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"  Senator Mike Lee is sort of the Paul Ryan of the Constitution. Ryan, the zombie-eyed granny-starver from Wisconsin, is a charlatan who has managed to con people to this moment into believing he&amp;#039;s some kind of budget and numbers guru, to the roaring hilarity of actual economists everywhere. (The latest of Ryan&amp;#039;s many suckers can be found today in The Hill, wherein we find to our amusement that &amp;quot;many think&amp;quot; Ryan, a vice-presidential candidate who failed to carry his own district in the 2012 presidential election, could still &amp;quot;end up in the White House&amp;quot; one day.) Lee serves the same function as an alleged &amp;quot;constitutional scholar,&amp;quot; although the available evidence seems to indicate that his understanding of the document in question stalled out at a point half-past the Missouri Compromise. Along with Tailgunner Ted Cruz, Lee was one of the presiding geniuses behind the strategy of using the budget process to defund the Affordable Care Act, a brainstorm from which even the Koch Brothers are fleeing as fast as their cloven hooves can carry them. Now, it seems that Lee&amp;#039;s futile and loony obsession is starting to cost him back home. The poll found 57 percent of all voters want to see Lee be more willing to compromise in the ongoing budget standoff. Lee has strong support - 90 percent - from those who identify themselves as active in the tea party, but among independents, moderate Republicans and Democrats, there is widespread opposition to Lee&amp;#039;s position, with nearly three-fourths wanting to see the senator more willing to compromise. Monson said that desire for compromise has also been reflected in Lee&amp;#039;s approval rating. In June, Lee&amp;#039;s favorability rating stood at 50 percent. In the latest poll, which wrapped up over the weekend, just 40 percent of voters had a favorable impression of Lee. His unfavorable rating was 51 percent in the most recent poll. Even among Republicans, Lee&amp;#039;s favorability dropped from 71 percent to 57 percent. Lee won his seat by defenestrating hardcore conservative Bob Bennett, so there may be some residual resentment among old-school Utah Republicans. Nevertheless, these numbers are a shroud. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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