"Paul Ryan Is Not a Vice President. Paul Ryan Is a Fake" by Charles P. Pearce at Esquire

[applegrove]

Paul Ryan Is Not a Vice President. Paul Ryan Is a Fake.

by Charles P. Pearce at Esquire

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/paul-ryan-vice-president-2012-11518368

(tell us how you really feel Charles)

"SNIP.....................................

One day, some years from now, I'm going to figure out how Paul Ryan, the zombie-eyed granny-starver from Wisconsin, managed to fool so many people for so long. He's a garden-variety supply-side faker. His alleged economic "wonkery" consists of a B.A. in economics from Miami of Ohio — which he would not have been able to achieve without my generosity in helping him out with the Social Security survivor's benefits that got him through high school after his father kicked. (You're welcome, zombie-eyed granny-starver. Think nothing of it. Really.) Whereupon he went to work in Washington for a variety of conservative congresscritters and think-tanks, thinking unremarkable thoughts for fairly unremarkable people. Once in Congress, however, he has been transformed into an intellectual giant despite the fact that, every time he comes up with another "budget," actual economists get a look at it and determine, yet again, that between "What We Should Do" and "Great Things That Will Happen When We Do" is a wilderness of dreamy nonsense, wishful thinking, and an asterisk the size of Lake Huron. At which point, Republicans who'd like to have careers in five years take to hiding behind the drapes when he comes down the hall. Then, a few months later, he's at it again. And even some putatively liberal commentators shrug and tell themselves that, at least, Paul Ryan is a Serious Person. He gets credit for sincerely wanting to "reform" entitlements, when his entire career makes it quite plain that he doesn't believe in the concept of entitlements, let alone the ones we actually have. He gets a pass on obvious mendacity that none of us would buy from, say, Herman Cain. (In a way, it's not dissimilar to all those valentines to the mighty intellect of Newt Gingrich that we read back in the early 1990's, until everybody figured out that Newt's default position on almost everything was being a thoroughgoing creep.) Outside of the very real possibility that it's all being done to give Paul Krugman a stroke, I don't get it.

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[russspeakeasy]

1. Best read of the day...

[gkhouston]

2. I'd rec this simply for the epithet "zombie-eyed granny-starver".

[progressivebydesign]

3. I actually like this one even more.. from December..

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/paul-ryan-lie-of-the-year-6614245

talks about his lies on Medicare.

[applegrove]

4. I like that one too.

[kitt6]

5. No not Paul.

The last I read Krugman is chilling on vacation somewhere.

[Cognitive_Resonance]

6. Exactly. There is not much there there. nt