Conservatives Try To Paint Radical Ryan Budget As A Moderate Proposal

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5. What people

don't seem to understand is that Simpson-Bowles was proposal soup, which is why everyone hated. Ryan and the RW didn't want it, and neither did anyone on the left. The plan sucked. It attacked Social Security, but that wasn't enough to gain RW support because of the carrots thrown in to try to attract support from the left.

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The South Carolina senator may have forgotten, but there's a reason it's called the "Simpson-Bowles plan" instead of the "Simpson-Bowles commission plan" -- Republicans on the panel hated the recommendations and refused to sign on to the proposal. Why? Because among other things, it raised taxes -- even more than President Obama's debt-reduction plan -- and slashed defense spending. It also allowed all of the Bush-era tax breaks to expire on time at the end of 2012.

http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2012/08/06/13143479-do-simpson-bowles-fans-know-whats-in-it

There was no way the RW would agree to those things.