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Tag: Paul Ryan
Littwin: Too big to dog whistle
This was not only the easy and obvious thing to do. It was, in fact, the only thing to do.
Wiretap: Another Ryan plan to make the poor pay the debt
Paul Ryan's newest budget is out. The only place it's going is directly to the campaign trail, where, it turns out, Democrats are thrilled to see it
Wiretap: Grandmaster Kasparov on Putin’s tyranny
"Nobody except the most naked of Kremlin apologists is debating whether Putin’s anything but a tyrant anymore. Instead, we’re searching for the right historical analogy."
Wiretap: Paul Ryan will cure poverty with his binder
Paul Ryan is back with his hammock theory on poverty -- that the war on poverty is lost and the big government programs make everyone poorer.
Wiretap: Dropping dud jobs and bunk insurance is… a bad thing?
Now nearly everyone agrees the CBO report says 2 million will leave their jobs because they're no longer trapped there by health insurance concerns. Good news or bad news?
Wiretap: Insurance commissioner ruins perfectly good Mark Udall non-scandal
Marguerite Salazar, confirmed by the Senate in Denver Monday as state insurance commissioner, threw cold water on the state Republican outrage machine.
Littwin: The real war on Christmas
Christmas movies are all about the happy ending. Carelessly switch to one of the cable TV news stations, though, and the game is up.
Littwin: Boehner breaks free
Are you kidding me? John Boehner goes all Travis Bickle on the Tea Party wing of the Republican Party. And he not only beats them (at least for now), he annihilates 'em.
ALEC docs reveal relationship with lawmakers no voter could expect to...
Leaked reports prepared this summer by ALEC highlight the priorities of the group and its intimate relationships with and expectations of state lawmakers, specifically state ALEC "chairs," such as Colorado's Sen. Bill Cadman and Rep. Libby Szabo.