{"id":2507,"date":"2012-09-05T06:38:56","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T10:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=2507"},"modified":"2012-09-05T06:38:56","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T10:38:56","slug":"since-when-did-paul-ryan-become-a-liar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/09\/since-when-did-paul-ryan-become-a-liar\/","title":{"rendered":"Since When Did Paul Ryan Become a Liar?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ryan seems to have fallen victim to circumstances he didn\u2019t quite foresee. The Romney campaign has spent the last several weeks practically daring the national press corps to call out its lies. Well beyond the usual exaggerations of a national campaign, Romney has built its entire message around two accusations \u2014 \u201cyou didn\u2019t build that\u201d and \u201cjust send them a check\u201d \u2014 that are obviously false. A day before Ryan\u2019s speech, a Romney adviser\u00a0told reporters<\/a>, \u201cWe’re not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers.\u201d The media that had spent the last two and a half years nuzzling gently in Ryan\u2019s lap had been prodded with sharp sticks and reacted in the predictable fashion, though probably not predictable to Ryan himself.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The thing about Ryan is that he has always resided in a counter-factual universe. He is a product of the hermetically sealed right-wing subculture. Many of the facts taken for granted by mainstream economists have never penetrated his brain. Ryan burst onto the national scene with a dense, fact-laden attack on the financing of Obama\u2019s health-care bill that was essentially\u00a0a series of hallucinations<\/a>, pseudo-facts cooked up and recirculated by conservative apparatchiks who\u00a0didn\u2019t know<\/a>\u00a0what they were talking about ordidn\u2019t care<\/a>. His big-think speeches reflect the influence of\u00a0fact-free conservatives<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0collapse under scrutiny<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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During the last couple of years, Ryan took his act to the big city, expanding beyond his Washington conservative movement base and pitching himself to a broader audience as a straight-talking avatar of fiscal responsibility. That he managed to pull off the feat was completely incredible.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

MORE:\u00a0<\/strong> Since When Did Paul Ryan Become a Liar? — Daily Intel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Ryan seems to have fallen victim to circumstances he didn\u2019t quite foresee. The Romney campaign has spent the last several weeks practically daring the national press corps to call out its lies. Well beyond the usual exaggerations of a national campaign, Romney has built its entire message around two accusations \u2014 \u201cyou didn\u2019t build that\u201d…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,4,22],"tags":[773,832,1430,855,295],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2508,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507\/revisions\/2508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}