Ryan: A Man, A Plan

If the President really thought that a Federal shutdown was "inexcusable", the remedy is at hand: pass the Paul Ryan Plan.

Sure, parts of it are a bit shaky. He underestimates the rise in medical costs, but a later repeal of ObamaCare probably takes care of that. It offloads some Federal costs to the states, but that may well turn out to be a good thing. Talk about "market choice!"

Et cetera.

The fact is, the Ryan Plan is the closest thing anyone has come up with that actually addresses the deficit and the realities of a government beset by debt costs and overly-generous entitlements. It works without setting off a firestorm of angry special interests (and least the significant ones). We could end up with a budget and then deal with the greater issues of entitlements and debt service.

If the GOP has an actual plan, imperfect though it may be, and the Democrats are doing the usual piecemeal shuffle, which would you choose? To reject the Ryan Plan when you have no real plan of your own is, in fact, "inexcusable."