Speaker Paul Ryan is at the National Review Institute’s Ideas Summit today along with other mental midgets like Senator Tom Cotton. One of the things these overpaid charlatans are discussing is Medicaid and Medicare and how they can pretend they’re being fiscally conservative by destroying it. But just how bad are conservative “ideas” at a conservative “Ideas Summit”?
If you don’t know who Rich Lowry is, bless you. Spoiler alert: he’s a conservative racist asshole. So young conservative guns Rich Lowry and Paul Ryan have been fantasizing about getting rid of old people and financially struggling people’s health services since they were throwing up in dorm room toilets and slow dancing with each other to Extreme’s “More Than Words.” It’s good to know that Ryan’s worldview is as obtuse as it has always been. Here’s Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello expressing that fundamental flaw in Ryan’s arrested development, in response to Paul Ryan’s assertion that Rage was his favorite music.
Don't mistake me, I clearly see that Ryan has a whole lotta "rage" in him: A rage against women, a rage against immigrants, a rage against workers, a rage against gays, a rage against the poor, a rage against the environment. Basically the only thing he's not raging against is the privileged elite he's groveling in front of for campaign contributions.
You see, the super rich must rationalize having more than they could ever spend while millions of children in the U.S. go to bed hungry every night. So, when they look themselves in the mirror, they convince themselves that "Those people are undeserving. They're . . . lesser." Some of these guys on the extreme right are more cynical than Paul Ryan, but he seems to really believe in this stuff. This unbridled rage against those who have the least is a cornerstone of the Romney-Ryan ticket.
All of the Republican ideas are old and failed, but without a single critical thinker in the bunch, they will just troll on forward like a spoiled rich kid, learning nothing, until someone stops paying their bills for them.