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"Eso de extrañar, la nostalgia y todo eso, es un verso. No se extraña un país, se extraña el barrio en todo caso, pero también lo extrañás si te mudás a diez cuadras. El que se siente patriota, el que cree que pertenece a un país, es un tarado mental. ¡La patria es un invento! ¿Qué tengo que ver yo con un tucumano o con un salteño? Son tan ajenos a mí como un catalán o un portugués. Una estadística, un número sin cara. Uno se siente parte de muy poca gente; tu país son tus amigos, y eso sí se extraña, pero se pasa" 

AWESOME -- die from within disgusting pig House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) avoided total humiliation in wriggling out of the president’s order to take what he knew would be a losing vote on the American Health Care Act. That he had to go, whip list in hand, to the White House, tells us how far he has been reduced in stature by this process. In refusing to take a vote that apparently would not even have been close, Ryan at least avoided unnecessarily putting his own members at risk (e.g., moderates who were asked to take unpopular votes, conservatives who would disappoint the hard-edged Heritage Action and other groups working against the bill). He also retained a smidgen of his own stature. Had he gone forward he would have effectively forfeited Congress’s standing as a co-equal branch of government. Ryan will remain speaker because no one else wants the job, but in a sense he does not “lead” the House Republicans, let alone the House. He is continuously caught in the...