Only three days since Romney chose Ryan, and already we see the election battle more clearly: a VP candidate with courage, principles, and a Plan, and everybody else.

Even someone as witless and two-faced as the Cosmo senator knows that Ryan is bad news as he seeks to distance himself from the ticket within Massachusetts while supporting them outside of Massachusetts.

Ryan's plan looks to be even more disastrous than Prop 2 1/2. And that's saying something... http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=301

There is nothing courageous about abandoning the vulnerable: children, the elderly, the disabled, as the Ryan budget does.

Brown wants us to believe he'll do what's right, but he has shown time and again that he will not stand up to the extreme right wing of the Republican party when it counts. Blunt amendment, remember?

This is an excellent article. Brown is trying to have it both ways. His inconsistencies and deceptions should be confronted and exposed.He IS a member of the Republican Party. He used the familiar Repub refrain,saying that Ryan's plan is bold and necessary even though he doesn't agree with all of it-not saying which parts he supports. That is unaccaptable. Elizabeth Warren rightly opposes Ryan's budget plan

Absolutely right. And everybody else. You would think the man would be able to get a clue.

Thanks, ef, for reminding us how great PRop 2 1/2 was and is. " Between 1980 and 1985, property taxes as a percentage of income fell from 76 percent above the national average to 13 percent above the national average, where it stands today". And don't forget the cut in the auto excise, the new rental deduction, and the end of school board fiscal automy. Thanks, MA 1980 voters.

You're right Barbara - it's an awesome bill if your only motivation is lowering taxes for the wealthy. As the article says the main flaw was it "resulted in cuts to valued services rather than simply calling forth greater efficiency from local governments." It also greatly increased "exacerbated disparities between wealthier communities and poorer ones in access to quality local services." The end result? "Across Massachusetts, a number of communities have been forced to lay off teachers, police officers, firefighters, and other public employees; close fire stations; shut libraries, senior centers, and recreation centers or sharply reduce their hours; and scale back public school programs. One town even turned off its street lights to save money." As far as the reduction in excise, etc. Mr. Romney took care of all that. But they're now "fees" not "taxes."

As you can see in this very comment section, the folks behind plans like prop 21/2, Ryan's bill, etc have no such remorse. Part of being a Randist is simply not caring about anyone else. Selfishness is a virtue, remember?

Brown is part of the same Cabal as Romney and Ryan. His campaign was and is funded by the very same and very few billionaires. He is their puppet. He waits until the last moment to vote in the Senate and votes Democrat if it will lose and always for the extreme Republican view when his vote is needed. He cosponsored and voted for the Blunt amendment which would have gutted health care, even as it once was, allowing any private viewpoint to be a "moral objection" for anything an employer didn't wish to pay for. It was quite simply badly written law. It was not what Brown claimed, it was in service to his employers.

Abandoning children to the winds of fate is not courageous - it is malignant. That's just one example. Paul Ryan is not courageous, he is paid.