Paul Ryan Raises Money Off Of President Barack Obama's Budget Speech

Saying that President Barack Obama "isn’t interested in governing," House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan sent an email blast to supporters Tuesday in an effort to raise money off of Obama's speech attacking the GOP leader's budget.

Obama slammed Ryan's spending blueprint in the morning as "thinly veiled social Darwinism" and a "Trojan horse" that is aimed at "gutting the very things we need to grow an economy that's built to last."

Ryan, seeking donations for his Prosperity Action political action committee, lambasted the president's talk from top to bottom.

"When our opponents on the Left have no serious ideas of their own, they resort to emotional appeals that play up Americans’ fears about the future," Ryan argued. "Earlier today, in Washington, President Obama (whose budget failed in the House by a vote of 0-414) said the Path to Prosperity is a “Trojan horse” for “social Darwinism.” But not once did the President show the leadership that is required to put forward solutions of his own."

(Note: The budget that failed was not actually the president's but a series of spending caps that might result from the president's budget.)

"The President didn’t offer any clarity in his latest speech about what he would do to tackle our nation’s debt before it tackles us and it's still not clear how he’ll keep Medicare from going bankrupt," Ryan continued. "One thing is clear though, Barack Obama isn’t interested in governing or putting forward solutions to fix our nation’s problems."

Obama has offered a budget, however.

If there was any doubt that both sides intend to use spending plans as political weapons, Ryan cast his budget as showing "political courage," and said he wanted money to elect more people who agree with him.

"I’m going to support those who have stood with us in this fight," Ryan wrote. "I’m going to work with my allies and friends in the Senate to oust the failed Democratic leadership."

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Comments

[elizabeth gerteiny]

11:13 AM on 04/07/2012

President Obama on April 3, broke with staying above the fray, distinctly differentiating what his goals as president are from those of sure nominee Mitt Romney, who has made the Ryan budget plan his vehicle for election. Like his champion-in-chief Joe Biden, he named names, roundly denouncing the now Ryan/Romney budget, as Mr. Romney vowed a first act of his presidency would be passing the plan (besides revoking the Affordable Care law). The budget favors oil companies, companies that outsource, Wall Street and billionaires, not to mention its assaults on seniors, women, children, the middle class, the working poor and veterans.

Mr. Romney, Mr. Ryan and others are bent on further crippling our country in order to place blame on the president.

Mr. Romney would be as busy as progressives FDR and Mr. Obama in the first days of their administrations, but he would be taking us back in time.

The president is getting mad.
The GOP has changed its course,
Relying on its "Trojan Horse"---
A second budget plan as bad

As Ryan's first one and The Mitt
Is loudly out endorsing it
And once the radicals are in,
Buck up and take it on the chin

You ninety-niners, on your own,
Deep in the Ryan/Romney zone
Where all your sweet security
Has been replaced by liberty---

The more important thing, of course.
They'll tell you this without remorse.

Elizabeth Gerteiny
Author of The President Of War
www.bushandcompany.org

[moonlightnmagnolia]

01:15 PM on 04/04/2012

"No millionaire's child will find that Ryan's budget ends her hopes of a college
education. But plenty of lower-income children will. And in the
long run, that's bad for mobility, bad for growth and bad for
the country.""Not my post but really worth repeating.

[moneytree1001]

12:22 PM on 04/04/2012

Sweet............that is the best turn around in the business. Also to avoid this occurs again maybe Obama and his followers should tone down on putting down his opponent, then there is no need to feel bitter when your opponent able to turn around the situation for his own advantage, haha, Mr. Paul Ryan is laughing all the way to the bank.

[moonlightnmagnolia]

12:28 PM on 04/04/2012

The best turn around???? A republican getting money after the Presidents speech?? That's a turn around? Wow your really desperate!

[moneytree1001]

12:49 PM on 04/04/2012

"Paul Ryan Raises Money Off Of President Barack Obama's Budget Speech"

[Rowwdy]

11:01 AM on 04/04/2012

*Ryan should wear a full body Trojan because he's a ________!!!

[moneytree1001]

12:49 PM on 04/04/2012

I can say the same thing about Obama and his liberals friends

[ralynb]

01:35 AM on 04/26/2012

liberal friends................................thats deep

[moonlightnmagnolia]

01:12 PM on 04/04/2012

Magnum Sized.

