Paul Ryan: Let's Cover the Moon With Yogurt
Yesterday, by way of introducing a bit of Pelosi lunacy, I wrote that sometimes hyperbole is useful in making a point, while at other times it's just downright imbecilic. Nancy Pelosi's claim that she wanted to "save the world" from John Boehner was an instance of the latter category. But Paul Ryan's recommendation delivered on the floor of the House yesterday that we cover the moon with yogurt? Definitely an instance of the former.
We assume we’re going to be fighting this war for 10 more years, with over 100,000 troops in Afghanistan and oh, gosh, wait, we’re going to withdraw our troops in 2014. $1 trillion in savings. I’ve got a better idea. Let’s pass a bill to cover the moon with yogurt that will cost $5 trillion today. and then let’s pass a bill the next day to cancel that bill. We could save $5 trillion. Wait, I’ve got a better idea. Our debt is $14 trillion. Let’s come up with a new plan to spend $14 trillion, then rescind it the next day and let’s save $14 trillion. This stuff is fiscal fantasy. You can’t make this stuff up, Mr. Speaker.
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Apr '11
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Ryan just keeps getting better and better. I hope he runs for Senate in 2012 and then POTUS in 2016.
Edited on Jul 29, 2011 at 12:43pmMay '10
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Funny, except that Pelosi might latch onto the first half of Ryan's suggestion and forget about the cuts!
I can picture it now: the Lunar Tastiness Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2012. The GOP wants to cut 80% of the funding for a program that, if it were possible, would still provide no benefit - those extremists! Kind, reasonable Democrats are willing to sacrifice 5% of funding for the job-creating yogurt rocket program, but only if it's paired with increased revenues to pay for a Yogurt Rocket Engineer Displacement program.
Oct '10
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Wisconsin labor unions have just released a statement denouncing Ryan for not proposing to cover the moon with Wisconsin cheese made from the milk of union cows.
Dec '10
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Well played!
Feb '10
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Doesn't get much better than this :-]
Baseline budgeting is always accepted as the norm in Washington, but it shows how much of a bubble they are in that they can make all these statements about "cutting" trillions (and the media can parrot them) with a straight face.
Mar '11
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I don't know about yogurt....but, well, we all know the moon isn't made of green cheese, but what if it were made of barbecue spareribs, would you eat it then?
I know I would. I'd have seconds. And I'd polish it off with a tall cool Budweiser.
(It's Friday, people).
Jun '10
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Diego Sun Devil: Ryan just keeps getting better and better. I hope he runs for Senate in 2012 and then POTUS in 2016. · Jul 29 at 12:43pm
Edited on Jul 29 at 12:43 pm
Why not president in 2012 ???
Oct '10
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Oh Great, now the enviornmental folk will have to save the moon from yogurt !!!
There has to be a scifi movie in the wings....
May '11
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I thought the moon was made of cheese.
May '10
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Busy System Admin: Doesn't get much better than this :-]
Baseline budgeting is always accepted as the norm in Washington, but it shows how much of a bubble they are in that they can make all these statements about "cutting" trillions (and the media can parrot them) with a straight face. · Jul 29 at 12:55pm
Remember that Jimmuh Carter's economic program was built around Zero-Base Budgeting and Universal Sunset Laws for all programs? Would that he had meant it.
And that there was someone in Washington who was serious about reforming the Balanced Budget Act of 1985 and thus eliminating the "current services baseline".
Jun '10
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Jun '10
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Thomas Carlyle said, “No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.”
Ryan has a genuine sense of humor.
Has anyone ever actually seen Obama, Reid, or Pelosi engaging in genuine laughter? They smirk a lot, but have no real sense of humor (an attribute that requires people to be willing to laugh at themselves). A real sense of humor also requires a person to understand the tragic and absurd nature of life--liberals, of course, really believe they can perfect mankind (they plan, God laughs).
They're so busy saving the world from us troglodytes that they don't have time or the inclination to do anything other than demonize us or to sneer at our lack of sophistication. Better a WFB than a Ralph Nader any day.
Edited on Jul 29, 2011 at 1:19pmJan '11
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Double plus awesome! Sadly, Ryan and Christie will hit "presidential candidate maturity" at around the same time. (They could both do it now, but I mean on their terms).
Jun '10
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Ryan must have read this comment to a WSJ article yesterday
May '11
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tabula rasa: Thomas Carlyle said, “No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.”
Ryan has a genuine sense of humor.
Has anyone ever actually seen Obama, Reid, or Pelosi engaging in genuine laughter? They smirk a lot, but have no real sense of humor (an attribute that requires people to be willing to laugh at themselves). A real sense of humor also requires a person to understand the tragic and absurd nature of life--liberals, of course, really believe they can perfect mankind (they plan, God laughs).
They're so busy saving the world from us troglodytes that they don't have time or the inclination to do anything other than demonize us or to sneer at our lack of sophistication. Better a WFB than a Ralph Nader any day. · Jul 29 at 1:19pm
Edited on Jul 29 at 01:19 pm
Reid would have to be human to laugh. Pelosis' face is so tight that if she laughed her head would explode.
Jun '10
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thelonious
Reid would have to be human to laugh. Pelosis' face is so tight that if she laughed her head would explode. · Jul 29 at 1:34pm
Good point about Pelosi--I had forgotten to consider the impacts of cosmetic surgery. On the other hand, even with the limitations of her facial features, has she ever really said something funny? I can't remember one.
Are you suggesting that Reid is a zombie? That could explain a lot.
May '11
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tabula rasa
thelonious
Reid would have to be human to laugh. Pelosis' face is so tight that if she laughed her head would explode. · Jul 29 at 1:34pm
Good point about Pelosi--I had forgotten to consider the impacts of cosmetic surgery. On the other hand, even with the limitations of her facial features, has she ever really said something funny? I can't remember one.
Are you suggesting that Reid is a zombie? That could explain a lot. · Jul 29 at 1:45pm
I think Reid died in 1988. His handlers have been propping up his corpse like the dead guy from the classic movie "Weekend at Bernies." He also could be some kind of non-living or to use the politically correct term living -impaired being.
Jun '10
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thelonious
I think Reid died in 1988. His handlers have been propping up his corpse like the dead guy from the classic movie "Weekend at Bernies." He also could be some kind of non-living or to use the politically correct term living -impaired being. · Jul 29 at 2:09pm
Wouldn't the correct term be "living-impaired, lurching-capable being"?
May '10
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Just for the record, I am pro covering the moon in yogurt. Paul Krugman told me it would stimulate the economy.
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We should take up batches of yogurt to the moon one serving size container at a time. It would put unemployed Americans back to work!