reform period, ari? no. clearly not from his record. and i don t think he would claim otherwise. he is all about setting down standards, holding the line. not working towards losings. not trying to make government work. i mean what you can say about him he has been honest about his world view. it is a world view where we spend more time worrying billionaires and everyone else, and where government failure is sold as a success. that is literally the idea. and so they re going to go out now and try to do more things to jam up the senate and to tie the hands of government. that s why their deficit goals, that s why they re obsessed with using a lot of long-term scare tactics to basically continue to shrink this government. the one quibble i have with what ryan said, i m not sure that he alone controls this foundation. cato has had a lot of pushback from the koch brothers. at the end of the day, its people who write the checks.
in pure republicans are not getting through primaries, which are going to keep pushing them that much further to the right. i don t think he got any weaker by walking out of the senate. well, i guess it s how does it serve the republican party. these think tanks are supposed to be idea factories, effectively. can we actually imagine demint crafting a piece of viable legislation that has to deal with immigration reform or energy reform or any kind of reform period, ari? no. clearly not from his record. and kwong he would claim otherwise. he is all about setting down standards, holding the line. not working towards losings. not trying to make government work. i mean what you can say about him he has been honest about his world view. it is a world view where we spend more time worrying billionaires and everyone else, and where government failure is sold as a success. that is literally the idea. and so they re going to go out now and try to do more things to jam up the senate and to ti