During an interview with the Washington Examiner, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) started whining about wealthy donors helping out Democrats and said that their money was the reason Democrats flipped the House.
“There were a lot of seats in California we should have won and we got massively outspent. If you’ve got a couple of billionaires dropping $100 million on your head, that leaves a mark,” Ryan complained.
Ryan’s comments didn’t sit well with Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, who ridiculed Ryan for being a puppet for wealthy conservatives like the Koch Brothers.
Krugman took to Twitter where he shamed Ryan’s hypocrisy.
“I didn’t exactly see this coming: Republicans blaming their midterm shellacking on the nefarious influence of billionaires,” Krugman tweeted before linking to a screenshot of Ryan’s comment juxtaposed with a Politico article headlined: “Sheldon Adelson kicks in $30M to stop Democratic House takeover.”
Take a look at his series of tweets below:
I didn't exactly see this coming: Republicans blaming their midterm shellacking on the nefarious influence of billionaires 1/ https://t.co/vQtjHkWsBK pic.twitter.com/Wwdck6f0Gb
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) December 1, 2018
I found this article with a Google search, which looked like this 2/ pic.twitter.com/2djFewbrYB
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) December 1, 2018
Meanwhile, I've been reading a really interesting new political science book, which tells us that billionaires are, in general, very conservative and mostly back right-wing politicians and causes 3/ https://t.co/iVOjlLBiiL pic.twitter.com/8qVkD34Icn
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) December 1, 2018
For the most part, however, they do it quietly, because their positions are so unpopular. The relatively small number of liberal billionaires, by contrast, wear their political hearts on their sleeves 4/
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) December 1, 2018
What's worth noting, however, is that we're seeing another illustration of the right's bottomless cynicism. They'll use any tool at hand — even class envy! — in order to win lower taxes and less regulation 5/
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) December 1, 2018
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