Meet The New Paul Ryan: Abandoning "The Perfect" For "The Good"

"The House Budget chairman, who has spent years penning budgets fit for conservatives' dreams, has morphed into a man willing to take modest steps...[I]n abandoning his years' long quest to re-imagine American society and settling for a bipartisan deal, the Wisconsin Republican took the first steps to emerge as a House power center -- a Republican willing to take baby steps to curb the nation's trillions in debt, normalize the budget process and protect a Pentagon pilloried by cuts...If the budget passes, it sets up a helpful message for Ryan as he considers both his future in the House and the 2016 presidential race -- he can claim he is as a man in tune with the realities of governing. Sure, he is a conservative, but Ryan is willing dispense with the perfect in favor of the good." Jake Sherman in Politico

@MikeGrunwald: GOP conservatives furious that budget deal adjusts their beloved sequester that they used to claim was all Obama's idea.