UPDATE: Here is the budget – “The Path to Prosperity” – in detail.
No, of course Paul Ryan isn’t really any of those things, but you have to admit…it got your attention. I’m a dick like that. 
Besides, Rush Limbaugh calls him “substantively superb” & “politically brilliant,” and our job is to listen to what Rush tells us to.
Sarcasm aside, everyone knows I’m a huge fan of Ryan’s and wrote last week that our inter-family squabbling over last years budget won’t mean anything until next years budget, and it’s here! Rep. Ryan was on Fox News Sunday yesterday to preview it, and the Wall Street Journal has a preview. It’s what we were hoping it would be: four trillion in cuts, reforming Medicare/Medicaid, tax code schtuff, and apparently goes further than the Obama Debt Commission recommended. One side will love it, one side will hate it.
The question is…will Republicans have the balls to support it? We know the game plan. The Democrats will demagogue and play the fear card. Liberal political organizations like MSNBC News will parade every random example of “average folk” affected by budget cuts in front of a camera. We’ve seen it before, and the GOP has cowered each time from any substantial reform or work on the debt.
Here’s hoping they follow Rep. Ryan’s lead, who was asked if they were handing their opponents a “political weapon” ahead of the 2012 elections…
There’s been a feud brewing – half legit, half ginned up by Democrats and the media – between Republican leadership and the “tea party” over the short term budget for this year the Dems never passed last year. One side wants gradual cuts and to play nice. The other thinks gradual cuts are for RINOs. Though the real fun starts next week when Budget Chairman Paul Ryan presents his long term budget next week.
