Ryan says Obama hasn’t proposed an alternative to the sequester. He’s wrong.

[janedrake]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra...hes-wrong/

Quote:"Paul Ryan insists that it’s perfectly consistent for him to criticize the president for supporting the triggered defense (and non-defense) cuts that he himself voted for last year. “We passed in the House a bill to prevent those devastating defense cuts by cutting spending somewhere else. The Senate’s done nothing. President Obama’s done nothing,” Ryan told Norah O’Donnell on Sunday. ”What’s his plan for the sequester? He’s ignoring the law.”....

The money quote:

"....But Ryan is wrong in stating that Obama has no sequester replacement: In fact, the president has proposed a 2013 budget that avoids the sequester’s automatic cuts for all 10 years, while Ryan’s alternative would only stop the cuts for 2013. ”The automatic enforcement procedures specified by the Budget Control Act are set to go into effect in January 2013 … the president’s budget does not include those reductions,” the Congressional Budget Office concluded in its report. The president instead wants to avoid the cuts by allowing the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy to expire and by cutting spending on mandatory programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, among other changes."

Full Read:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra...hes-wrong/

[jaxx]

Ryan is the proverbial snake oil salesman. Nothing he says is true.

[janedrake]

Given that the VP debate is this Thursday, thought it might be a good idea to 'kick' a few earlier postings from the Wonk Room.