Liberal Nod To Paul Ryan

A good website that happens to slant liberal is Talking Points Memo.

Josh Marshall, who is the Daddy of TPM, is very smart.  (He graduated from Brown University, the second best college in Providence.)

Here’s one reason why he is so good.  He cuts through the politics and gets to real facts and ideas — no matter the politician.

Read this post on Paul Ryan’s budget proposal.

Here’s an excerpt:

Now obviously there’s a lot of pandering going on in this budget, and the idea that the ACA’s going to be repealed is at this point a multi-megaton pander. But there’s much less inconsistency here than meets the eye.

Ryan isn’t proposing to preserve the tax code — or any particular taxes, whether from the fiscal cliff deal or the ACA — anymore than he’s proposing to preserve Obamacare itself.

The truth is much more consistent than that: Just as is the case with Obamacare, he’s proposing to repeal the tax code and replace it with a far more regressive and fantastical system. And that’s where the focus should be: Not on the rhetorical hoops he jumps through to quiet rank and file displeasure with either recent tax increases or the ACA or both, but with how exactly he proposes replacing both: Exactly as he did in 2012 and in 2011.

And for my money the GOP’s unchaining budget is a much bigger story than the fact that Ryan needs to do some politics to pass it in the House.