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" I think that, maybe, it&amp;#039;s time for Beltway journalists to pack up the ol&amp;#039; kit bag and go out to where actual human beings are trying to carve out lives for themselves, because a lot of what they&amp;#039;re doing seems to be taking place on Neptune. I have engaged in hundreds of sterile, yet informed, arguments about who should make the Baseball Hall of Fame, and who should be awarded the Heisman Trophy, and who should win the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. Some of those arguments I won, and some of those arguments I&amp;#039;ve lost. But I&amp;#039;ve never argued for, or lost to, the position that the Baseball Hall of Fame should be napalmed into the earth, or that the Heisman Trophy should be permanently eliminated in favor of an andiron for which America&amp;#039;s major college programs should be allowed openly to bid, or that the Oscars should be canceled in favor of a bid-&amp;#039;em-up contest on QVC. But those are precisely the forms into which Paul Ryan would like to transform America&amp;#039;s health care. Politico&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Healthcare Policymaker Of The Year&amp;quot; is the author of a plan that would have 85-year old Alzheimer&amp;#039;s patients bidding for themselves against the insurance companies. Much of an American presence as Ryan may have had this year, policymaking this is not. He is the author of a plan that would pretty much have Grandma dying in the streets. His plan has been rejected both by responsible members of the budget oversight community, the Congress, and by most any electorate that&amp;#039;s had half a chance to vote on it. But it will keep people from saying mean things about Politico on the radio, so I suppose humiliating yourself is well worth it. Just, please, sell yourself at a higher price. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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