"The Press Has Turned on Paul Ryan"
Ryan has done to himself what he never accomplished through years of fiscal lunacy . . . He’s made it hard for political reporters to take him seriously. . . .
Ryan, . . . has long understood that you could push a Randian agenda of tax cuts for the rich and spending cuts for the poor and, so long as you affected a plainspoken Midwestern-ness, you’d still look like a stand-up guy.
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Above all, Ryan figured out that, in the heat of an election, the average political reporter wasn’t going to bust him for even the most brazen whoppers and policy-reversals.
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Hence Ryan’s willingness during the campaign to attack Obama for “raiding” Medicare to the tune of $716 billion dollars, even though the budget he released earlier that year advocated the same thing.
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But there’s one insight Ryan didn’t fully glean: You can treat politics like a game, and you can assume reporters will, too. But you can’t go so far as to admit it’s a game..
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The problem with Ryan’s new budget—in which he reverts to his pre-campaign position on Medicare cuts—is that it more or less concedes the whole campaign, with its righteous defense of Medicare, was a charade
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/112654/paul-ryan-budget-2013-dc-press-corps-has-turned-him#
If its true, this could be the best news in awhile. I got so sick of everyone saying Ryan was so "serious" and the adult in the room when he was a Randian. Please make it true that the press has turned on him...now his whole damn party!