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Great speaker. It makes a change to hear someone not accepting the lies and half truths of the right.

Sounds like he actually means what he says too, that seems rare enough ina politician these days.

fuckin a right

And when 12 billion dollars went missing, we didn't call you unpatriotic. By the way, you wouldn't by any chance know where it went would you?

thanks for this audio norm. your the best!

Where has this kind of Democrat been for the last.... well when was the last time any of them had any balls? It would be great to see the video, anyone know if the guys head exploded?

Yes indeed. We've called the Republicans incompetent, corrupt, avaricious, venal, hypocritical, cowardly, and generally a disgrace to the offices they hold and the country and Constitution they serve so poorly, but not unpatriotic.

Way to go, Mr. Ryan

Woah! That is freakin' INSPIRING! I've not heard/seen anything that great since the Freddy Rogers thing. This is awesome. Makes me want to re-watch "Mr. Smith Goes To Washington."

Great find, thanks.

I agree with Anonymous... Where was this kind of righteous outrage from the center and left before last November? And not just from politicians, who rightfully adapt to their constituency, but from the media as well. Does the prevailing party have some sort of control over all media? Scary thought.

Anon & Will: Just because you don't see it on the evening news and it doesn't make its way onto this site doesn't mean people aren't out there shaking an angry fist.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8gANbwU5yg

I'm proud to say that Mr. Ryan is my Congressman and that I helped to re-elect him to his position.

Oh God. The left is just as stupid as the right is sometimes, stop pretending the right is the only side that makes mistakes.

And what's hypocritical about not wanting babies to be killed, but instead wanting to find and seek out bad men and kill them? The difference is the enemy is oppressing and harassing people, the baby hasn't done anything.

"Hypocritical Republicans". Yeah right. And you Democrats are any better?

@EB:

I'm proud to say that Mr. Ryan is my Congressman and that I helped to re-elect him to his position.

I would like to shake your hand! And all the other people who voted for this eloquent and relatively level-headed politician. :)

@Mulletar:

...stop pretending the right is the only side that makes mistakes.

Most US Democrats are humble enough to admit that they're not perfect... in terms of mistakes they are currently at a distant second place. ;)

And what's hypocritical about not wanting babies to be killed, but instead wanting to find and seek out bad men and kill them?

They're not talking about the deaths of enemy combatants. They're talking about the predictable and inevitable civilian casualties (many of them women and children) and also the death and mutilation of US soldiers. These mostly innocent people have been deliberately put in harms way for questionable benefit ("questionable benefit" being rather an understatement at this juncture).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1LJD9EGOX4&NR

here's the video for that sound clip.

mulletar, you're an idiot. are you saying that if someone raped your mother, sister, girlfriend, or wife you wouldn't want them to have the option of being able to abort the child? would you want to raise a child that you did not father simply because you did not believe in allowing your wife to have an abortion? would you want her to live with a constant reminder of one of, if not the most psychologically traumatic events in her life?

go fuck yourself, you're a shit head.

mulletar, you're an idiot.

Fantastic opening argument.

are you saying that if someone raped your mother, sister, girlfriend, or wife you wouldn't want them to have the option of being able to abort the child? would you want to raise a child that you did not father simply because you did not believe in allowing your wife to have an abortion? would you want her to live with a constant reminder of one of, if not the most psychologically traumatic events in her life?

go fuck yourself, you're a shit head.

Yeah, I would. Rape doesn't justify murder, and most raped mothers feel better having the child or giving up the child than killing the child anyways.

You sir are the shit head for intentionally singling out a baby to be killed. Mistakes happen in war, but they are mistakes and are becoming less and less likely as time and technology go by. Besides, shouldn't you be arguing about the terrorists who run into marketplaces and kill their own people?

Ah... messed up my quote system.

"go fuck yourself, you're a shit head." is a quote, not what I said.

Here's the video of this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhi5XSdqjAQ

Regardless of where Ryan stands on other issues, this is a a great way to end the debate on H. Res 63. I listened to most of the debate on Cspan and every speaker from the right opposing the resolution sounded like a parrot repeating "they don't support our troops", "sending the wrong message", "I won't vote for a do-nothing resolution" and I was getting sick of hearing it. Ryan calls out the flawed arguments from the right and backs up his points with facts and numbers about Iraq. We need more time spent on this in Congress and less time passing BS resolutions to name roads and thank retired politicians like we saw in the last congress.

As good as this speech was, the left needs to also give specific names of people who are lying and misleading the american people. A good example is how Obama reacted to the Steve Doocy smear.

