FUNNY, THEY WERE PRAISING HIM JUST A FEW MINUTES AGO: Democrats Gearing Up To Bash Paul Ryan Again.

As Demo­crats send wist­ful good­byes to out­go­ing House Speak­er John Boehner, they’re of­fer­ing a less-warm wel­come to the man slated to re­place him. On im­mig­ra­tion, the budget, and the fed­er­al work­force, GOP lead­er-to-be Paul Ry­an is quickly be­com­ing a chief Demo­crat­ic vil­lain in Wash­ing­ton.

Even be­fore he takes the gavel—or gets elec­ted by the House—Demo­crats’ mes­saging on Ry­an has quickly shif­ted. Once the “adult in the room” who rep­res­en­ted the House’s best chance at or­der, Ry­an is now the budget-slash­ing fiend he was dur­ing his vice pres­id­en­tial cam­paign.

I dunno, a “budget-slashing fiend” sounds pretty good to me.