Commentary By Ron Beasley
This is the opening week of Atlas Shrugged the movie but it is not a good week for Randian wingnuttery. Yes, it's a bad movie but it was a really bad book. It is also a time when Ayn Rand cultist Paul Ryan's budget plan was introduced. Well Ryan's Randian plan is not too popular.
Tea Partiers may say the government is too damn big, but when it comes to at least two federal entitlement programs, they sing a wholly different tune.
In a McClatchy-Marist poll released this week, 70% of registered voters who identify with the Tea Party opposed making cuts to either Medicare or Medicaid -- the government-run health programs for the elderly and the poor -- to help reduce the nation's deficit. Meanwhile, only 28% of tea partiers said they'd be willing to cut spending on those two programs.
Tea partiers were not alone in opposing Medicare and Medicaid cuts. An overwhelming 80% of all respondents said they opposed such cuts, with a majority of every demographic measured in the survey lining up against them.
Ninety-two percent of Democrats opposed cutting Medicare and Medicaid, as did 73% of Republicans, and 75% of independents.
Of course Ayn Rand herself took advantage of Medicare. So what's with Ryan? Is he too wingnut for the wingnuts? So when will we see Republicans who would like to be reelected throw Ryan under the bus?
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