Republican intellectuals

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http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/05/yuval-levin-dissembles-madly.html



The most damaging development for the Republicans is the crumbling of economic support for “expansionary austerity” — that is, the notion that the high budget deficit is not merely a long-term problem but a short-term one as well, and that immediate cuts to the budget are appropriate and may even stimulate rather than hamper growth. Levin denies, or creates the appearance of denying, ever having advocated this in the first place, though his denial is both evasive and uncharacteristically brief:

His first point on that front assumes that what Paul Ryan or I or others on the right argue for is a version of European austerity, which it plainly isn’t, and that conservative fiscal worries were based on the particular finding of a particular paper by two Harvard economists [Reinhart and Rogoff] that has been shown to have had some data errors. That latter notion is surely among the more curious liberal hallucinations of the past few years.

[mnmoderatedem]

1. jumbo shrimp

accidentally on purpose....

[11 Bravo]

8. That's some seriously funny shit.

[spanone]

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4. See below

[malaise]

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[JaneyVee]

5. Anyone who thinks Paul Ryan is an intellectual, isn't one.

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7. "I never said that"

The internets are forever, Mr. Levin.