In October, the Republican National Committee sent out a strange fundraising letter, ostensibly written by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), complaining, “The safety net for the poor is coming apart at the seams and no one in Washington seems to care.”
To be sure, fundraising letters tend to throw caution to the wind when it comes to accuracy and honesty, but this was just bizarre — the guy swinging the machete at the safety net shouldn’t be the same guy complaining about the safety net “coming apart at the seams.”
Five months later, though, the far-right Ayn Rand acolyte is still at it, arguing in the Wall Street Journal this morning that his right-wing budget plan “strengthens the safety net.”
Matt Yglesias isn’t buying it.









