Media darling and Very serious wonk Paul Ryan votes NO to debt ceiling increase.

[Mass]

Vote note finished but at this point only 28 GOP voted YES (roll call to come).

I wonder what the MSM will tell us about him tonight. Probably nothing.

Note: It should be a surprise for nobody as he has repeatedly voted against increases, including for the final vote for the shutdown, but he will save the GOP or so have we been told.

[Mass]

1. Well, we now know to what point the GOP conference is crazy.

Only 28 of them voted for increasing the debt ceiling.

http://www.nationaljournal.com/congress/house-quickly-votes-to-raise-the-debt-ceiling-then-heads-home-20140211

After a tumultuous 24-hours of wrangling within the Republican caucus, the House passed a clean debt ceiling increase with surprisingly little drama Tuesday afternoon, 221-201. Speaker John Boehner, Majority Leader Eric Cantor, and Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy voted for the increase. House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan, on the other hand, voted against the bill.

[Scuba]

2. There's a cure waiting ...

http://www.robzerban.com

[Mass]

3. Catherine Morris Rodgers voted NO as well.

As did Walden, head of the Republican Congressional Committee.

So, leadership could not even get their own guys in a row?

[okaawhatever]

7. I wonder if the voting will come down to those in tight races for re-election, or those in uber

conservative districts voting no and the rest voting yes.

[Mass]

4. Roll-call

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2014/roll061.xml

[NutmegYankee]

6. The Bill Title is kind of funny/sad

BILL TITLE: To designate the air route traffic control center located in Nashua, New Hampshire, as the “Patricia Clerk Boston Air Route Traffic Control Center

I guess Patty was a Dem.

[notadmblnd]

5. have the Republicans decided to take their House back from the teabaggers?

[Mass]

8. Once again, pundits (including progressive ones) are surprised that Paul Ryan voted NO.

This goes a long way to show the power of totally artificial memes, something we also saw last week, when pundits were saying Paul Ryan did something good when asking to the CBO to confirm we were talking about workers working less voluntarily.

Sorry, guys. Paul Ryan is nowhere near reasonable. Anybody who has looked at his record (and not at the media and conservatives' meme) knows that he was NEVER going to vote to raise the debt ceiling.

And anybody who knows anything about Paul Ryan understands that his comment about workmen working less (rather than jobs lost) was not about telling the truth, but about taking about the poverty trap and how helping poor people creates poverty (and slavery as some people agreeing with Ryan but less careful of their words would say).

I know that I will have to write this again and again, but I am frankly fed up by this idea and wished that, at least, progressive blogs try to report correctly about Paul Ryan and ITS IDEOLOGY. He is not evil. He is extremely conservative and libertarian on economic issues.