BUSTED: Watch TARP Republican Paul Ryan Begging Congress To Vote For The Bailout
Video: Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) on the House floor during the debate over TARP - Sept. 29, 2008 - Click play, and it will start automatically at Ryan's speech.
Runs just 5 minutes.
- "My fellow colleagues, we've heard a lot of non-sense and naysaying this morning, some of it hard to believe, but the pile of bullshit I'm about to deliver, is going to be massive."
We finally found the footage of Paul Ryan (R-WI) begging his colleagues to vote for TARP. (When you watch, you'll see exactly why this footage isn't highlighted on his youtube page.) We like Ryan's stance on fiscal responsibility, but he voted for the bailout while clearly having no clue as to why he was voting for it. Like most TARP supporters, he couldn't come up with one good reason why they should vote for TARP. Instead, he gives the same stuff we've been hearing for two years -- the stale metaphors, the fear-mongering, the whining about how difficult it is to vote for TARP, etc. Ugh. Select quotes below.
- "We also made sure that the executives of these companies that made these bad bets don't profit from this rescue recovery plan." [LOL this blows his credibility clean out of the water]
- "This Wall St. crisis is quickly becoming a Main St crisis." [yeah, because you guys are about to f*** us over by bailing out Wall St.]
- "If it goes the way it could go, that means credit shuts down. Businesses can't get money to pay their payroll....Students can't get student loans for next semester. People can't get car loans. Seniors may not have access to their savings." [Fear-Mongering 101: this is straight from the Paulson and Bernanke playbook]
- "Are we standing at the edge of this abyss? Nobody knows. But maybe. It's very probable." [OK, he both admits and demonstrates that he has no clue, and neither doesn anyone else, but they're going to vote for TARP anyway, by gum -- just fantastic]
- "Madam Speaker, this bill offends my principles. But I'm gonna vote for this bill -- in order to preserve my principles." [yes, now we know exactly how much Paul Ryan's "principles" are worth -- probably within a nickel or two of John Boehner's "principles"]
- "This is a Herbert Hoover moment. He made some big mistakes after[???] the Great Depression."
- "All eyes of the world markets are here on congress. It's a heavy load to bury. It's a heavy load to bear." [aw, poor little congressman...]
- "Colleagues, we're in the moment....We're here. We're in this moment. And if we fail to do the right thing, heaven help us. If we fail to pass this, I fear the worst is yet to come." [if Ryan had decided at this point to don some kind of feathery tribal head dress, wave his hands in the air, and shout absolute, inarticulate gibberish, he might have actually made more sense -- "we're in the moment"??? ]
- "I believe with all my heart, as bad as it is, it could get a whole lot worse. And that's why I think we have to pass this bill." [belief based on what? this is a totally fact-free rationale Ryan gives here -- all of it -- TOTAL FAIL]
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- "My fellow colleagues, we've heard a lot of non-sense and naysaying this morning, some of it hard to believe, but the pile of bullshit I'm about to deliver, is going to be massive."
Oct 10, 2011 at 3:43 PM
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I don't feel protected, I feel violated...
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OK, I'm a little slow. I was about to check the sound.
It's been over two years now and not one bailout supporter has come forward to answer even a single question from Rep. Kucinich concerning TARP:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaF_MZVWM3E
This kid is an empty suit punk. The fact that the GOP all defer to this kid (and Eric Cantor) is downright scary. Oh, Paul Ryan is the most serious man on earth, didn't you hear. He's a punk in way over his head. The bankers will pick his bones clean even if he thinks he's doing the right thing.
Conclusion: Lightweight/Empty Suit.
If you do not realize this, then you can be diagnosed as a sheeple. However, I am sure most do understand this.
so WHY bother with this crap at all? Why are these articles even printed? Is there some satisfaction that is gained personally, or are they used to convince yourself further?
All the politicians are liars. Deceivers. Treasonous. That's the bottom line. And what remains is WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO ABOUT IT.
You see the French, the Greeks, the Germans and the Brits raising hell. Where are the Americans? Where is the outrage?
WAKE UP AMERICA! SOON THERE WILL BE NO AMERICA.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d5iIoCiI8g&feature=player_embedded
so WHY bother with this crap at all? Why are these articles even printed? Is there some satisfaction that is gained personally, or are they used to convince yourself further?
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we're not sheeple...we publish in order to create awareness for others...
Thanks for posting. You guys are doing a great job!!
@ dogismyth...no worries...thanks for hanging around...you'll find the regulars and most of the passers-by are very aware types...hyper-aware even...it's a pretty smart community of angry souls...as you obviously know, what really needs to happen is for the under-35 crowd to wake up the generational rape and pillaging...when that happens there will be some noise...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSCMd9OIUE4
What's right for the country. Ha.
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LOL He even had to ask for more time.
Thanks for forcing me to listen to this windbag again because he's clearly reading from the same script as Paul Ryan. Listen at about 2:20 -- mortgages, car loans, student loans, payroll, etc. Same script. Also, at about 3:20, we get to hear about how "heroic" these jackasses were for not accepting Paulson's blank check. Oooh, they worked sooo hard to "protect taxpayers." Same script. Also, he points out that we are "not handing over 700B" to Wall St. Same script.
Clearly, certain aspects of the push for TARP were planned, scripted, orchestrated. Exactly how far that goes is hard to say.
excellent clip...thanks for posting...
Bingo, DB. Ryan is the fresh young face sent out to deliver what the GOP old guard could not without rousing the ire of older generaltions. Philosophically, this is a rerun of the financial crisis of the 80s. The exact same rhetoric is being rolled out to facilitate the continued transfer of wealth. PRIVATIZATION was all the rage in the Reagan administration. Ryan is a lying fool to claim that privatizing Medicare will save money. Privatization has a record to stand on now, and it's not good.
Privatizing Medicare shouldn't be folded into a budget debate. It results in a direct transfer of tax dollars to private companies. It leaves cost increases open-ended and will put retired people into a vice-grip of having to buy the mandated insurance as well as pay all cost increases. Why not just dig open trench graves for us?
Here is a thought. Since Social Security and Medicare are ANNUITIES that working people pay into their entire working lives for the purpose of keeping old people from finishing out their years living under overpasses - and it's not our fault that we paid in in fewer (more valuable) dollars because the government and Federal Reserve have been debasing the economy, and healthcare profits are to the moon - but hey, I'm a reasonable person when I'm not hoping the next time Congress sees an abyss they'll leap into it.
Suggestion: Let us make a two-tier healthcare system. Make a basic plan of care for all citizens that is run as universal healthcare. Follow Kitzhaber's Oregon Healthcare plan by setting what the plan can afford to cover. Let the government negotiate costs instead of being blackmailed into paying whatever costs business wants to charge. Then have a second tier of care where those richer can afford private plans that would pay for the triple organ transplant and the face lift at 90.
A dual plan would provide compassionate, humanitarian concern for our fellow citizens, while the benefits of being a rich bastard would be preserved to keep the peasants aspiring. Wall Street could still have lots of stock schemes, but the majority of people would no longer be held hostage to that greed. Win-win.
99% RULES!!