HOW PAUL RYAN won the recess. “Despite efforts by labor unions and a variety of liberal activist organizations—One Wisconsin Now, MoveOn.org, Citizens Action of Wisconsin, Community for Change, etc.—to pack Ryan’s events with detractors and hecklers, they were overwhelmingly outnumbered by his supporters.” Yes, the same people who falsely claimed that the Tea Party was astroturf tried — and failed — to astroturf Ryan.