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By Joe Conason
Posted on Apr 8, 2011
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What the meteoric career of Paul Ryan demonstrates is how easily impressed we are whenever a politician purports to restore solvency by punishing the poor and the elderly (while coddling the rich). The Wisconsin Republican congressman’s fiscal plan has won rave reviews from both the usual right-wing suspects and some self-styled centrists, who have praised him and his proposals as “serious,” “courageous” and even “uplifting.”
By now, however, those who have actually examined the Ryan plan with care and competence know that those acclamations are highly exaggerated, which is probably a far too polite description.
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Enough With the Praise for Olympia
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Posted by Bob Lord I’ve really read and heard enough of the lionizing of
Olympia Snowe for her so-called moderate views. We’re of course going to
hear the ...
1 hour ago
