Tuesday, May 17, 2011

A little bit of dodge

Over at Ace, Drew looks at how Republican candidates should talk about Rep. Ryan's budget plan.
His answer? Talk a good game and get to 2013.
If the GOP gets the House, Senate and White House in 2012, we have to be fair and honest during the debate to get public buy in. It’s called leadership. What we don’t have to do is get buy in for a specific plan during the ‘12 campaign because no specific plan ever survives the legislative process. We don’t have referenda on policy plans or bills at the national level in this country. What we do is elect representatives to hash that all out later. Why waste political capital on something that would go in the trash on Day One of Congress?

I'd prefer a strong push for Ryan - "Come with me if you want to live" - but reality is reality. Ryan's plan may be as politically dangerous as it is fiscally necessary but it needs to get done. Democratic scare talk can't cost us any more time to fix the problems.

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