Paul Ryan’s Deficit Reduction Fairy Tales: Part One
Many of my recent posts have focused on fairy tales I thought the President would tell in the SOTU and also those that he did tell. The reason for this is that I think people on the left have a greater...
View ArticlePaul Ryan’s Deficit Reduction Fairy Tales: Part Two
Here’s Part Two of my textual analysis of the deficit reduction portion of Paul Ryan’s Republican response to the SOTU. Then the President and his party made matters even worse, by creating a new...
View ArticlePaul Ryan On Limited Government
In my last two posts I reviewed the deficit reduction aspects of Paul Ryan’s Republican response to the SOTU. But Ryan also placed considerable emphasis on the idea of “limited government” in his...
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Ryan’s Follies: A Crushing Burden of Public Debt
Paul Ryan (photo: love4utah / flickr) In celebration of Paul Ryan’s nomination, and in consideration of his reputation among Washington, DC villagers as a fiscal guru, I thought it might be fun to do a...
View ArticleRyan’s Follies: Oy! Taxes, Decline, and Austerity
More on Ryan’s follies and the overall quality of thinking we find in this young “guru”! Here’s more from his answer to the President’s 2011 SOTU. ”On this current path, when my three children – who...
View ArticleRyan’s Follies: Health Care Reform, Bankruptcy, and Tipping Points
Still more Ryan’s follies from his answer to the President’s 2011 SOTU. On the Affordable Care Act (ACA) ”Then the President and his party made matters even worse, by creating a new open-ended health...
View ArticleRyan’s Follies: Bureaucracy, Austerity, and Depression
Here’s the next group of Ryan’s follies from his answer to the President’s 2011 SOTU. On bureaucracy and innovation: ”Depending on bureaucracy to foster innovation, competitiveness, and wise consumer...
View ArticleRyan’s Follies: Limited Government, Liberty, and Effective Government
More Ryan’s follies from his answer to the President’s 2011 SOTU. These are about that old Republican hypocritical favorite, “small government.” ”So I’d like to share with you the principles that guide...
View ArticleRyan’s Follies: Back to Liberty
More on liberty from Ryan’s reply to the President’s 2011 SOTU. These are about that old Republican hypocritical favorite, “small government.” ”The President and the Democratic Leadership have shown,...
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Republicans Should Destroy Their Own Party, Nationwide!
(photo: DonkeyHotey/flickr) Mine is a simple, and very serious, if, perhaps, modest, proposition. But let me stipulate, first, that even though this post is about the Republican Party, it in no way...
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