Ryan: President Obama 'Insisted;' Forced Me To Vote For Defense Cuts

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West Chester, Pennsylvania (CNN) — Mitt Romney’s running mate Paul Ryan blamed President Barack Obama for insisting on “irresponsible defense cuts” during last year’s budget negotiations, which the House Budget Committee chairman, himself, helped guide and pass through Congress.

“President Obama’s reckless defense cuts that are hanging over our cloud, hanging over the horizon, could put almost 44,000 jobs at stake right here in Pennsylvania. We are not going to let that happen,” Ryan said Tuesday . . .

Critics point to the fact that the Wisconsin congressman–along with other House Republicans–voted for the original debt ceiling deal that put sequestration on the docket. Ryan on Tuesday defended his role in the process.

“We already passed spending cuts and other wasteful parts of government to replace those irresponsible and devastating cuts that the president, through his lack of leadership, is promising will occur,” he said. “When these budget negotiations went down the pike, the president insisted that these irresponsible defense cuts be a part of this package. Then he insisted if you want to undo them, we need a trillion dollar tax increase on successful small businesses.”

“Congressman Ryan voted for and praised the Budget Control Act. Instead of making misleading attacks on the president, he should tell his fellow Congressional Republicans and Mitt Romney to drop their refusal to ask for a single penny from millionaires and billionaires, and work with the president to achieve balanced deficit reduction to avoid these cuts he voted for and is now using to score a political point,” Obama campaign spokesman Danny Kanner said in a statement.


read: http://fox2now.com/2012/08/22/ryan-blames-obama-for-scheduled-defense-cuts/

Paul Ryan: Bipartisan Budget Control Act Marks a Cultural Shift in Washington

[rfranklin]

1. What a wuss! Can't stand up for his principles, fli-flopping on issue after issue...

These Republicans sure are wishy washy.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

2. Did mean President Obama make you vote for nasty defense cuts

poor widdle baby!



So, I guess Ryan is admitting that President Obama is too strong for him and the rest of the Republican caucus (most of whom also voted for the deal) to handle? Did Boehner get 98% of what he wanted or not? I'm confused.

[ProSense]

3. Hey, Mini Mitt,

talk to Mr. Tears, you know your Congressional leader who got "98 percent" of what he wanted.

[Wounded Bear]

4. Says the guy who held 'full faith and credit' hostage......

How about you take a flying fuck at a rolling donut, there Paulie?

[C_U_L8R]

5. Admittedly a pretty bad negotiator

That makes Ryan a poor choice for any office.

[bigtree]

8. he's like a deputy clerk in a grade school student government

. . .the 'negotiations' were a bad faith attempt to damage the Obama presidency by holding the nation's economy -- our full faith and credit -- hostage to the republican-controlled House's cynical politics. He's nothing more than a prevaricating huckster selling age-old snake oil; twisting and turning to stay ahead of all of his party's lies and obfuscations.

[hifiguy]

6. I never knew smarm could take human form

until I saw Willard and Lyin' Ryan.

[burnsei sensei]

7. If Ryan is so susceptible to "insistence,"

then he has no will of his own and therefore, shouldn't be trusted in any leadership position.
It's perfectly possible to be intelligent and have no acumen or inclination toward leadership.

[barbtries]

9. he made me do it!

i'm not responsible.

i am SO not afraid of the MIC being forced to get by on a little less.

[Blue Idaho]

10. That right there is one spineless political hack.

How can anyone vote to put this whimpering little coward a heartbeat away from the presidency.

[Scuba]

11. Welcome to DU !!

[cprise]

12. This is juicy coming from an Ayn Rand follower

nt

[LondonReign2]

13. It truly isn't possible for them to not lie, is it?

nt

[winstars]

14. He is turning out to be a big fucking baby, bitching and moaning each day. He is approaching Palin..

territory as far as being ready to be POTUS.

[dballance]

15. BOO FREAKING HOO. Arm-twisting is part of politics.

At the end of the day Ryan, you wimp, it was your finger that pressed either the "yea" or "nay" button. Not Obama's.

[nadinbrzezinski]

16. Translation... for the base

"the black man made me do it."

Sorry if I am that cynical about these guys any longer...

This is what it is...

[Moonwalk]

17. Well, black men, even in suits and with "President of the United States" in front of their names...

are scary hoodlums

[nadinbrzezinski]

18. Well he was a community organizer

on the wrong side of the tracks no less. You don't know what he might have picked up!

I know, I know, I am a real cynic.

[Moonwalk]

19. There ya go! Community Organizer = Gang Leader

[Autumn]

20. Liar. Obama won't even force Democrats to side with him.