The Courageous, Serious, Gutsy Paul Ryan

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— By Kevin Drum| Mon Apr. 4, 2011 9:32 PM PDT
David Brooks on Paul Ryan's long-term budget proposal:

Today, Paul Ryan, the Republican chairman of the House Budget Committee, is scheduled to release the most comprehensive and most courageous budget reform proposal any of us have seen in our lifetimes....His proposal will set the standard of seriousness for anybody who wants to play in this discussion....This budget tackles just about every politically risky issue with brio and guts....Paul Ryan has grasped reality with both hands. He’s forcing everybody else to do the same.

Courageous. Serious. Gutsy. I imagine that within a few days this will be the consensus view of the entire Beltway punditocracy. A plan dedicated almost entirely to slashing social spending in a country that's already the stingiest spender in the developed world, while simultaneously cutting taxes on the rich in a country with the lowest tax rates in the developed world — well, what could be more serious than that?

I think I'm going to be sick.

http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2011/04/courageous-serious-gutsy-paul-ryan

We are all going to join you in a round of :puke:

[truebrit71]

1. I believe the Rude Pundit would call that obsequious cock-gobbling...

..what a bunch of bullshit...

I'll see your :puke: and raise you a :wtf:

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. That's not the only thing he's grasped with both hands.

Fuck these repubs.

America will be back in the stone age if they have their way.

[yourout]

3. Never heard of him. The only Paul Ryan I know is a lying little weasel that is only interested....

in making the rich....richer and the poor....poorer.

[Angry Dragon]

4. If he was really brave he would

slash congressional salaries, eliminate congressional pensions for past, current, and future elected officials, and tighten up all spending for congress.

[earthside]

5. I think Kevin Drum is probably right.

The "Beltway punditocracy" will undoubtedly fall all over themselves to praise Ryan.

It is going to be sickening.