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[...] if a bill has bad stuff in it, even though there's a lot of good stuff, I still think that's incrementalism. How can I say that it's costing government if I give you more of your money back? Other Republicans have demonstrated an astonishing talent for revirginization -- yes, th...

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Published in:Esquire (1979) 2011-05, Vol.155 (5), p.83
Main Author: Richardson, John H
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
Budget deficits
Congressional committees
Federal budget
Iraq War-2003
Paul, Ron
Presidential candidates
Ryan, Paul
Social aspects
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Summary:[...] if a bill has bad stuff in it, even though there's a lot of good stuff, I still think that's incrementalism. How can I say that it's costing government if I give you more of your money back? Other Republicans have demonstrated an astonishing talent for revirginization -- yes, they voted for destructive and unnecessary foreign entanglements, heedless expansion of the federal budget deficit, and vastly increased federal powers, but once Obama became president the hymen of their small-government ideals spontaneously regenerated. EMPTY [Photograph]: Paul Ryan Chairman of the House Budget Committee has made a name as a deficit hawk, yet voted against Simpson-Bowles, and for both TARP and the auto bailout.EMPTY [Photograph]: Grover Norquist Famous for wanting to shrink the federal government, drown it in a bathtub.EMPTY [Photograph]: Paul Ryan Chairman of the House Budget Committee has made a name as a deficit hawk, yet voted against Simpson-Bowles, and for both TARP and the auto bailout.EMPTY [Photograph]: Edmund Burke As a member of the House of Commons, sympathized with grievances of the American colonists.
ISSN:0194-9535