October 3, 2008 – 10:45 am
Paul Ryan. I’ve actually met this guy and been in his office. When I met him, at a White House function, he said that my dad was doing “the lord’s work”. (Yep. That’s how we do it in this family.)
Anyways, he voted yes to the bailout plan, the only Republican in Wisconsin to do so despite the protests of his constituents. He’s not been very popular for it, but this is completely unfair. The fact is that something needs to happen or the market will collapse. Ryan was the leader of an alternative bailout plan that got shot down and after that happened tried to make the current one better. He didn’t like what eventually came out, but said that it “wasn’t enough to be a laissez-faire conservative and let Rome burn . . . This bill is not perfect, but doing nothing is far worse than passing this bill.” The Wall Street Journal has an op-ed up about him.
Mr. Ryan, perhaps the free market’s truest friend in Congress, earlier this week voted to help rescue that free market. He hated the Paulson plan, but hated more the economic crash he is convinced will follow inaction. And in casting his “yes” vote on Monday, he knew what was coming: “The easiest thing would be to vote no and go hide in my office and watch the markets collapse. I will suffer politically for this, but I will sleep at night.”
This is hurting Paul Ryan here in Wisconsin and maybe it should, but he has the best interests of our state, the taxpayers and the country in mind. We can’t affford a crisis and he knows that. That’s why he still has my vote.
September 10, 2008 – 5:11 pm
I hate when celebrities talk politics. Not because they are all so liberal that it’s ridiculous, but because everything they say is completely over the top and they rarely seem to know what their talking about. Like Adam McKay’s article in the Huffington Post where he has the gall to talk about the media favoring McCain over Obama (The Onion said it best: Top Story On John McCain Run Out Of Obligation.)
This is it folks. If McCain takes power we fade and become Australia in the seventies: a backwoods country with occasional flashes of relevance. Except we’ve got a way bigger military and we’re angrier. People will get hurt and we’ll pay the bill for the bullets. I’m telling you, unless we wake up, we’re gonna lose this frickin’ thing.
I love Adam McKay’s movies and when (if) I finish my comedy screenplay he is a producer I would DIE to have for it, but please just shut up. It’s America, we’ll always be relevant. At this point both candidates are a step up from the Bush-Cheney administration in my opinion, but according to any liberal you speak to McCain is just a Bush clone and electing him means Bush’s reign will continue forever while Obama will literally save the world. The whole thing reminds me of this awesome quote from Al’s Ramblings, one of my favorite blogs.
On a side note, I was just thinking yesterday how disappointed many people are going to be on the day after President Bush leaves office, no matter who wins…I can just hear many of them saying, “Gee, the streets aren’t paved with gold, I wonder why?”
September 10, 2008 – 3:15 pm
Now, let me get this straight. Cindy McCain knows how to drift cars, but doesn’t know what Roe v Wade is? I don’t even know what to say to that.
September 8, 2008 – 4:56 am
Just saw the trailer for the new Michael Moore movie, Slacker Uprising. Which seems to be about Michael Moore doing a campus tour to convince young people to vote. You got free ramen noodles for showing up so it’s cool by me. According to the official site this was:
Part concert tour , part stand-up comedy performance and part rock concert, SLACKER UPRISING is an uplifting and patriotic look at the birth of a new political generation in America — a generation of young people who would signal the era of “Obamania” that would take place just four years later.
Apparently, it worked as voter turnout was the highest since the 60s. Of course, Bush still won so he didn’t even get what he really wanted out of it. I get the feeling that he thinks releasing this movie for free on the internet right before the election will somehow convince even more people to vote and vote Obama. Of course, he also thought this the last time he released a film before an election.