[realsurfin]

10:55 AM on 04/04/2012

Talk about no clarity? Mittens Romney says he cannot tell you his policies because if he does he will lose... what is that? I get it loud and clear.. he is going to gut the middle class in the town square by cutting so much states will fold and file bankruptcy and make the mortgage crisis look like a bake sale.

and there he has Paul Ryan by his side... the man who has dedicated his career in serving the upper 10 percent a huge tax cut as he cuts off the poor, the unemployed, the seniors, women, and the middle class at the knee's

VOTE THESE GUYS OUT IN NOVEMBER.. DO TO MITT WHAT HE WOULD DO TO YOU... FIRE HIM! ITS YOUR CHANCE OWS... DON'T DROP THE BALL ON THIS ONE. SEND PAUL RYAN A STRONG MESSAGE... GIVE HIM THE POLITICAL BOOT.

[Kfrom WI]

10:07 AM on 04/04/2012

Ryan punishes the poor and middle class with failing schools. Crumbling infrastructure. Increase in poverty. Yet we will spend hundreds of billion of dollars on our bloated military budget. It is time to relocate spending on what really counts and stimulate our economy not the worlds economy.

[Clevelandinwi]

09:59 AM on 04/04/2012

Righties always collect money from their 'supporters' (aka kochs) in cases like this. ryan has enough money already from his 'friends' in the corporate world so this must be for wine.

[Paisano]

09:57 AM on 04/04/2012

Oh paaaaaleeeeze! This budget is going to be one of the key anchors that will kill the republicans in 2012! Get ready for a democratic landslide!!!! The debate has only just begun!!!!!!!!! We are going to hit them over the head with this for 7 months!!!

[badgerwoman]

09:39 AM on 04/04/2012

I certainly hope Ryan's constituents (which include my elderly parents) are sitting up and taking notice. Especially his old stomping ground, Janesville, which never has (and never will) recovered from GM closing up and moving out years ago. It is time for these people to stand up and vote him out of office.

[moneytree1001]

12:52 PM on 04/04/2012

whatever you say, but Ryan is laughing all the way to the bank!!!! ha!

[axoaxo]

11:38 PM on 04/04/2012

typical charlatan

[spinpaddle2]

09:48 PM on 09/04/2012

good job SEE ya

[Chanah]

09:23 AM on 04/04/2012

The answer Paul is, No. It isn't president Obama who scares me. It is actually you.

[moneytree1001]

12:54 PM on 04/04/2012

Thanks, I'll take that as a compliment, also I'll keep that in mind and hope to some day run for office, and impose the same fear on people like you as the Obama regime is doing now!

[shrinktalkingheads]

09:06 AM on 04/04/2012

This morning Joe Scarborough blasted President Obama's reaction to Paul Ryan.

Scarborough has had few problems with anything Republicans have had to say about the President's policies. On his show, Republicans line up to eviscerate them on a daily basis.

The interesting part to me was this morning, Scarborough was all flustered that the President was saying mean things about Ryan's proposals. It was like the bully being called out in the school yard. Scarborough couldn't handle it. Pathetic.

[moneytree1001]

12:58 PM on 04/04/2012

It is very unfortunate that News on T.V., shows whether on Fox or CNN or MSNBC, ABC, et al. can be misleading sometimes, they all have their own agendas and select carefully what they want to convey to their audiences, the American people. SO I DON'T WATCH THEM. Thank you for your thought, it was one of the most civil I read in response to my comment!

[Clevelandinwi]

08:59 AM on 04/04/2012

ryan, walker and leadership - a triple OXYMORON.

[moneytree1001]

12:59 PM on 04/04/2012

... laughing and skipping all the way to the bank, thanks to Obama!

[Clevelandinwi]

08:58 AM on 04/04/2012

paul ryan, and his good 'friend' scottie walker, conducting 'Class Warfare' at it's finest. These two must be listed among the most corrupt politicians of the present day. Add to that their 'War on Women' and you might have the worst in American history.

[moneytree1001]

01:01 PM on 04/04/2012

I think Obama and his crooked friends in the out of the White House are the most corrupted bunch in the American history and the whole world, the shade of the White House is polluted in their presence.

[Clevelandinwi]

08:02 AM on 04/05/2012

Are you a racist, or just a simple liar?

[Kfrom WI]

08:56 AM on 04/04/2012

I am sick of the GOP creating problems and blaming the great president Obama for it.

[moneytree1001]

01:02 PM on 04/04/2012

Yes and I am sick of Obama fails at everything and blames everything one everyone else for it, even bad weather, haha!

[Kfrom WI]

08:55 AM on 04/04/2012

Ryan is the one who keeps coming up with budgets that bankrupt medicare when he keeps giving money back to millionares and robbing from the middle class and poor. The president Obama has done more for the U.S.A. than the GOP have since the 80s. DEMs and Obama in 2012.

[moneytree1001]

01:03 PM on 04/04/2012

Welcome to earth Marsian!