Dowd to Ryan: 'Your Budget Reflects the Values Of AYN RAND Rather Than JESUS CHRIST'

[kpete]

Beware a Beautiful Calm
By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: August 18, 2012

Mitt Romney expects his running mate to help deliver the Catholic vote and smooth over any discomfort among Catholics about Mormonism. (This is the first major-party ticket to go Protestant-less.) Yet after Ryan claimed his budget was shaped by his faith, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops deemed it immoral.

“A just spending bill cannot rely on disproportionate cuts in essential services to poor and vulnerable persons,” the bishops wrote in a letter to Congress.

The Jesuits were even more tart, with one group writing to Ryan that “Your budget appears to reflect the values of your favorite philosopher, Ayn Rand, rather than the Gospel of Jesus Christ.”

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/19/opinion/sunday/dowd-beware-a-beautiful-calm.html?_r=2&hp

[orpupilofnature57]

1. Fundies remind me of Ayn Rand , Adolf Hitler

Cotton Mather and all the other assholes that want to help us through Genocide.

[reformist2]

2. Someone needs to say this to Ryan's face!

[jwirr]

3. On this I agree with her completely.

[polly7]

4. I just came across this too in my morning reading (though I don't know how popular Nader is

so take it for what it's worth I guess.

Nader: Paul Ryan’s Vicious Budget

August, 19 2012 Ralph Nader

Source: CounterpunchSunday, August 19, 2012

http://www.zcommunications.org/paul-ryan-s-vicious-budget-by-ralph-nader


The Ryan budget plan is a Koch brothers’ dream and the American peoples’ nightmare

The cruel impoverishment of the debate among the presidential and congressional candidates took a gigantic leap into the pits with Mitt Romney’s selection of 42-year-old Rep. Paul Ryan from the deindustrialized town of Janesville, Wisconsin. Ryan is invariably described by reporters as “an intellectual leader of the conservative movement” and by fellow Republicans as a person “who tells the hard truths” to the American people.

The truth is that what has distinguished this fast-talking, glib, Ayn Rand-smitten, congenial young man is that he has a plan for the federal budget. On Capitol Hill that fact alone makes one a “stand-out” in the field of political narcissists whose mental tank harbors gaseous one-liners and kneejerk slogans.

The Ryan budget plan is a Koch brothers’ dream and the American peoples’ nightmare. It leads with a lie – namely to control deficit spending by continuing it for at least 30 more years before his concoction of big tax cuts for the rich, further increases in the already bloated defense budget, and savage cuts in public services for the people, somehow balance the budget around mid-century.

Ryan’s brain is chock-full of such cognitive dissonance that it would blow a normal person’s mind. He is a practicing Catholic, but since his youth has been a disciple of the militant atheist Ayn Rand who despised altruism and “love thy neighbor” values while edifying extreme selfishness and greed.....

[PD Turk]

5. Proverbs 29:7

The righteous care about justice for the poor,but the wicked have no such concern.

[NBachers]

6. Smackdown! So will this reach the Sunday pulpits?

Somehow, I doubt it.

[MsPithy]

7. Oh! Snap!

Ayn Rand budget not a Jesus Christ budget! This whole election can not be boiled down to a more clear, concise, pithy, bumper sticker worthy point. And, the Catholic bishops gave it to us. Time to pressure the bishops to deny communion to everyone who supports republican budgets.

This is a winner.

[Historic NY]

8. Wait what...

does this mean people are opening their eyes.

[emulatorloo]

9. She'll be back to trashing Obama/Biden by next week.

[cr8tvlde]

10. Palin' around with militant atheists...

and requiring staff to purchase then read Ayn Rand, the Philosopher's Plan that spawned The Ryan Plan.

That's secular evangelism.

[gulliver]

11. That's really excellent.

She makes great points, and there are some really good laughs in there too. Thanks for posting.