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Lamar W. Hankins :
Both Democrats and Republicans have it wrong

Posted on March 19, 2014 by Thorne Dreyer

Once the Republicans tried to wrest back welfare reform as a political issue from Clinton, it was a race to see who could pander most successfully to the electorate. By Lamar W. Hankins | The Rag Blog | March 19, … Continue reading →

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Lamar W. Hankins : Paul Ryan Makes War Against People, Not Poverty

Posted on October 30, 2012 by Thorne Dreyer

President Lyndon Johnson marked the start of the War on Poverty with a visit to Tom Fletcher’s front porch in Martin County, Kentucky, in April 1964. Photo by Walter Bennett / Time magazine. Image from Daily Yonder.Paul Ryan’s war:Not against … Continue reading →

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Marilyn Katz : What Every Woman Should Know (About Paul Ryan)

Posted on October 16, 2012 by Thorne Dreyer

Rep. Paul Ryan faces moderator Martha Raddatz in the vice presidential debate. Photo by Saul Loeb / AFP / GettyImages.One sure thing:What every woman should know Paul Ryan has voted 59 times to support legislation that ranges from declaring a … Continue reading →

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Lamar W. Hankins : What’s Conservative about Paul Ryan?

Posted on August 29, 2012 by Thorne Dreyer

Ryan shrugged. Cover art by Drew Friedman for the New York Observer from his Facebook page.What’s conservative about Paul Ryan? Paul Ryan is an extremist on issues of restricting personal liberty and using government to benefit the wealthy to the … Continue reading →

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Tom Hayden : Paul Ryan, Dan Senor, and the Return of the Neocons

Posted on August 27, 2012 by Thorne Dreyer

Neocon spin doctor Dan Senor. Image from Getty Images. Inset below: Dan Senor, Mitt Romney, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Image from ThinkProgress.Enter Dan Senor… Ryan a pawn in neocon return Dan Senor, who supplied Republicans with spin in … Continue reading →

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Marilyn Katz : The Ties That Bind Paul Ryan and Todd Akin

Posted on August 22, 2012 by Thorne Dreyer

Graphic from Eclectablog.Paul Ryan and Todd Akin:  The ties that bind Rape-denier Todd Akin is right in line with the GOP’s staunchly anti-abortion platform. And so is Ryan. By Marilyn Katz | The Rag Blog | August 22, 2012 Republicans, … Continue reading →

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Harry Targ : The Campaign Against Social Security

Posted on August 21, 2012 by Thorne Dreyer

Rep. Paul Ryan talks to media April 1, 2008, about his budget plan. Ryan wants to privatize Social Security. Photo by AP.The media relaunches the campaign against social security The addition of Congressman Paul Ryan to the Romney ticket is … Continue reading →

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Sherman DeBrosse : The Republican Bait and Switch

Posted on April 21, 2011 by Thorne Dreyer

Bait and switch:The Republican assault on Medicare By Sherman DeBrosse / The Rag Blog / April 21, 2011 The Republicans used the election of 2010 to pull off an impressive bait-and-switch operation. They campaigned against health care reform because it … Continue reading →

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Lamar W. Hankins : The Republicans and ‘Medicare As We Know It’

Posted on April 14, 2011 by Thorne Dreyer

Rep. Paul Ryan and ‘medicare as we know it.’ Photo by J. Scott Applewhite / AP.(but should be made ineffective…)Republicans agree that Medicare is essentialBy Lamar W. Hankins / The Rag Blog / April 13, 2011 This past week, House … Continue reading →

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