No love for the Ryan 2.0 Budget even from conservatives

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

Did you hear that the "Roadmap to America's Ruin II" Budget from the GOP's boy genius, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), barely made it out of a House committee controled by Tea-Publicans? There is no love for the Ryan 2.0 Budget even from conservatives.

Joan McCarter posts House Republican budget opposed by Republican committee members:

The House Republican budget authored by Rep. Paul Ryan isn't getting a great deal of love, even from conservatives. Fred Hiatt's Washington Post editorial page slammed it as "dangerous," and the Club for Growth is opposing it because it isn't dangerous enough. That opposition extended to Ryan's committee yesterday, where the budget was passed by just one vote, despite having 22 Republicans to just 16 Democrats.

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The conservative skeptics all voice the same problem with the Ryan budget: It does not go far enough, fast enough. The budget doesn't balance till 2040. The spending levels envisioned in this year's budget are slightly higher than the spending levels envisioned in last year's budget. The Medicare reforms have been moderated to preserve fee-for-service Medicare as an option, and Social Security remains untouched.

That's obviously not enough for the nihilists, which is pretty astounding. Ryan's budget is as extreme a policy document as could be imagined.

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There's a surreality to the thought that elected representatives' primary goal is the destruction of the government they're serving. It gets even more surreal when you look at the Ryan plan, which would achieve that destruction in less than half a century, and his party responds, "That's not fast enough."

Here's the best part. The GOP's boy genius said on a Sunday morning bobble-head show (FAUX News, naturally) that he would consider the VP slot on a ticket with Willard "Mittens" Romney. This is all about him campaigning for the VP slot. That committee vote is a good indication that this went over like a lead balloon.