Republicans Just Won't Give Up Trying to Fool People

Matt Yglesias and Paul Krugman on the unworkability of Rep Ryan's Medicare proposal. Is Ryan an idiot or just a political opportunist? For a party that claims to be saving America in the long run, the Republicans are remarkably short sighted. I wonder if they can once again get people to vote against their own best interests. The fact remains if we want these programs, we have to pay for them. No amount of charlatanism is going to change that. I hope what Lincoln said is true:

"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time."

One has to hope that the time is up for Ryan and his ilk.