Paul Ryan rambles forth on
what could have been if only the American public had been wise enough to elect the Romney-Ryan ticket:
I worked with Mike Leavitt and Chris Liddell on his team on the transition plan. And knowing what we were going to do in the first 200 days, how we were going to tackle the entitlement problems, the debt crisis, tax reform, energy exploration all the things we said were going to do, we were going to do. And we were really getting down to the specifics.
Aw, how sad. They were working on a transition plan, and they never got to use it. And hearing all this stuff that they would have already accomplished is enough to bring tears to Ayn Rand Paul Ryan's eyes. They would have already been on the path not just to get rid of Medicare and make chained CPI look like something FDR would have proposed, but also towards giving Exxon a drilling permit for every damn back yard in America.
But it wasn't to be, and as an eyewitness to the history that could have been, Paul Ryan is taking it very hard:
Losing the election and now seeing where the country is headed in this kind of level of detail… (holding up a summary of President Obama’s budget proposal, unveiled today)… Very few people have such a clear view of the whole alteration of trajectory that has occurred. And that’s obviously… I won’t say it’s despairing, it’s distressing, I’m distressed.
Well, he's half-right about one thing: Very few people are as sad as he is that he didn't win the election.