Conservatives Try To Paint Radical Ryan Budget As A Moderate Proposal

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. "A Moderate Proposal" sounds kind of like "A Modest Proposal" -

Jonathan Swift's satirical essay in which he suggested that the poor Irish should eat their own children. They need to be careful about that terminology, lest people think of Swift and assume Romney/Ryan are suggesting that poor Americans eat their children. Actually, that might come next, after the part where after Granny has eaten all her cat food she is sent out to die on an ice floe.

I think we should start calling the Ryan/Romney plan "A Modest Proposal," and resurrect Swift's satire, which is becoming timely again...