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Paul Ryan, loser
Yeah, we’re pointing and laughing at you.
This happened on Wednesday:
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers defeats Rep. Tom Price for House GOP conference chair, no. 4 GOP post— @russellberman via Twitter for iPhone
What makes it notable is the backstory, which pitted House Speaker John Boehner against newly defeated vice presidential candidate and would-be new party leader Paul Ryan.
Speaker John Boehner is officially neutral but privately supporting McMorris Rodgers. Paul Ryan, the returning chairman of the Budget Committee whose profile rose enormously during his vice presidential run, is asking colleagues to back Price.
Maybe Ryan is not so much the presumed leader of the GOP and the great 2016 hope for the party. Or maybe he still just has the stench of 2012 on him. Either way, Ryan loses again, and Boehner still has a split in his caucus to deal with. All in all, a pretty good day.
Comment
And he’ll always be the guy who sought (and failed) to take Medicare apart. Four years from now people in their early 50’s who would have been most affected will be in their late 50’s and quite grateful about Romney/Ryan’s defeat.
And he’ll always be the guy who said that rape was a just an alternative means of conception.
Congressman is as far as this loser gets, and hopefully we’ll be able to get his seat next time around.
“We the People of the United States….” –U.S. Constitution
by elwior on Wed Nov 14, 2012 at 03:33:23 PM PST
No Catholic should follow Ayn Rand
Paul Ryan (pictured), Mitt Romney‘s running mate in the US presidential election, has stated that he learned from Ayn Rand to view all policy questions as a ‘fight of individualism versus collectivism’. Photograph: Mary Altaffer/AP
The Catholic condemnation of abortion and the death penalty is well known and understood. But Catholic doctrine also condemns unfettered capitalism. We offer here a list of principles of Catholic social doctrine – not to argue their priority over others – but because we judge these to be the most in danger of being ignored or distorted in contemporary public debate.
The Catholic view of the human person is social not individual. Congressman Paul Ryan has stated that he learned from Ayn Rand to view all policy questions as a “fight of individualism versus collectivism”. The Catholic church does not espouse “individualism” but rather sees it as an error as destructive as collectivism. Blessed John Paul II described “individualism” as a dimension of the “culture of death” arising from an “eclipse of the sense of God”. The human person is “by its innermost nature, a social being”. We are radically dependent upon and responsible for one another. Again, in the words of John Paul II: “We are all really responsible for all.” This truth of the human person is tied to the central doctrines of the church. It reflects the very “intimate life of God, one God in three persons”.
Government has an essential role to play in protecting and promoting the common good. The error of individualism leads to a mistaken understanding of the role of government. For too long politicians have echoed Ronald Reagan’s misleading mantra “government is the problem”. The Catholic church, on the contrary, because of its social understanding of the human person, considers government to be as “necessary” for human nature as the family. The state exists to “defend and promote the common good of civil society, its citizens, and intermediate bodies”. Thus, while the church does not offer a specific blueprint for policy, it does view our government’s action on behalf of the common good a positive good in itself.
via No Catholic should follow Ayn Rand | Vincent Miller | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk.
via No Catholic should follow Ayn Rand | Vincent Miller | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk.
