Tweet on Paul Ryan's legacy:

[applegrove]

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[dchill]

1. We don't have that kind of time.

[poboy2]

2. I laughed. -nt

[dchill]

3. OK, but did you roffle?

[sharedvalues]

4. Krugman called Paul Ryan for what he is a decade ago

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Just a reminder: I called Ryan for what he was almost 8 years ago, and faced much centrist and media outrage for doing so

But it’s the audacity of dopes. Mr. Ryan isn’t offering fresh food for thought; he’s serving up leftovers from the 1990s, drenched in flimflam sauce.

But this means that the supposed budget savings from the Ryan plan are a sham.

So why have so many in Washington, especially in the news media, been taken in by this flimflam? It’s not just inability to do the math, although that’s part of it. There’s also the unwillingness of self-styled centrists to face up to the realities of the modern Republican Party; they want to pretend, in the teeth of overwhelming evidence, that there are still people in the G.O.P. making sense. And last but not least, there’s deference to power — the G.O.P. is a resurgent political force, so one mustn’t point out that its intellectual heroes have no clothes.

But they don’t. The Ryan plan is a fraud that makes no useful contribution to the debate over America’s fiscal future.

[applegrove]

5. +1000000

[riversedge]

6. That does not do anything for me except confusion. Too many numbers:-(