It turns out that Paul Ryan...

...is a big fan of Ayn Rand and Atlas Shrugged. That explains a lot.

I used to be a fan of Ayn Rand and read Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, as well as other fiction and non-fiction by Rand. I like novels and I like talking about philosophy. But I live in the real world.

Apparently Ryan does, too. When the economy was in crisis, he voted for the bank bailout and the auto bailout. That's reassuring.