Paul Ryan, PWND.

Paul Ryan got PWND.

Ryan got up this weekend to say that there was no way Republicans were going to vote for increasing the debt ceiling unless there were cuts.  Ah the hypocrisy.

Just as Obama said last Friday: Ryan voted for the Iraq War, the 2001 tax cuts and the 2003 acceleration of the 2001 tax cuts, and the expansion of Medicare in 2003, and in four good years of economic growth, increased the federal debt by $1.36T.

Good years of economic growth are supposed to PAY DOWN DEBT, no?  But if one can recall, the rhetoric of GWB during the 2000 Presidential debates, laid out the excesses of federal spending as something that needed to be returned to the American people (via tax cuts) instead of paying down debt.

But the Republicans have no choice other than to vote for raising the debt ceiling, because their own plan (Path to Prosperity) requires it!  No wait, I take that back, because a deficit spending plan under Republicans is an apparent, acceptable hypocrisy.

And if they fail to vote to raise the debt ceiling in a timely fashion because they wish to put politics in front of the larger issue, they will get all the blame as the economy begins to shrink (and rapidly if they fail to increase the debt ceiling.)

So there is no end game for Republicans...we know the outcome already.

Suckers.