treasury, and the Republican president who set in motion a no-strings-attached bailout for the biggest banks. Nope. Paul Ryan says keep the monies flowing to the powerful corporations, keep their huge tax breaks, keep the special deals for the too-big-to-fail banks and put the blame on hardworking, play-by-the-rules Americans who lost their jobs."

"That may be Paul Ryan's vision of how America works, but that is not our vision of this great country," she said.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/07/elizabeth-warren-paul-ryan_n_5106395.html

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[Motown_Johnny]

1. I like our odds in this fight

I hope Ryan hits back. He is out of his league.

[ladjf]

2. Bidden made a monkey out of him last year in the debate. nt

[QuestForSense]

19. To be fair, he was a monkey before the debate even started.

[elzenmahn]

20. Watch what you say...

...'cause comparing Pauly Boy to monkeys is denigrating...to the monkeys!

[L0oniX]

37. +1

[ladjf]

39. True. However, it was the first time I'd heard Ryan in some detail.

Also, my apologies to monkeys. I should have used something lower ,say an amoeba.

[calimary]

49. But then that's an insult to amoebas everywhere, too.

[ladjf]

54. Well, amoebas aren't known for their intellect but, as least they aren't crooks. nt

[yeoman6987]

30. Too bad he doesn't care what a Senator says

The House is insulated and could care less what a Senator says. The folks who should be speaking out to Paul Ryan are the House members specifically the Democrats who are pretty quiet on Ryan.

[1StrongBlackMan]

44. So true. eom.

[nomorenomore08]

61. +2

But I give the woman credit for trying. Ryan the Ratfucker needs to be countered and resisted in every possible way.

[WillyT]

3. K & R !!!

[2banon]

4. Now THERE is a headline that's honest, a Senator that ought to be Senate Leader

and we need someone like her in the House 2014(replacing mealy mouthed Pelosi) and someone like her as POTUS in 2016.

Can we just clone her into 3 people? Somehow?? Can't we pleeeeaaazzzeee?

[Aerows]

14. Not just 3, 535

She is awesome.

[Autumn]

5. Hi ChangeUp106. Would you please cross post this in the Elizabeth Warren Group please?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1265

TIA

[ChangeUp106]

6. Done

[Autumn]

7. Thanks. It's good to have everything on her in our group for easy information.

[progressoid]

8. More of this from our party please!

[Fla Dem]

53. Yeah but, she from a librul commie state. She doesn't have to worry about being reelected.

[Agony]

63. More of this from our party please!

is there an echo in here?

[99Forever]

9. There isn't a single Teathuglican that could...

... last 10 minutes in a debate with Senator Warren.

None. Zippo. Nadda.

Warren/Sanders '16 or Sanders/Warren '16

Unbeatable.

[GeorgeGist]

10. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh ... I love the sound of leadership

with principle.

[ErikGuard1]

11. I love Elizabeth but,

The "no strings attached bank bail out" could not have happened without the cooperation and support of the Democrats that controlled both the House and the Senate at the time. Unfortunately no matter how much I would like to you can't blame it all on the repubs. Her arguments and debating skills are strong enough on their own without having to misrepresent or embellish facts.

[B Calm]

32. Welcome to DU. I didn't know it was the democrats fault.

[brett_jv]

56. Welcome to DU ...

Dems definitely do bear some blame for the bailout, you are correct on that. However, no Repub would hesitate to make a similar claim to Warren's if the shoe was on the other foot (for reference: Benghazi, when the Repubs in the House refused to release funds to beef up Embassy security), so ... I say F 'em. Tired of being the 'nice guys' when the opposition has ZERO regard for facts or truth. Time for hardball.

[Mnpaul]

60. She did not make that claim

and did not lay blame solely on the Republicans. She was arguing against failed policy supported by people from both parties.

the Republican president who set in motion a no-strings-attached bailout for the biggest banks

[mstinamotorcity2]

12. Hell I want to pick a fight with Paul Ryan!!

Get the Gloves!!! They are for Ryan I am going to stand my ground

[Aerows]

15. Get in line

I think EW would kick his ass so hard, he'd have a difficult time finding out how to tie his shoes.

When he actually finds them.

[Aerows]

13. I won't even equivoquate

I *fucking* love Elizabeth Warren.

[TNNurse]

16. It really does not seem fair.

She is smart, well informed, has lots of common sense and he is...... well, none of those things.

It really isn't a fair fight. Go get him Elizabeth......

[polichick]

17. Now that's what Democrats are supposed to sound like!

[reformist2]

18. If she wants it, Liz Warren is the Dem nominee, & probably rolls on to a 40-state landslide in 2016.

She's that good.

[NorthCarolina]

21. If she ran, she'd have four votes from 3 generations in this household. nt

[KoKo]

22. Warren is Great...She knows how to CUT THROUGH THE CRAP that the RW Spews!

[BrotherIvan]

24. I don't know any Republicans, but I do wonder if they resonate with her message

Any 99% American should be able to understand her clear, 100% correct, populist message. I wonder if they're so turned inside out by fox and preachers they can't even hear the truth. They know they're being lied to by Cruz, Christie, Romney and Rove, so I wonder how they feel about Warren?

[ChangeUp106]

25. They will just say she lied about being Native American

I see it in every comment section in articles about her. It's literally the only thing they have on her.

