Republican time bomb : Rep. Paul Ryan’s proposed budget : As most House Republicans remained mute during a GOP meeting on the Ryan plan, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.) rose and drily asserted : "People in my district like Medicare"

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Paul Ryan’s controversial measure was passed in a deceptively unified 235-193 vote, with only four House GOP dissenters.

House Republicans are wasting time and money with a Budget Proposal that will never become Law ( because the Democrat U. S. Senate will reject it ) - Prominent Republicans realize how stupid these Republican efforts are.

POLITICO.COM
Republicans ignored warnings on Paul Ryan plan
By GLENN THRUSH & JAKE SHERMAN
May 23, 2011


Republicans ignored warnings on Paul Ryan plan


Some excerpts :

It might be a political time bomb — that’s what GOP pollsters warned as House Republicans prepared for the April 15 vote on Rep. Paul Ryan’s proposed budget, with its plan to dramatically remake Medicare.

No matter how favorably pollsters with the Tarrance Group or other firms spun the bill in their pitch — casting it as the only path to saving the beloved health entitlement for seniors — the Ryan budget’s approval rating barely budged above the high 30s or its disapproval below 50 percent, according to a Republican operative familiar with the presentation.

The poll numbers on the plan were so toxic — nearly as bad as those of President Barack Obama’s health reform bill at the nadir of its unpopularity — that staffers with the National Republican Congressional Committee warned leadership, “You might not want to go there” in a series of tense pre-vote meetings.

But go there Republicans did, en masse and with rhetorical gusto — transforming the political landscape for 2012, giving Democrats a new shot at life and forcing the GOP to suddenly shift from offense to defense.

It’s been more than a month since Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and his lieutenant, Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va) boldly positioned their party as a beacon of fiscal responsibility — a move many have praised as principled, if risky. In the process, however, they raced through political red lights to pass Ryan’s controversial measure in a deceptively unified 235-193 vote, with only four GOP dissenters.

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At a fundraiser shortly after the vote, a frustrated Camp groused, “We shouldn’t have done it” and that he was “overridden,” according to a person in attendance.

A few days earlier, as most Republicans remained mute during a GOP conference meeting on the Ryan plan, Camp rose and drily asserted, “People in my district like Medicare,” one lawmaker, who is now having his own doubts about voting yes, told POLITICO.

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