Battle of the Paul's

That's Paul Ryan Paul vs. Paul Krugman
(Oops.  Very sorry.  Maybe my jet lag made me dyslexic.  If it's any consolation, a lot of people call me Robert instead of Michael).

Krugman says Paul Ryan's Paul's math doesn't add up.  Math (and facts) don't usually matter in political debates, and I suspect that is true here as well.  But on factual grounds I'd say the second guy with the given name Paul has utterly eviscerated the other.

The budget situation isn't complicated.  It's mainly about medicare and taxes. In the long run we have to cut one, increase the other, or some balance of these two. Obama's health care bill has possibly made some modest gains on the Medicare side of things.  We'll see.  The rest is chump change.

Now Libertarians and most Republicans most of the time are for much larger cuts in Medicare, or even dismantling Medicare altogether.  This is one way to cut spending for real.  But since it isn't politically popular to say that, they often disguise these positions.

The problem is, we just can't have honest policy debates when blatant lies are called "intellectually audacious" and receive glowing, uncritical coverage by the Washington Post.

Just sayin'.

Source: http://greedgreengrains.blogspot.com/2010/08/battle-of-pauls.html