Pyromaniacs & Strawmen: The State of the Budget Debate in DC

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) to the Weekly Standard’s Fred Barnes:

“[Obama] was basically a pyromaniac in a field of straw men. I mean, to set up all these straw men arguments and then to tear them down, it’s almost as if he wanted to paint his political adversaries, supposedly us, in a cartoonish kind of a way, in a caricature as if we want to hurt people’s grandparents, we’re against families who have children with autism and disabilities and we don’t want kids to go to college. I mean, that’s basically what I got out of the President’s speech …”

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