Warren: Ryan budgets are 'truly breathtaking' — in a bad way

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Count Elizabeth Warren among those who aren't happy about the prospect of House Speaker Paul Ryan.

The liberal Massachusetts senator blasted the Wisconsin Republican at a POLITICO Morning Money breakfast briefing Wednesday, calling his proposals to slash government spending “just truly breathtaking."

“We seem to have a breakdown in just a kind of agreement about what government is supposed to be about,” Warren told POLITICO’s Ben White at the event in Washington.

With Ryan, she said, “We’re talking about someone who wants to privatize large parts of Social Security, someone who wants to make big cuts in the investments we make in education, in infrastructure, in the pieces that help us build a future together.”

But Warren, whose fiery anti-bank rhetoric has earned her a national following on the left, declined to weigh in on politics in her own party. She repeatedly sidestepped questions about Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton’s plans to reform Wall Street, which are less extensive than her own.


Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/elizabeth-warren-blasts-paul-ryan-budget-215244#ixzz3puP9qauR

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1. And this is the guy people want to hand a 'clean slate' to as the new speaker of the house

by doing a noxious budget deal with Boehner right before he gets into office. Ugh.

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2. Well apparently Ryan's not happy because it isn't draconian enough

I think a lot of us have had his number for a long time. Insane Tea-bagger with a highly crafted patina of a "saneness."

Glad Warren called him out.