The Comedy Must End

Paul Ryan, Wisconsin Repub and Chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee, has emerged as the GOP point man on the budget battle. Ryan, with his plastered down hair, greenish complexion, and gray eyes, look like a vampire. Not a "sexy" vampire from Twilight but a creaky old vampire from a 1950's B-movie. Appearances aside, Ryan is using the budget battle to push his own agenda: eliminating corporate and inheritance taxes, while ending Medicaid & Medicare.

Once again, we have the Repub double game; making all kinds of noise about eliminating the deficit and the national debt, while insisting on tax cuts for corporate interests. More evidence, not that we needed it, that the Repubs are just exploiting the deficit issue to push a pro corporate agenda.