Your modern GOP at work.
I'm also pissed at the "courageous" talk in the media. Yes, this is politically more risky than not doing it. But "courage" is a virtue. "Courage" does entail taking from the poor and powerless and showering MORE TAX CUTS on the rich.
That is where Ryan lost his opportunity. Cutting Medicare/Medicaid is likely a non-stater politically. My hope is the GOP pays for it for at least two elections cycles but...LOOK! Snooki fell off a barstool and her boobs popped out!
Anyway... Where was I? Oh, yeah, if Ryan had avoided YET MORE TAX CUTS for the rich, he could have made at least a plausible case that he was serious about the deficit. Personally, I and a majority of Americans would rather see the Defense budget cut than Medicare, but that's at least a debate to have: Cut Medicare or cut Defense.
But that's not what the GOP's plan does. It cuts Medicare in order to transfer more wealth to the rich and ultimately does not address the deficit in enough of a way to compensate for the pain it will cause.
The GOP has revealed - in Wisconsin, in Ohio, in Michigan and now in Washington - what their priorities are. They want to strip the middle and working classes of whatever few protections they have and create a plutocratic oligarchy that will rule this country and run it into the ground.
And any Democrat who can't see this and can't elucidate it is an idiot.
UPDATE: Or, what Dean Baker says.
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