Paul Ryan's Compassion For The Poors

Click here for an article by xaxnar at Daily Kos entitled "Paul Ryan Poverty Scam Eviscerated."

Paul Ryan, who was the beneficiary of generous social programs when, as a child, the death of his father left his family in difficult circumstances, and who then, once he had become successful, quickly pulled up the ladder behind him, is attempting to portray Republicans as being gravely concerned with the plight of the poor (also known as the 47%, or the looters and moochers).

The article cites Paul Krugman (Krugtron the Invincible!) as follows:

...and what the whole Beltway media crowd has done – is to slot Ryan into a role someone is supposed to be playing in their political play, that of the thoughtful, serious conservative wonk. In reality, Ryan is nothing like that; he’s a hard-core conservative, with a voting record as far right as Michelle Bachman’s, who has shown no competence at all on the numbers thing.

What Ryan is good at is exploiting the willful gullibility of the Beltway media, using a soft-focus style to play into their desire to have a conservative wonk they can say nice things about. And apparently the trick still works.

The Krugman quote is from 2012, and is still golden today.