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/politics/10836367/detail.html

They need to give names and hold the right accountable by using their own words and contradictions to hang them.

"Republicans, you go to war with the president you have, not the President you want."

Brilliant!

He has my vote in '08. :)

To the abortion-equals-murder crowd, when you have full funerals for every single embryo that doesn't make it to birth ... all those "babies" that mother nature spontaneously aborts, then perhaps it would then be fair not to think of you as unthinking hypocrites. Till then, then you might want to reconsider the bright line test of what society should consider to be a person.

i want a t shirt that reads "i do not yield"!!

brilliant i, too , am from oHIo... and he makes me proud... sounds like someone has caught a few episodes of the British House of Commons "Prime Minister's Questions" (they know how to tear up a debate... check out "10 Downing Street" on 'the google' look for prime minsters questions and watch the fur fly)

its refreshing to hear someone speak something more than truthiness((c) Stephen Colbert) without hiding behind facades

Let me ask all you anti abortion wing nuts a question. How many children have you adopted? How many pregnancies (not your own) have you financed to term? How many pregnant women have you taken into your home? If the answer is "none" then please STFU and give me a break.

Look, there is no way you can be pro-life and think the Iraq war is morally justified.

Pro-lifers think it's wrong to do stem cell research because it's wrong to destroy innocent life to potentially save future lives.

So how many innocent Iraqis have definitely died because of our misguided attempt to theoretically protect lives from phantom WMDs and "terrorist" insurgents?

So why is it okay to sacrifice their lives but not okay to destroy embryos? Are the lives of Iraqis worth less than the embryos of Americans?

Blooper: Are the lives of Iraqis worth less than the embryos of Americans?

They won't admit it, but the fundies' actions speak a horrifying "Yes."

Great audio clip. Glad to see someone is standing up for our troops, unlike cheney and the bushmonkey who just keep wringing blood out of them to keep the money flowing. What just amazes me(or maybe not so much any more) is that the repubs in Congress are still voting with Chimpy McFlightsuit when it comes to critical issues such as the ill-conceived troop surge, even tho many of them have agreed that the war is going badly and another troop surge most likely won't help. They are a confused, meat-headed bunch who cut their own noses off to spite their faces. Even when the American people have spoken loud and clear, they stubbornly cling to their flawed and dangerous ideology and disasterous Iraq police action, even tho they KNOW it's wrong and counterproductive. What this insanity tells me is that there are goings on behind the scenes; if certain (repub) members of Congress don't vote a certain way on certain issues, they will receive a visit from "Da Bing."

Wow. I wish Tim Ryan was my Congressman. Instead I get an ass who goes around insulting Kieth Ellison.

Susan, you said,

"Blooper: Are the lives of Iraqis worth less than the embryos of Americans?

They won't admit it, but the fundies' actions speak a horrifying "Yes."

Well, to the fundie elite the Iraqis do qualify Susan; after all, they're poor with brown skin, right?

mulletar, you're an idiot.

Fantastic opening argument.

I agree. I always startr all mys arguments with the most pertanent fact.

the fetuses that are aborted are wayyy less conscious than a squirrel.
right and wrong should be based on suffering.. and there are many cases in which there would be less overall suffering by getting an abortion. end of story.

the only thing that is wrong is to cause suffering.. and you vote to increase it.. hence, you are a bad person.

It will get worse, PNAC/AEI crowd want war with Iran: http://takingaimradio.com/m3u/takingaim070213.m3u

Brzezinski dropped a bomb shell recently saying that a false flag operation might occur inside USA to justify the bombing and invasion of Iran. Ron Paul has also warned about a new gulf of Tonkin indicent to justify war.

All part of "creating our own reality". The neocons need to be stopped.

Thank you for posting this clip. I have been reading your site for a month or so now and am always appreciative. Keep up the good word-spreading goodness.

Wow.

Wow.

i made a shirt for bad drivers that says i dont yield, good timing huh? look on cafepress.

"Where was this kind of righteous outrage from the center and left before last November?"

Tim Ryan and others have been telling it like this for quite a while, well before the election.

"Wow. I wish Tim Ryan was my Congressman. Instead I get an ass who goes around insulting Kieth Ellison."

You're from Virgil Goode's district? I used to live there too.

You go to war with the president you have, not the president you wish you had. Ouch!

Not wanting babies killed, Mulletar? Huh? There's a great non sequitur.

I'm not saying that you don't know what you are ranting on about. But I am saying we don't know what you are ranting on about. Might I suggest commenting on topic. It usually works out better that way.