[Jim Noble]

His basic moral premises are foreign, even abhorrent, to liberals.

That's the core of the problem, and that's why we're headed for war.

[nathanbedford]

But his goals, which are now fully the goals of the conservative movement and the Republican Party, are diametrically opposed to the liberal vision of capitalism shorn of its cruelest edges. His basic moral premises are foreign, even abhorrent, to liberals. He seems like a person you'd like to negotiate with, but there's nothing to negotiate over. Ryan is waging a zero sum fight over resources on behalf of the most fortunate members of society and against everybody else.

This hypocrisy must be called what it is. It is not the Republicans or Congressman Paul Ryan who are attempting to distort the system and impose a radical vision of the rest of us. It is not a Republican or Ryan who "offered nothing to negotiate with" rather it is the Democrats who have shut Ryan and the Republicans out of the process as they attempted to radically restructure America to the point where our citizens have left their homes and taken to the streets in protest.

The hypocrisy is plain for every American to see and millions have taken to the streets to protest it.