Lemmings, meet cliff.
That's one way of viewing the 235-to-193 party line vote in the House of Representatives on Friday afternoon for the 2012 budget proposed by Rep. Raul Ryan (R-Wisc.), the chair of the House Budget committee.
Ryan's plan has become the latest front in Washington's budget wars, following the tussle over the 2011 budget that ended in a bipartisan deal that included $38.5 billion in spending cuts. This current round—which precedes the coming fight over raising the national debt ceiling—is more perilous for the Republicans, for the Ryan proposal presents the Republicans in all their Republicaness, as the party that wants to end Medicaid and Medicare as these programs currently exist (that is, wipe out the guarantee of medical care for the poor and for the elderly), while tossing a trillion dollars in tax cut bonuses to well-to-do Americans. (Only four House GOPers voted against the measure.)
Source: http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/04/ryan-2012-budget-passes
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