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Defend America on Thursday, February 11, 2010 2:34:09 PM
Ryan said his vote for the bailout was influenced by Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism,
a popular book among conservatives that argues that Nazism and other
fascist movements were actually left wing in origin, and his belief
that a second Depression would threaten capitalism—and rescue Obama's
presidency.
"I'm a limited-government, free-enterprise guy, but TARP...
represented a moment where we had no good options and we were about to
fall into a deflationary spiral," he said. "I believe Obama would not
only have won, but would have been able to sweep through a huge statist
agenda very quickly because there would have been no support for the
free-market system."
He couched his support for the auto bailout in similar terms, saying
that he feared the bill's failure would have led the Obama
administration to use TARP funds in order to rescue the industry with
less congressional oversight instead.
“A lot of these votes are defensive votes," he said. "A lot of them
are not votes you want to take but under the circumstances they're the
best path forward."
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