Why Ryan was a smart pick. [View all]

[edhopper]

The "Villagers" love him. He is a "serious" thinker who makes the "hard choices". No matter how many economist like Krugman or Dean Baker show his budget to be a fraud, the journalist and pundits in the Beltway Village love that he wants the 99% to suffer.
As Atrios wrote today:

I will amplify his point that the centrists who comprise the Beltway media love Ryan's desire to inflict pain on the 99%. Like Dancin' Dave on Meet The Press with Axelrod:

“But if you look at how dire the fiscal situation is in the country, we just came off a debt debacle this past summer. Alan Simpson responding to the State of the Union said – where's the guts? Where's the hard stuff? Where's the beef? Where are the hard choices that Americans are going to have to make? What are Americans have--going to have to do with less of if this president gets re-election?”


Or during the GOP primaries:


To Jon Huntsman:

“This is, by all accounts, an age of austerity for this country. A jobs crisis. Also a pending crisis in Washington. I wonder what specifically you would do to say to Americans, "These are cuts I'm going to make in federal spending that cause pain, that will require sacrifice?"

They are reading and willing to make the budget debate about how much the lower classes will suffer, and NEVER about the wealthy paying their share of taxes. Romney has ensured the MSM will keep the dialog in his favor.

And frankly I don't trust Obama to call them on this bullshit. I think we will end up with competing austerity plans.
More pain for us, Yea.