[babble-on]

It’s a campaign document, not a serious budget. Ryan should not have wasted his time and his credibility on something with zero chance of enactment.

[ilgipper]

Ugh. I hate inside the beltway asshats. Bruce Bartlett is definitely on that list.

[txrangerette]

Bruce Bartlett is more fantasy than reality.

[LucianOfSamasota]

I think his real objection is:

It proposes massive changes not merely in the path of federal spending, but the very nature of government and society.

So I imagine he's upset that Ryan will not uphold his conception of the 'social contract'.

[LS]

More proof that Bartlett, once a leading supply-side light, has dementia.

[LucianOfSamasota]

Bruce [Bartlett] is the author of seven books including The New York Times bestseller Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy (Doubleday, 2006). His latest book is The New American Economy: The Failure of Reaganomics and a New Way Forward (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).

http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Authors/B/Bruce-Bartlett.aspx