The Paul Ryan Recession

     You have to give it to Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley, he gave a great speech on Tuesday and he answered Paul Ryan's sanctimonious attempt to attack the President over today's disappointing jobs report the right way.

     He turned it right back on Ryan. Ryan is great at pointing fingers. He regularly reproaches the President because for not doing Simpson-Bowles when he himself walked out on it and even told other Republicans not to do it.

     He has been trying to blame the President for a plant that closed before he got in office. When confronted Lying Ryan claims he never said Obama did close it but then he adds that it's another example of a a broken promise.

     Then there's Ryan's attacks on both ObamaCare and the President's stimulus although he applied for funds for both.

      His explanation this time? OK, he did, but he only asked by accident. Ryan was of course, an eager beaver to get on Fox after the numbers missed. Of course, The GOP during this four years has done nothing to repair the economy but they sure love to blame the President when the numbers don't look so good one month.

      "O’Malley’s MSNBC appearance came shortly after Ryan said in a CNBC interview from Nevada that the 96,000 jobs employers added in August “is not even close to what a recovery looks like.”
“I would argue this is the result of failed leadership in Washington, bad fiscal policy coming from the administration,” Ryan said.

     http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/maryland-politics/post/omalley-knocks-ryan-for-sluggish-jobs-report/2012/09/07/2fc72a9e-f918-11e1-8398-0327ab83ab91_blog.html

     O'Malley had the perfect answer for the self-righteous Ryan:

     " Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) said Friday that the weaker-than-expected national jobs report could have been stronger if not for Paul Ryan and other Republican “obstructionists” in Congress.
“Paul Ryan voted against every single jobs bill sent by President Obama to the Congress,” O’Malley, a frequent campaign surrogate for Obama, said during a morning appearance on “Jansing and Company” on MSNBC."

     That's a great point. Why does Ryan not focus on his own record during this 4 years: he has not created a single job. Remember that the President doesn't write legislation anyway, That's the province of the House. However, the House GOP has seen it in their interest to do everything to obstruct the recovery in the assumption that the American people would wrongly blame the President.