[BrotherIvan]

26. Her message and her fight is what we need RIGHT NOW

She could run on an economic platform of JOBS and healing our economy. The die hard nutters may worry about her ancestry, but I don't know how anyone could refute that this country needs jobs. And since the Rs haven't done shit in their tenure, she could run circles around them. They could run on God & guns, but Independents might listen.

But I have no doubt the national Democratic party wants no part of her. They would have to change their Third Way course and that ain't gonna happen.

[olegramps]

33. I have relatives that listen 24/7 to FOX and Limbaugh.

Believe me that it is impossible to cut through the wall of ignorance that they have been encased in. No amount of logic can make a dent in the armor. The threat to their very wellbeing by the Republican agenda that includes privatization of Social Security, destruction of Medicare with a voucher system and of course repeal of the ACA along with massive cuts to safety net social programs and repeal of minimum wage laws doesn't daunt their fossilized brains. I can only say good luck to our younger people. Unless people wakeup damn soon their future looks mighty bleak.

[jwirr]

40. It is not that group we have to convince. They will vote repug regardless. We need to GOTV.

[BrotherIvan]

48. But what your post points out

Is that there are some who refuse to see reason. Maybe Democrats should just figure out what percentage that is and say, we don't pander for their votes. It seems it is impossible with the current electoral makeup for a hard right republican to win. So as long as Democrats start acting like Democrats, they'll win all those independents and moderate right who are appalled by the right wing clown car. And yet, the third way does their best to make something so simple very complicated in order to obscure that their agenda is the same as the Republicans. That's where the problem lies.

[olegramps]

59. What I mean by waking up is get your ass to the poll and vote.

The young people's future is in jeopardy. Anyone who looks at Ryan's budget should be scared to death unless they are in the upper 10%.

[Kermitt Gribble]

51. They don't get it.

My working class, tea bagging facebook friends don't see that her message is to benefit the working class, they see her as a communist.

[BrotherIvan]

57. I do see a lot of anger directed toward the poor as part of this issue

She is doing a great job of talking about middle class (which is actually lower middle class than it ever was) people trying to make it through the day. It seems that unless someone is a religious zealot, the message of supporting the "job creators" by the Republicans is a losing one. Most everyone hates their boss and most everyone, even in the higher income brackets that I know is not doing well financially.

But like I said, I live in California, so we are not steeped in RW radio and nonsensical hate 24/7 if we don't want to be. All my visits to the south have been rather eye opening, especially flipping on the radio. Love the food and some of the people, but man, there is some whacky shit going on down there.

[MannyGoldstein]

23. Can you imagine Warren in a debate?

Wow.

Our future!

[Berlum]

27. K

And r

[Vattel]

28. wow, she good

[Blue Owl]

29. Munster Bawl

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[L0oniX]

36. Aww Eddie has a sad.

[Buns_of_Fire]

31. $50 on Warren before the first round, and she wouldn't have to lay a glove on him.

Lyin' Ryan would swoon during the referee's instructions.

[malthaussen]

34. Sure, Warren would wipe the floor with Ryan...

... but every "pundit" in the land would call it for Munster-boy. You don't think debates are about content, do you?


-- Mal

[L0oniX]

35. OUCH!

[iscooterliberally]

38. I moved back to Florida

I got a job offer that I could not refuse, but while I was living in Boston I did get to vote for Elizabeth Warren. I want to vote for her again. I hope she runs for President.

[knightmaar]

41. "Maybe we could build a bridge"

" ... and I mean that literally."

Because you guys actually have a lot of bridges falling apart.

[Kingofalldems]

42. Yeah, but Ryan looks cool with his hat on backwards.

[1StrongBlackMan]

45. And those biceps!!! eom

[JI7]

65. if cool means looking like a douche

[tclambert]

43. That's not fair! Picking a battle of wits with an unarmed man . . .

[Lady Freedom Returns]

46. I was thinking the same thing.

Debating Paul Ryan is like shoot fish in a barrel! Easy win!

[Phlem]

47. To the Democratic Party.

Watch her and take notes.



-p

[SheilaT]

50. How anyone here can see things like that and then go back to

chanting, "Hillary! Hillary! Hillary!" is beyond me.

Warren is absolutely completely for the average person in this country. Show me where Ms. Clinton has done the same.

[The Wizard]

52. Verbally denuding Ryan

is always a treat. He's in way over his head with Elizabeth Warren. Has anyone ever asked for his curriculum vitae regarding economics? It appears that his only concern is widening the gap between the rich and poor and in the process courting civil unrest. He's better suited to be a douche bag salesman on the whore house circuit.

[INdemo]

55. I wish she would have mentioned the fact that

A large portion of Paul Ryan's college tuition was paid for with Social Security benefits....
We need to draft this woman for President in 2016. We don't need another corporatist in the White House. Now sure the Koch Bros will up the campaign stakes with the new SCOTUS ruling but as individuals we can overcome their big bucks. We really need this woman to run.Hillary no..too many billionaires would be wanting their financial backing payback..

[Aerows]

58. I'm pretty certain that

Elizabeth Warren has taken shits that exhibit more intelligence than Paul Ryan and Ted Cruz put together. They certainly had more moral courage, since those two couldn't find a moral with a compass, a flashlight and a GPS. They are like the Flight 370 of morals.

[nikto]

62. Isn't Benghazi actually Warren's fault?

Or maybe that Malaysian airliner crash?



There must be somp'n...

[YOHABLO]

64. How about Bernie for Pres. and Elizabeth for V.P.?

[Overseas]

66. K&R. Well said.