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Powerless. paul ryan has a great campaign consciousness and when it comes to things like medicare reform i agree with him, but when he voted no on the simpson-bowles plan he missed the chance to show he has a governing consciousness, missed the chance to do something good for the country even if it wasn't the best he or i would wish for. >> so what about the fact that paul ryan voted for t.a.r.p., auto bailout, to raise the debt ceiling? he has a history of working well with others and being very pragmatic. in fact, he's known for being maybe personally ideological but politically practical. i...

Simpson-bowles overlook the fact that there were a lot of tax increases in there that were unpalatable for paul ryan. i think that for david brooks' point, independents and people in wall street make about president obama which is there were a lot of things in there that they may not have liked, political risks to being for it, but it was a moment in time and the right thing to do was to be for it, taking the political heat even though you didn't like everything in it. i think there are other things that are probably more open to criticism than voted against simpson-bowl simpson-bowles. >> the...