http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/03/conservatives-criticize-paul-ryan-budget.php?ref=fpa
House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) is facing criticism for his new budget proposal from an unexpected source: conservative policy wonks.
Virtually all of them found some things to like in his plan. But they voiced substantial critiques in three flavors: lament that the entitlement reforms don’t go far enough, arguments that Obamacare repeal and a 10-year balanced budget are not feasible, and worries that the plan fails to broaden the GOP’s reach among voters.The criticisms reveal a divide between conservative thinkers, who are hungry for policy innovation in the Republican Party, and its top policy guru, who remains wedded to a set of ideas that served his party badly in the 2012 elections.
it is good to see some republicans not condescending to the electorate like the right wing does Ryan and Romney lied their way through their entire campaign with impunity, their first mistake when you aspire to lead and in that endeavor you lie to those you seek to lead and it's blatant and proven to be false by the media with proof.
i'll say they are trying to put lipstick on the porker of an idea that he ran on last year that only profits those that they are trying to champion.
i say they because they let him out there with that same old song with a different meaning, no just an avoidance of same lyrics, is it possible to plagiarize yourself?
James Pethokoukis of the American Enterprise Institute criticized Ryan for leaving Medicare untouched for the next decade and excluding any reforms to Social Security. He added that Ryan's plan to cut the top tax rate to 25 percent, "like an Obamacare repeal, ain't going to happen." He argued that it's "[b]etter to have shown how the ACA can be fixed."The AEI writer also posited that Ryan's proposed deficit reduction — balancing the budget within 10 years — doesn't need to be "quite as steep" because "[d]ebt reduction doesn't require balance, just that the economy is growing faster than the debt."In a piece titled "The Ryan Budget's Step Backward," New York Times conservative columnist Ross Douthat lamented that the Ryan plan fails to offer "a real alternative to/replacement for the Obama health care bill." Of Ryan's vow to balance the budget within 10 years, Douthat retorts, "This is not going to happen, and more importantly there's no reason why it needs to happen," arguing that swift deficit reduction is less important than structural reforms.
this is not what happened last year when he did the same budget dance. wondering will he stick to it or fade away quitely in the night? they call him the top right wing budget guru, guess he's learning it's lonely at the top.
