If the GOP gets behind his proposals in a serious way, it will become for the first time in modern memory an intellectually serious party—one with a coherent vision to match its rhetoric of limited government. Democrats are within their rights to point out the negative effects of Ryan's proposed cuts on future retirees, working families, and the poor. He was not specific about many of his cuts, and Democrats have a political opportunity in filling in the blanks. But the ball is now in their court, and it will be hard to take them seriously if they don't respond with their own alternative path to debt reduction and long-term solvency.
It takes brave adults to start difficult dialogs but the reaction from most of the left has been anything but mature from the inability to pass a budget during the last congress to the inability to offer alternatives to Ryan's plan today.
The left seems not only unable to start an adult conversation, but seem unable to engage budgetary discourse on any mature level. They do not seem to see that they belittle themselves.
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