re: #53 HappyWarrior

Exactly. The only thing bold about is that he expects us to take him seriously on this. Heck Ryan not only doesn’t want to cut the defense budget, he wants to increase it. Really he doesn’t deserve the deficit hawk title he’s earned due to the Ryan budget. A real deficit hawk would consider cutting defense and raising taxes if he felt it was necessary to reach a balanced budget. Ryan’s nothing but a fraud who wants the middle and working classes to just be hit by his plan and to take it while he and his rich buddies not only enjoy the status quo but get better deals. It’s a load of oligarchical bullshit posing as serious policy.

The budget was so much of a joke, so reviled by the end, that even he couldn’t salvage it in the press. The best he could do was remark that “At least it got people talking.” And every wingnut who I pressed on his budget, even before it went down in flames, kept up the “Well, at least he’s getting people talking about the ‘dangers’ of SS and Medicare/Medicaid.”

“Bold,” my pasty white ass.