Epstein Secrets

n and Mitt Romney offered their vision, President Obama offered his, and Americans made their choice. Rather emphatically. Now Ryan, as chairman of the House Budget Committee, is coming back with an ostensibly new and improved version of the framework that voters rejected in November. Judging by the preview he offered Su

ated last November, running on the same economic policies. Although I am a die-hard liberal Democrat, please allow me to make this observation about the Republican Party, because I believe that a strong two-party system is better for the country, as it encourages and forces the other party to be more honest. This wee

e to wait longer to order evacuations in the event of a hurricane. In an interview, Christopher Van Hollen Jr. of Maryland, the ranking Democrat on the House Budget Committee, describing the Ryan budget "is a shell game designed to hide the damage to the countiy." Van Hollen is frustrated that the damage to which he allu

r said earlier this year, "Congress is reaching a point where it will no longer be able to function at all. Over the past two years, some members of the Republican Party have ramped up the partisan wars on Capitol Hill. They are threatening to bring the legislative process to a standstill, with Republican activists n

nd a figure who had merged a conservative fiscal wonkishness—he had been the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and, as well, chairman of the House Budget Committee—with an old-fashioned idea of unassailable Republican rectitude, Ryan was the official last, best hope of the Republican Party. (Bannon, typically, h

ell, chairman of the House Budget Committee—with an old-fashioned idea of unassailable Republican rectitude, Ryan was the official last, best hope of the Republican Party. (Bannon, typically, had turned this trope into an official Trumpist talking point: “Ryan was created in a petri dish at the Heritage Foundation.”’)