Never. Gonna. Happen.

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69. I can't disagree that it just sucks to have to push off of your own party's president

. . . but, a catastrophe?

For the life of me, I can't understand why Ryan and the republicans, like the rncc this week, think they can cover their own mercenary attacks on social programs by pointing to a budget proposal that likely won't be touched by ANY prospective Democratic candidate.

Moreover, Ryan's unbelievable strategy of claiming Obama was a threat only brought forth even greater scrutiny of republicans' own destructive agenda.

And, I don't want to sound like I'm too cynical, but I can't help noticing that the donations and appeals from progressive and social program interest organizations are just humming this week. I'm not seeing the talk show blather as a defining measure of a 'catastrophe.' So, neither past or present anecdotal evidence points to some major political fallout over this for Democrats defending against some cynical or selective charge from some opposition pol or pundit.

Like I say, go down the road a bit to the election and tell me if this is providing the cover republicans need to mask their war against the working poor and middle class, and their unflagging defense of the 1%s wealthy tax breaks at the expense of the rest of us.