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Tuesday, September 11, 2012

2012 Paul Ryan Consistently Votes Against the Heroes of 9/11

Posted by Paul Constant on Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 1:42 PM

Daily Kos explains the awful truth about Paul Ryan and 9/11:

The James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, the law that created the World Trade Center Health Program to provide compensation for illnesses for the first responders and residents of the surrounding neighborhoods, has been expanded to include coverage for a variety of cancers...Paul Ryan was among those Republicans voting against providing coverage to the 9/11 heroes. He voted against it in July 2010. He voted against it in September 2010. He didn't vote against final passage in December 2010 because he's already skipped town for the holiday break. But when Congress reconvened in January, he gave a floor statement saying that he would have voted against it, again.

Ryan called the law "a new health care entitlement" in that floor statement. Gotta hand it to the guy: When he shifted gears from Bush-friendly neocon to teabagger poster boy in 2009, he didn't do so in half-measures. Calling 9/11 first responders greedy welfare queens takes a whole lot of nerve.

(Thanks, Slog tipper Ben.)

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Where's the profit in helping them?

It's wasted money. They're poor... no poor person ever gave me a job.

Good work Ryan.

Posted by Urgutha Forka on September 11, 2012 at 1:50 PM

So much for not politicizing 9/11 on 9/11.

Posted by Free Lunch on September 11, 2012 at 2:09 PM

Ryan follows Ayn Rand, and subscribes to Objectivism.

It's a philosophy that views Altrusim as Evil; actual capital-E Evil. All else follows.

Most people wouldn't want to have lunch with an Objectivist, let alone live in a society designed by one.

Posted by John Galt on September 11, 2012 at 2:12 PM

@3 I would, however, like to kick an Objectivist in the nuts.

Posted by Hernandez

on September 11, 2012 at 2:18 PM

@3: Objectivism is also explicitly atheistic. Yet Ryan is an avowed Catholic with no compunctions about offering religious justifications for policy. So it's fair to say that there may be some wee inconsistencies in his worldview.

Posted by Proteus on September 11, 2012 at 2:24 PM

@5: And yet, many shades of atheism have no problem with altruism and ethical behavior.

I think it's just an excuse to be a misanthropic dick.

Posted by Cracker Jack on September 11, 2012 at 2:35 PM

How about this for a "market solution" Ryan? I'm gonna watch your ticket go down in flames in November, _and_ make a killing on Intrade with a zero-sum bet I made with your dead-ender supporters.

Fuck you.

Posted by John Galt on September 11, 2012 at 2:35 PM

@7 The comment, story and your screen name come together deliciously

Posted by Pick1 on September 11, 2012 at 2:46 PM

Biden better hit this hard in the VP debate. This should sink Ryan's political career. I'm afraid it won't, however, given the total America hating the Right has given themselves over to since Obama's election.

Posted by DavidG