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Personally, I will lose all respect for Paul Ryan if he takes the Speakership. (Original Post) kelliekat44 Oct 2015 OP
He needs to go back to his acting career... onehandle Oct 2015 #1
Do you have any respect for him now? edhopper Oct 2015 #2
what respect is there for that despicable pos? niyad Oct 2015 #3
kind of an odd comment, so you have some respect for him now snooper2 Oct 2015 #4

edhopper

(33,722 posts)
2. Do you have any respect for him now?
Tue Oct 20, 2015, 12:28 PM
Oct 2015

I don't.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/10/paul-ryan-centrist-crush/

But Ryan didn’t step into that role by actually being a serious, honest conservative; he just played one on TV. If you knew anything at all about budgeting, you soon realized that his supposedly responsible fiscal proposals were stuffed full of mystery meat. He knew how to game the system, creating the impression that CBO had vetted his plans when it had done no such thing (and in fact hinted broadly that the whole thing was a crock). But there’s never been any indication that he actually knows how to produce a budget — and in any case, giant tax cuts for the rich and fiscal responsibility are fundamentally incompatible.
 

snooper2

(30,151 posts)
4. kind of an odd comment, so you have some respect for him now
Tue Oct 20, 2015, 12:31 PM
Oct 2015

But would lose that if he stepped into a leadership position LOL


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