This is exciting news, because it will force both campaigns to talk about the future.
Paul Ryan's budget is not a theory; it's real and he proposed it, and the House passed it.
The problem, however, is that Mitt Romney needs to be able to make the case on the economy as to why we should elect him. He needs to spell out what he'd do for the economy.
You can beat Obama with a good plan, after all, the economy is the only drag on this President.
But the Paul Ryan budget will now be front and center, and if you read it and you're going to play "debate club" with a friend and you're gonna play the Democrat arguing against the Republican, the Ryan budget is like red meat.
What they passed in the House was a Tea Party wet dream: take Medicare, turn it into a voucher coupon program where we throw a few thousand bucks at seniors and tell them to hit the free market with the rest of us.
The problem with that is that they're on Medicare and Social Security for a reason, since the average senior in America is living on about $20,000 a year. They have Medicare because it's cheaper and more regulated in order so that we don't end up in a situation where millions of people who don't live on much don't end up costing us billions of dollars every year if they had to take all their ailments to the open market.
Medicare works. It saves us all money. It lifted seniors in America out of poverty. It keeps costs way, way down for them because to charge them the going rates for all the troubles they have going on would leave the rest of us with an enormous debt that we would never be able to pay.
But Paul Ryan pushed his silly plan, and the House voted for it, and then they went back to their districts and got yelled at and booed for doing it.
The majority of Americans want Medicare, including Republican voters. But Paul Ryan is the architect of the first piece of legislation that would kill it, and it got passed. It is not theory. It's what he wishes to do.
God bless him for having the courage of his convictions, however, as a former Republican supporter, I cannot support his budget because it only takes a little common sense to understand just how bloody awful it is for all of us.
I also don't support corporate welfare, and Paul Ryan does. That's another deal breaker.
Ryan sure has a courageous vision, too bad it's so bloody short-sighted.
I believe he'll excite the base while the party continues to bleed people like me who understand that giving corporations further tax breaks, even though they got a great deal and still moved jobs overseas the last 10 years, is massive corporate welfare and a redistribution of wealth from us regular folks to the fat cats.
I will be supporting President Obama and VP Joe Biden, imperfect as they are, because Romney-Ryan just don't get it when it comes to the economy. Let them campaign on ending Medicare, and let's see where that gets them.
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