The Ryan Medicare Plan is So Last Month

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Last month the GOP House voted in Paul Ryan's plan to radicalize the entitlement system and government spending and tax policy under the cover of deficit concern. The GOP soon found out that there were fewer members of the Tea Party than they had come to believe. The Ryan plan was exposed for what it is and the GOP began to walk away from it as it heard more from its constituents who are less enamored with the Tea Party's version of what our founding father's intended when they cobbled together the constitution despite widely different visions of America's future among the contributors. Newt Gingrich delivered the death blow to the Ryan plan in one of his first moves after announcing his candidacy. He declared that it was too radical, just as the Obama healthcare plan was too radical. He found the perfect way to walk away from Ryan's plan. What could be a better excuse than likening it to left wing social engineering. The Newt has put a stake in the ground against social engineering which is highly unpopular in the GOP base.