Back in the day, conservative health care maven Avik Roy put the wood to House Speaker Paul Ryan’s Obamacare replacement legislation, remarking after Paulie “improved” the bill to meet Republican criticism, “it’s curious that extending tax cuts was a higher priority for the House than addressing the fact that the bill will make insurance unaffordable…
Tag: Peter Suderman
The “genius” of Paul Ryan: He gave Congress back its credit card!
Hey, that Paul Ryan is some operator, huh? The combined tax and spending package now careening through Congress–$1.1 trillion in spending and $600 billion in tax cuts, not a penny of them paid for–is passing with scarcely a whimper, much less a bang. Right-wingers who, a month or two before, were promising to fight to…
The Hillary Clinton email non-scandal scandal: It’s worse than a crime, it’s a whole nother blunder
Over at Reason, Peter Suderman has a take on the Hillary Clinton email thing, coming to the totally unremarkable conclusion that “Hillary’s problem is not so much the email story itself, but how she’s handled it,” which is a way of (silently) acknowledging that the “scandal”, as Pete constantly refers to it, isn’t a scandal…