Is this the same Paul Ryan that wants to Privatize Social Security ( Destroy) and Medicare?

[Mr. Smartypants]

I'm kind of cynical about the GOP strategy these days. I think possibly the Ryan plan to privatize Medicare was not his own idea, that it came from some secretive backstage GOP committee and was given to Ryan to introduce as his own idea, as a trial balloon. Then, when it failed, other Republicans could disclaim it, and now Ryan himself seems to want to disown it.

The Republicans used to be The Party of Ideas. They weren't good ideas, usually, but at least they came up with ideas. These days they seem to be totally out of ideas. All they do is bash Obama, reflexively oppose anything he says or does or wants. They've made it clear that destroying Obama is their top priority, but after that all they can do is return us to the enormously failed policies of GW Bush.

The Ryan plan was to dismiss the accusation that they present no alternatives to Obama's ideas. They wanted to come up with an alternative to present, but they didn't want the Democrats to like it one little bit. Because if they came up with a plan that the Democrats liked, and it ended with a bipartisan compromise, the Democrats would get all the credit. So they came up with the Ryan plan, an idea so loathsome that Democrats would bash it--and then they could say 'Look, we put out our own ideas and the Dems wouldn't even talk about it!'

The Republicans see, as in 2008, that when the economy collapses under a president, the people vote for a change. So they want things to get worse--a lot worse! They want a bigger disaster under Obama than we had under Bush, so people will vote Republican for -change-. They only care about getting back into power, they don't care what damage they do to the country in the process. They call themselves Patriots, but clearly they put party above country. This is the reason they oppose anything Obama wants, even if its something they want themselves, and only present the most draconian alternatives.