In this case, reality is not in question: Ryan wants to control the predictions upon which their policy will be based – or more accurately, he wants to craft policy and have the CBO craft a scoring that makes it work, rather than present a policy to be fairly assessed and scored.
Well, we’ve legalized pot here in Oregon, so reality is no longer an issue.
Technically, you have made reality optional: I believe you made pot legal but not mandatory, so a handful of Oregonians still get to grapple with reality from time to time.
But then the pot wears off . . .
Well, yeah. You need somebody to drive on the Cheetos run.
If Paul Ryan reads Ayn Rand, like all good righties do, I’m surprised he seems never to have run across this quote. “We can ignore reality, we can not ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.”
Rand is like Alinsky. Conservative ideology is certainly influenced by her, but only a very small minority are really familiar with her and buy her rather unique ideas completely.
Although I really do like her quote about money. Don’t remember it verbatim, but it’s basically that people say money is evil, yet the only alternative to money, which represents free exchanges of goods and services, is force. And there are many who think that force is good, while money is evil. Which means that even if they don’t consciously believe it, the results of what they want is that freedom is bad, totalitarianism is good. That’s why for every Lenin and Stalin and Mao, there are several million naive “money is evil” types following them thinking they are making a better world. And usually ended up against the wall at some point. Useful idiots, I believe they were called by Stalin himself.
That’s actually some pretty good company to be in.
Some unnamed Congressional Pubs are thinking of not inviting Obama to the SOTU address. He can just submit his constitutionally-required annual report to Congress on paper and have it read into the record. (It has been done that way before.)
Issa is also a name assigned to Jesus during the time He was in India during His “Missing Years.”
I thought it was just the Arabic name for Jesus – wait, India?!
Influenced by Her? What Alinsky are we talking about?
That view of liberals or the left of today looks like it was tainted or continued to be tainted by guys like Goldberg.
And then the “useful idiots” quote was never said by Stalin or even Lenin whom it is most attributed with.
Oh, that’s nothing. You know that the guy who got crucified wasn’t Jesus but his twin brother Isukiri, while the real Jesus went back to Japan and lived to a sprightly 106, right ?
What ? Why are y’all looking at me that way ? It’s true !
Didn’t you know that? And St Thomas went there right after poking Jesus in the spear hole. An Indian lady joined our church and the ladies whose ancestors ringed the Baltic were surprised there were Indian Christians. I wanted to say that there was a good chance that her family had been Christian for 1400 years longer than theirs.
Shaw is absolutely one of my favorite writers, but he DID, IMHO, earn the “Useful Idiot” title when he got all mushy over Mussolini becuase he thought Mussolini was his philosophical ideal of a superman, instead of seeing him for the thug he was.
I wonder if King expects the UK PM to invite him to Downing Street to thank him for funding 20 years of terrorism.
If Obama was going to invite to the White House every single American who does their job very poorly, shouldn’t Rep. Peter King be higher on the list of invitees than Wilson?
If that’s an accurate paraphrase, she’s wrong, because the actual proverb is that the love of money is the root of all evil (I Timothy 6:10), not that money is evil in itself. And force is not the only alternative to the love of money.
This is the first I’ve heard Ayn Rand may have been wrong about something.