Seriously, GOP? Really?

[Uncle Sparky]

But wait! Isn't Donald Trump just waiting in the wings to steal the spotlight and take the nomination?

Palin/Trump !!!!

[Wezil]

Trump / Palin

[Dinner]

Paul Ryan is one of those few intellectually honest people and produces actual solutions, which is why he's the target of so much demagoguery. He's such an easy target.

It's really a shame.

His budget wasn't even remotely honest as it was filled chalk full of false assumptions which he required the GAO to use when it evaluated his budget. Assumptions about the US growth rate, assumptions about how much feedback there would be from his proposed tax cuts for the rich, assumptions about the cost of medical care being kept at ~1/4th the 30 year average, etc... In fact, I'd call the whole damn thing a big lie because it's based upon false assumptions and he knows it and that's why he didn't let the GAO use assumptions on actual cost and growth trends.

[regexcellent]

Hey, it didn't include assumptions like "Congress will cut an unspecified $500 billion at some point in the future" like the health care bill did.

[DaShi]

Santorum's out? I guess I'll have to vote for Obama now.

[Dinner]

The $500 billion would have been $50 billion per year over 10 years which, yeah, was an over sight but a tiny one in relation to the ~$3.8 trillion per year budget. Ryan's assumptions were much larger such as assuming medical cost inflation would only go up 4% per year instead of the 30-40 year average of 16% or assuming boomers would die sooner than expected instead of, much more realistically, sticking around for much longer sucking up SSI and medicare. Those are huge budget costs costing trillions per year so $50 billion a year is chump change in comparison.

[kentonio]

I seriously doubt that. Ryan is someone everyone has to take very, very seriously.

I also take leukemia seriously, but I'm not worried about its electoral prospects.

Paul Ryan is one of those few intellectually honest people and produces actual solutions, which is why he's the target of so much demagoguery. He's such an easy target.

It's really a shame.

The man wrote a hack and slash budget that only saves money if you believe in mystical loopholes he refuses to actually describe in detail. If that's the new definition of 'intellectually honest' then you've got serious problems in your country.

[Dinner]

Republican nutjob Allen West claims he has a list of 80 Democratic law makers who are all SECRETLY COMMUNISTS!!!!one!!1111

I thought we were over this kind of bull**** back in the 1950's?

[giblets]

80 members of Congress are Communists?

[Al B. Sure!]

Republican nutjob Allen West

That's Lieutenant Colonel Allen West to you, bub

[Dinner]

That's nutjob Allen West to everyone.

[giblets]

That's Lieutenant Colonel Allen West to you, bub

Being an ex-officer gives you carte blanche to say whatever you want without being criticized?

[Al B. Sure!]

Nah but being a Lt. Colonel and Bronze Star recipient entitles you to some respect a little better than being called a nutjob.

[Dinner]

Claiming there are 80 secret communist agents elected to Congress means you get called a nutjob. This is just the latest in a very long line of nutjob word salad out of Allen West too.

[giblets]

Nah but being a Lt. Colonel and Bronze Star recipient entitles you to some respect a little better than being called a nutjob.

Not if you act like a nutjob.