Runner up for Time magazine's Person of the Year:

Paul Ryan. Here's what Time has to say about the guy:

Through a combination of hard work, good timing and possibly suicidal guts, the Wisconsin Republican managed to harness his party to a dramatic plan for dealing with America's rapidly rising public debt.

Then there's this:

The supply-sider from Janesville, Wis., tapped into a deep well of anxiety over trillion-dollar deficits at home and the threat of debt-fueled calamity in Europe.

Two points. First, there was no anxiety over European debt when Ryan came out with his plan in early 2011.

Second point is that this line:

The supply-sider from Janesville ...

should read

The economic crank from Janesville ...

because supply-side is simply wrong. It doesn't do what it claims to accomplish.

FYI, it was David Von Drehle who wrote that crappy article


posted by Quiddity at 12/14/2011 01:31:00 PM