At least he didn't have to watch the speech like he did
last year (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)
Poor little Paulie is pissed:
“History will not be kind to a president who, when it came time to confront our generation’s defining challenge, chose to duck and run,” Ryan said. “The president refuses to take responsibility for the economy and refuses to offer a credible plan to address the most predictable economic crisis in our history.”
Um, speaking of history not judging things kindly, how does Paul Ryan think history would judge a political party (say, for example, the GOP) that refused to learn from their past mistakes (say, for example, the failure of trickle-down economics in the Bush years) and insisted on trying them all over again (say, for example, with the Romney-Ryan plan)? And speaking of taking responsibility, how about Paul Ryan taking responsibility for supporting what Bush and the Republicans did to our economy after the Clinton years?
“Like his reckless budgets, today’s speech by President Obama is as revealing as it is disappointing: While others lead by offering real solutions, he has chosen to distort the truth and divide Americans in order to distract from his failed record,” added Ryan, who is in Wisconsin campaigning with Mitt Romney ahead of Tuesday’s primaries there.
The only thing reckless here is Paul Ryan's plan to cut the top income tax bracket to
25 percent, and the only thing dividing Americans is Ryan's insistence that the poor and middle-class should be asked to pay for those tax cuts. And the failed record doesn't belong to President Obama, it belongs to Republicans and George W. Bush. President Obama in three years already has a better private sector job creation record than George W. Bush in eight. And it's going to get even better. And given those facts, it's no surprise that Paul Ryan would rather make up stuff about President Obama than actually talk about how we got to where we are.