VIDEOS: Republican stunt men roll out GOP budget

By GottaLaff

And here you thought stunt men were only in the movies. The fuss-budget Rushpublics and stunt people do have one thing in common: They both work in fantasyland:



Last week they pretended to roll out their fudge-it. Today Paul Ryan actually presented something-or-other in the song stylings of the usual Tee Vee Machine persona of the condescending pre-school teacher, a la Ba-ba-ba-Bobby Jindal. They just keep on embarrassing themselves, don't they?

In face of all this criticism, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) is now backtracking and admitting that last week’s budget was just a “marketing” stunt. Asked by Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski if the budget legislation he’s introducing in the House today is “a little bit more clear than the one we saw last week,” Ryan responded by claiming last week’s budget wasn’t a budget at all, but rather just a “marketing document”:

RYAN: Yes. The thing you saw last week was not the alternative budget. This is our alternative budget we’re bringing to the floor today. […]

What was released last week was more of a marketing document. Not a budget. This is our budget.

Despite his admission, Ryan’s budget proposal doesn’t appear to make any more economic sense than it did last week. Indeed, despite the growing recession, Ryan is calling for a five-year spending freeze which, as Pat Garofalo explains, would “negate the stimulus, while betting economic recovery will occur thanks to an abundance of supply-side tax cuts.”

And they want America to take them seriously? Not if they keep this up:

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