Paul Ryan is still whining.
(Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)
Greg Sargent:
It appears that the umbrage and outrage among some Republicans took at Obama’s speech this week — which aggressively defended the Democratic vision and caustically criticized the GOP worldview — shows no signs of abating. The latest: GOP Reps. Paul Ryan, Dave Camp and Jeb Hensarling are now complaining to the Post that Obama’s speech was a sneak attack:
The three Republican congressmen saw it as a rare ray of sunshine in Washington’s stormy budget battle: an invitation from the White House to hear President Obama lay out his ideas for taming the national debt.
They expected a peace offering, a gesture of goodwill aimed at smoothing a path toward compromise. But soon after taking their seats at George Washington University on Wednesday, they found themselves under fire for plotting “a fundamentally different America” from the one most Americans know and love.
What the hell did they expect? For him to pick up a copy of Atlas Shrugged and start reading from it?
Politics ain't beanbag. If you propose eliminating Medicare to pay for trillions in tax cuts for millionaires, you're gonna' get pounded—hard. And you'll deserve it, too.