JACOB WEISBERG IN SLATE: Republican Paul Ryan’s budget proposal is brave, radical, and smart.

UPDATE: Reader Dave Ivers emails: “How can I believe a guy who says, with an apparently straight face, ‘Democrats have been more fiscally responsible, producing an actual budget surplus during Bill Clinton’s second term.’? Does he forget the last government shutdown, and who was producing the budgets Clinton signed? Has he forgotten how Clinton claimed those budgets wouldn’t balance the budget for 9, 8, 7 years or whatever? Has he suffered amnesia, or is he just dishonest?”