You can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can fool Wolf Blitzer all of the time. Paul Krugman on Paul Ryan’s wholly undeserved reputation as a budgetary wonder boy:
Look, Ryan hasn’t “crunched the numbers”; he has just scribbled some stuff down, without checking at all to see if it makes sense. He asserts that he can cut taxes without net loss of revenue by closing unspecified loopholes; he asserts that he can cut discretionary spending to levels not seen since Calvin Coolidge, without saying how; he asserts that he can convert Medicare to a voucher system, with much lower spending that now projected, without even a hint of how this is supposed to work. This is just a fantasy, not a serious policy proposal.
At this stage of the game, Ryan’s phony credentials are unassailable. We just have to point out the disastrous consequences of his bullshit, which are legion.
By the way, I still love this ad:
