Tag Archives: Paul Ryan

The Real Progressives

In a comment at my home blog, and in related comments at her own blog, J.E. Dyer has ably encapsulated the negative responses of numerous conservatives to my post on “The Point of Being Annoyed with Glenn Beck.” J.E. concedes some of her own hesitations regarding Beck (as she did, implicitly, throughout “Beck and the [...]

K-Lo’s My Homie

For whatever reason, my personal brand of self-expression seems to tickle Kathryn. What can I say?  After 6 minutes of actuarial foreplay, with a climax of “If you think that [the American people] want a government takeover of health care, I respectfully submit, you aren’t listening to them,” my conservative bodice is officially ripped.   What [...]

Consider this angle on what Ryan is doing:

The unbridled, technocratic arrogance of this administration has acted like a time machine. Obama and the Dims have, deficit wise, leapt at least 10 years into the future. The ever-over-the-horizon inevitable fiscal catastrophe of the committed welfare state has been brought rudely into the present tense for all of us to gape at in shock. [...]

Who’s afraid of Paul Ryan?

In the process of responding to Paul Ryan’s “Roadmap for America’s Future (2.0),” veteran economics writer Robert J Samuelson provides a useful summary for those who don’t have the time or inclination to read the proposal in all its generous detail.  Along the way, Samuelson summarizes his own views on the subject, while taking it [...]

My fantasy is better than your fantasy

Paul Ryan may be the best and the brightest Republican in Congress, maybe the best and the brightest in the world, and he’s also got a best/bright web site up for his just re-published “Roadmap for America’s Future (2.0).”  I’ve hardly even begun to look it over, but I’ve seen Ryan’s media appearances, including his [...]

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