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Ryan’s cynical flip-flop-flip alienates pundits who had seen him as an intellectual leader

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By Pat Cunningham

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Last year, much of the mainstream media were willing to dismiss Paul Ryan’s flip-flop from  his previous position on Medicare cuts as mere campaign rhetoric calculated to make President Obama look bad among seniors.

But now Ryan has flipped back again on that issue, and the acrobatics seem to be hurting him, as Noam Scheiber EXPLAINS:

The problem with Ryan’s new budget—in which he reverts to his pre-campaign position on Medicare cuts — is that it more or less concedes the whole campaign, with its righteous defense of Medicare, was a charade. Among the Washington press corps, this is ...

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