Don't be fooled by new Speaker of the House Paul Ryan

Paul Ryan isn't John Boehner.  Boehner was merely inept;  Ryan is ideological.

Here's a simple example.

The challenge of being Paul Ryan (by E.J. Dionne)

"The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a liberal group that is very careful about its numbers, repeatedly found that roughly two-thirds of the cuts in Ryan’s budgets came from programs for low- and moderate-income people. Take that, you takers!"

Like I said, ideological. And when you combine ideological and Republican, you get trouble. No matter how smart, talented, and nice he is.

E.J. is somewhat nice to him in the column. But he nevertheless shows where Ryan's ideology doesn't work with the world's reality.