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Wow, the Talking Points oppo research department is just churning out examples of Dick Armey’s public policy dishonesty.

Here’s a great column by Paul Krugman in which he neatly unpacks and explains numerous instances of intentional distortion and simple, out-right lying in a book Armey published a few years back. And as Krugman points out, Armey has a Ph.D. in economics. So Armey isn’t just the average congressional rube who may not even know that what he’s saying isn’t true.

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