Rep. Paul Ryan: Payroll tax fight 'caused damage' to GOP (+video)

Pauly: You Ain't Seen Noithin' YET! (To the Tune of My FAVORITE BACHMANN"s: (BTO's) Song by the same name! Expect a Blood-letting in November 2012! I haven't met ANYONE under 60 Who is voting Republican (meaning for Romney) in 2012!

Just a tip of the iceberg. The contraceptive thing didn't do you much good, or STILL insisting that GM alive is bad didn't help your case much either

LOBBYIST Grover Norquist held the leash too long on the payroll tax cut.
He damaged the GOP with his intrasigence.
If he'd let the GOP congressmen vote for the paryoll tax cut sooner this'd all be forgotten now.

Ryan is right that it damaged the GOP, but wrong about why. It damaged the GOP because a tax cut the house republicans had originally said the tax cut wasn't beneficial and shouldn't be renewed because it wouldn't create jobs, since it mainly benefitted the middle class and poor. In other words, the only tax cuts they support are the ones that only benefit the rich.

Strange that the GOP says that tax cuts to the rich will create jobs but they said this tax cut, for everyone, won't create jobs. Hmmm....

P.S. read the article and thousands of other ones that said the money for the tax cut is repaid to Social Security.

Wow, Ryan spun this issue so adroitly that I feel like my head is going to fall off.

this clown should be on the top ten list of people to get out this fall along with west, walsh, vitter, issa and five more that are too easy to find........

With the rise in price at the commodities exchanges I wonder if the congresspersons are trading heaily in tar and feathers?

The truth is that the Republicans have nothing to offer. Not even anything that looks like a governing philosophy. Conservatism has moved out of the ranks of political theories and simply become a cult; one that requires that certain phrases be mouthed, that certain hatreds be nourished, and that purity be maintained regardless of cost. That schism with reality is increasingly large and increasingly obvious. They try to paper over that gap by dismissing little things like science, reason, history. Real science fails to support their contentions, so they have to write it off. Reason doesn't work for them, so any question must be met with red-faced indignity — every question a gotcha question. Real history is full of warts, quirks, and unfortunate truths that don't fit their ritualized beliefs. So they have to try to rewrite history, giving us rewrite Reagan who never raised a tax or increased a debt, rewrite FDR who created the issues he actually solved, rewrite Lincoln who championed the Confederate cause, rewrite founding fathers who never owned slaves, never supported government regulation of the economy, never wavered in their ardent love for a form of religiosity that didn't yet exist. Tricorner hats are the new tinfoil.

The real danger isn't that someone might listen to the Republicans—anyone who lies long enough and loud enough can always find an audience, especially when that someone has three quarters of the television media and ninety+ percent of radio. The danger is that we might forget that they're lying. Too often Democrats, including this president, have felt that the best way to handle Republican fantasies is to compromise with them. You can't compromise reality, no no matter how loud the lies.

Republicans want to destroy Social Security and Medicare/Caid so, if you hear the Republicans want to make the Payroll Tax PERMANENT you better start calling your reps NOW to scream loudly about this! But since the Republiturds don't care about the what the American people want just rememeber, it was YOU, who voted for this scary and stupid CONgress.

The present Republican Party's train left the station some time ago, leaving behind moderates, thoughtful individuals and concerned citizens. It doesn't look like the train will return anytime soon as it is busy catering to the need of religious zealots, anti government demagogues and free market hucksters.

Well duh, thanks Mr. Obvious, Were you the last to know?

LOBBYIST Grover Norquist has a pledge not raise taxes from 99% of the GOP. If they do they get blasted with negative ads in the next election. Norquist is a LOBBYIST, a political operative who takes money from the rich and corporaitons to ensure they never get another tax increase. He also requires budget cuts for all tax cuts. Bush tax cuts did not requrie spending cuts since they primarialy help the rich. Payroll tax cuts, not so much. So Grover has been demanding matching spending cuts. We're nearing an election so to limit the damage, Norquist has suspended the demand and let his minions move on the bill.

the line between the mega rich and the people paying for to big to fail seems very clear.two tax systems being able to take on the lobby as hired help.its clear as hate.

Okay, let me make sure I get this straight. The guy who is the architect of the destruction of Medicare says that it's the senate's fault because BONER couldn't deliver the right amount of votes. I see, that explains it all now. The GOP: Living in an alternate universe.

The Republicans caused themselves damage in a number of ways. Overall the important messages from all of this is the American people by and large are tired of the calls of doom
heard from the Party that has caused this difficult time and refuses to change. We are moving ahead for better or for worse and your ideas are tired and stale.

LOL the buzzard is trying to point fingers now. He knows what was asked for and what his party tried to tie to it, so go cry with Boehner, you are dust in November.

When the Senate says no compromise, Republican's say they are against the people. When the House Republican's say no compromise, they say it is for the people!! Go figure

Hurt the GOP????
The GOP is destroying America

Got news for you the last three years worth of GOP shenanigans, misrepresentation of facts, distortion of facts, creating and turning fiction into what they claim are facts and just flat out ignoring facts have have caused damage to the GOP. Oh and don't forget Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky's. declaration: "Making Obama A One-Term President Is My Single Most Important Political Goal."