Wannabe Rising GOP star Paul Ryan has a piece in the reliably Republican op-ed page of today's Wall Street Journal touting the latest GOP budget joke. Ryan's op-ed could have been easily written by George Bush since it's basically a regurgitation of the policies of the last eight years. That's what got us into this mess in the first place.
According to NBC's First Read, both Senate and House Republicans were going to put on a little show today to dramatize their new budget:
A week after House Republicans held a press conference to unveil a budget alternative that had no hard numbers in it, they take another crack at it when Rep. Paul Ryan, the ranking Republican on the House Budget Committee, formally unveils the alternative at 10:30 am ET. But that is just on part of the GOP’s budget activities today, NBC’s Mike Viqueira reports. Already this morning, House and Senate Republicans joined in a grand show of budget unity when they met in a rate joint confab in the House chamber -- before the House was open for business. So the chamber was dark, Viq says, but the idea was for Republican members from both bodies to muster in historic Statuary Hall, where reporters could watch them march en masse into the House chamber. Afterward, they plan to hold a rally on the east front steps of the House.Will they do a chorus line and start singing patriotic songs, too? You have to wonder who choreographed that number? I'm betting Lindsey, but he might have gotten some help from someone in the House.
It's one thing that the Republicans can't figure out the speaker at their big fundraising dinner. But, shouldn't they at least know what a budget is?
