"Atlas Scrubbed" - Paul Ryan Fakes Charity at Ohio Soup Kitchen

From CBS News

Brian J. Antag, president of the Mahoning County St. Vincent De Paul Society in Youngstown, told the Washington Post that the Romney campaign had not asked to make the Saturday visit to the soup kitchen. He said that he runs an apolitical faith-based organization which has bylaws barring it from hosting political candidates, and that the visit jeopardized donations from private individuals.

"They showed up there and they did not have permission," he said. "They got one of the volunteers to open up the doors." Antag added that Ryan and his family "did nothing" while on the premises.

"He just came in here to get his picture taken at the dining hall," he said.

Our campaign and Congressman Ryan were pleased to bring attention to the meaningful charitable contributions the St. Vincent De Paul Society makes to people in need.
~ Chris Maloney, director of communications in Ohio for the Romney Campaign (rhymes with baloney)

Sin....Sin.... big old ugly SIN = Using the POOR as a campaign prop
~ comment by The Fighting Irish on Washington Post

This is the future for our seniors under Ryan, BTW..line up for charity because your government guarantees, the ones you paid into all those years, will disappear and that Medicare voucher will just about cover pre-lim's.
~ comment by hrayovac2 on Washington Post

Atlas Scrubbed.
~ comment by Travis Pitts on Washington Post



All I really need to know about Paul Ryan I Learned From This Soup Kitchen Photo Op
~ avengerco on Tumblr

It would have been more appropriate for him to dress like P90X Paul Ryan.
~ comment by Evilito on New York Mag

You didn't scrub that!
~ comment by Cags on New York Mag

Dude! Rage Against the Tureen!
~ comment by FiscalClifford on New York Mag

Note the spotless apron, and the, I'm guessing, water-proof watch.
~ comment by liberalagogo on Daily Kos

Out! Out damn'd spot!
~ comment by Anne Elk on Daily Kos

Actually, it had nothing to do with staging a "reg'lar" guy photo of Rep. Ryan donning an apron and washing dishes.
He was merely trying to find a water source.
I mean, come on. After Thursday night's performance, we know how important hydration is to Ryan.
The apron was a ruse. Workout boy needed to rehydrate.
Minutes after this photo was taken, he was seen tearing off the top of a fire hydrant right outside the building.
~ comment by Bender Rodriguez on Daily Kos

Paul Ryan wants to be Pontius Pilate and wash his hands of the poor.
~ comment by LakeSuperior on Daily Kos

We think soup kitchen patrons are lazy moochers but we care deeply about them all the same.
~ comment by PianoMan on Daily Kos

So, you know, still lying.
~ Wonkette

Those children look like they have never seen a pot or pan in their lives.
~ comment by MissTaken on Wonkette

He's acting out Grover Norquist's old fantasy of dragging government to the bathtub (or in this case, an industrial sink) and drowning it. With the help of his kids
~ comment by LastGasp on Wonkette

Ayn cringed while Atlas mugged.
~ comment by Barto on Wonkette

Ryan Says 30% are "Takers, Not Makers" ~ homage to Ayn Rand

Seventy percent of Americans want the American dream. They believe in the American idea. Only 30 percent want the welfare state. Before too long, we could become a society where the net majority of Americans are takers, not makers.
~ Vice Presidential Candidate Paul Ryan, via Huffington Post

“Public welfare is the welfare of those who do not earn it; those who do, are entitled to no welfare.”
— John Galt
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (Part 3, Chapter 7)


And what is notable about these and will effect the debate tomorrow is that Mr. Ryan makes the same case that Mitt Romney was making when he made those devastating 47 percent remarks. In Mr. Ryan’s case, he doesn’t use the phrase ’47 percent.’ He picks a slightly different figure. For him, the figure is 30 percent.
. . . This idea that a large proportion of the country are just dependent, mooching victims to whom the American dream is inapplicable, who are beyond the reach of the kind of politics the Republican ticket is offering, it turns out it is both guys on the ticket who believe that.
~ Rachel Maddow on MSNBC, quoted by Raw Story

Why is Ryan dissing the GOP base?
~ comment by BOBINMO on Huffington Post

I don't mind Paul saying that because he has a vast experience outside the government. Oh wait.......
~ comment by Enlightened22 on Huffington Post

Ryan's family's construction company was successful...on GOVERNMENT CONTACTS for rural highways...
Ryan funded his college with SOCIAL SECURITY...
after a short run in the private sector as the Oscar Mayer We_in_er Moblie Driver...
has spent the last 14 YEARS ON THE GOVERNMENT PAYROLL...
in which time he authored TWO BILLS. That's ONE BILL every 7 YEARS.
It sounds to me like he's the one living off the taxpayer and not wanting to work.
~ comment by EllisIsland on Huffington Post

47% layabouts? 30% lazy bums? Who's right about Americans? Mitt Romney or Paul Ryan?
Peas in a pod. Both Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan have complete disdain for a large portion of Americans. They just disagree about whether nearly half are lazy, Obama-voting bums unwilling to give up their government handouts or nearly a third are.
. . . The contempt with which this pair holds tens of millions of Americans oozes from their pores and other orifices. On that score, we should consider ourselves lucky. Many plutocrats have learned how to conceal their scorn, making them far more palatable to voters who don't look past their veneer.
~ Meteor Blades on Daily Kos

Ryan actually used Makers and Takers. No dog whistles with that guy. Straight up Rand.
~ comment by greblos on Daily Kos

Nobody told Ryan that Atlas Shrugged was a work of fiction. Bad fiction at that.
~ comment by Happy Camper on Daily Kos



pic via HistoricalRomneys

Report: 30% want Paul Ryan to play the next Batman. 70% wish he would go away & become lifetime president of Wisconsin Ayn Rand society.

— Pat Bateman(@PBatemanNY) October 3, 2012

On the bright side, Ryan has written off 17% fewer of the American people than Romney: huff.to/Wg0gYY
— Arianna Huffington (@ariannahuff) October 2, 2012

Paul Ryan, who is 50% of the most out-of-touch ticket in memory, says 30% of Americans "want their welfare state." j.mp/SwShGq
— The Democrats (@TheDemocrats) October 2, 2012

Paul Ryan, privileged white kid born into wealth, shuttled through private school straight into gov't, telling us who's working hard enough.

— David Roberts (@drgrist) October 2, 2012

Paul Ryan struggling. Reads Ayn Rand till the Ambien kicks in, sleeps till noon, and just doodles sketches of himself in Congress all day.

— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) September 28, 2012

PAUL RYAN: "Ayn Rand taught me my values." AYN RAND: "The morality of altruism will destroy civilization." Umm, any questions?

— CJ Werleman (@rationalists) September 26, 2012