It is hard to miss the irony in the fact that the very same week that Republicans were publicly heralding Congressman Paul Ryan's plan to inject market forces into the American health care system, they were crafting a budget deal to strip them from the health reform law.
This proposal breaks faith with rural folks all across the West and will make it harder to find bipartisan legislative solutions in the future,
And the single hardest thing, ... is to get people beyond those points.