{"id":307416,"date":"2010-02-11T12:30:03","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T17:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=76412"},"modified":"2010-02-11T12:30:03","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T17:30:03","slug":"paul-ryan-i-voted-for-tarp-because-of-jonah-goldberg%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98liberal-fascism%e2%80%99-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/307416","title":{"rendered":"Paul Ryan: I Voted for TARP Because of Jonah Goldberg\u2019s \u2018Liberal Fascism\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting admission in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/blogs-and-stories\/2010-02-10\/paul-ryans-sacred-cow-slaughter\/2\/\">Benjy Sarlin&#8217;s interview<\/a> with Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), the GOP&#8217;s brainy ranking member on the House Budget Committee who&#8217;s been targeted by Democrats for his entitlement-cutting proposals.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Ryan said his vote for the bailout was influenced by Jonah Goldberg&#8217;s <em>Liberal Fascism<\/em>, a popular book among conservatives that argues that Nazism and other fascist movements were actually left wing in origin, and his belief that a second Depression would threaten capitalism\u2014and rescue Obama&#8217;s presidency.<span id=\"more-76412\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m a limited-government, free-enterprise guy, but TARP&#8230; represented a moment where we had no good options and we were about to fall into a deflationary spiral,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I believe Obama would not only have won, but would have been able to sweep through a huge statist agenda very quickly because there would have been no support for the free-market system.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had other Republican members of Congress with impeccable fiscal conservative credentials explain their votes in similar terms &#8212; I&#8217;m thinking Rep. John Campbell (R-Calif.) &#8212; but the citing of Goldberg is a first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting admission in Benjy Sarlin&#8217;s interview with Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), the GOP&#8217;s brainy ranking member on the House Budget Committee who&#8217;s been targeted by Democrats for his entitlement-cutting proposals. Ryan said his vote for the bailout was influenced by Jonah Goldberg&#8217;s Liberal Fascism, a popular book among conservatives that argues that Nazism and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}