Paul Ryan the "Budgeteer."

Our very own Paul Ryan gets the Dr. Seuss treatment by cartoonist Mark Fiore, because it only makes sense. From Mother Jones:

Mark Fiore is a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist and animator whose work has appeared in the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Examiner, and dozens of other publications. He is an active member of the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists, and has a website featuring his work.

LA Observed: New Yorker's James Surowiecki, it boils down to the Republican's perverted view that aside from fighting wars, the federal government is worthless. Reforming the welfare state is a reasonable goal. But when Ryan explains that he's doing things like cutting Medicaid in order to help "the less fortunate get back on their feet," one hears echoes of Judge Smails, in "Caddyshack," explaining that he sentenced young criminals to death because "I felt I owed it to them."

Ryan's uncharacteristic munificence toward defense requires his cuts elsewhere to be even more draconian, effectively starving most of the rest of the government to death. The C.B.O. analysis of Ryan's plan, for instance, finds that, by 2050, all the government's discretionary spending, including defense, would represent just 3.75 per cent of G.D.P. Given that defense spending in the postwar era has never been less than three per cent of G.D.P., and that Republicans won't consider cutting it, the rest of the government's discretionary spending would have to be squeezed out of that remaining 0.75 per cent. This is a derisory number--in the entire postwar era, it has never been less than eight per cent. In practical terms it would make most of what the federal government does--from maintaining infrastructure to air-traffic control, environmental regulation, and crime fighting--unaffordable. Ryan's path to prosperity, in other words, is a path that ends with the federal government spending its money on health care, Social Security, and the military, and little else.