Big Idea Man Paul Ryan Brown-Bagging It

Media darling and Big Idea Man Rep. Paul Lyin' Ryan (Objectivist-WI) had a story to tell at CPAC today. It was about one of those poor kids Ryan and Republicans loathe care so much about and a brown bag (no, not one that's burning on the front porch).  See if you can spot where Big Idea Man's logic train goes off the tracks:

Ryan insisted that liberals were only offering people “a full stomach and an empty soul.” 

He then told a story of a “young boy from a very poor family” who received free lunches at school “from a government program.” 

“He didn’t want a free lunch,” Ryan insisted. “He wanted his own lunch, one in a brown paper bag, just like the other kids.” 

“He wanted one, he said, because he knew a kid with a brown paper bag had someone who cared for him. This is what the left does not understand.”

Hmmm.  So, the kid's "very poor family" must not love him because they chose to take part in a school lunch program...  because they couldn't afford otherwise?  Ryan's solution:  let's take the kid's "free" lunch away!   Maybe discontinue mom or dad's unemployment benefits, too!  Then the kids will have an empty soul and an empty stomach!  Incentives!

Also:  Are there no workhouses?!

UPDATE:  Of course, it turns out Lyin' Ryan's story was bullshit.

Photo of the Day - The Rifleman Edition

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That's rifle-totin' Dan'l Boone Macho Mitch "Missy" McConnell at the nut fest CPAC today.  The chin-challenged Missy looks totally comfortable... and for realz, doesn't he?!

UPDATE:   Missy won't answer whether he even owns a gun.  In the photo above, he looks like he's offering the gun to someone else, doesn't he?

Send In The Clowns

The collection of right-wing diehards know collectively as the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, has descended on Washington, D.C. for their annual rage fest.  Starting today and ending on Saturday, the right-wing clown car will disgorge such "stars" as Sen. "Tailgunner Ted" Cruz, half-term Governor and full time grifter Sarah "Winky" Palin, and birther silver spooner Donald "Rump" Trump.  Even New Jersey Gov. and object-visible-from-space Chris "Krispykreme" Christie has been invited to speak, which shows that their hostility to the "media" outweighs (no pun intended) ideological purity.

The speakers' poo-flinging will predictably focus on Barack Hussein Muslim Community Organizer Commie Fascist Obama, some of whom will paint him as a tyrant, while others will paint him as a weak leader.  The divisions in the wingnut ranks will be exposed for all to see:  "libertarians" ready to shrink the Federal budget to zero and make Ayn Rand's garbage mandatory reading, American Talibangelists wanting to put the bible in every public school room and to take contraceptives out of every private bedroom, and the predatory big bidness sector that just wants the "freedom" to pollute, discriminate, and pay poverty wages to their employees after blocking attempts to unionize.

It's quite a collection of professional liars, misfits, paranoids and low-information goobers, and they wouldn't have it any other way.