Sen. Patty Murray and Rep. Paul Ryan get congressional budget panel started

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WASHINGTON — Congressional Democrats and Republicans meeting Wednesday to hash out their first semblance of a normal budget in years got a fresh reminder of why it’s been so long: Their disagreements on tax and spending run deep.

The opening negotiating session on a budget agreement — led by Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., and Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis. — signaled the two parties likely will steer clear of grand compromises and focus instead on simply getting the government funded through the 2014 fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30.

Ryan set the tone with his prepared remarks, in which he noted the sharp rise in the federal debt in recent years and the increasing cost of sustaining Medicare and Social Security.

He also declared any tax increases a nonstarter.

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Ryan's obsession with cutting entitlements is especially sickening considering he received Social Security survivor benefits as a kid. The good old "I've got mine fuck you" attitude of the Republicans rears its ugly head again.

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1. My thoughts on Ryan's obsession with both of those programs!

I recall how it was claimed that as a teenager he spent much of his time taking care of his grandmother who had alzheimers...now think about it? A teenage boy who has to spend a good portion of his free time helping to take care of an ailing grandmother...it's a good cause for resentment!

Perhaps something isn't right in his head...maybe he resented having to care for his grandmother...and now that resentment has finally found a target. No it isn't his grandmother, who in the back of his dark lizard brain kept taking without giving anything back, but it's people like his grandmother!


Just an opinion.