Taking Paul Krugman's statements on Ryan in his 4/10/12 article in NY times and enlarging on it a bit.Takes the first four or five layers of skin off Ryan.Pretty decent read, not as well written as Krugman's,but alot of stuff falls into that category.Tears Ryan and Koch brothers,et al apart.

Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) said on Sunday that he urged President Obama not to publicly support a much-touted bipartisan debt-reduction plan out of fear that it would produce reflexive Republican opposition.

Paul Krugman calls Paul Ryan's budget plan fraudulent for slashing taxes for corporations and the rich, drastically cutting food and medical aid to the needy, and not providing any details on how he would make up a trillion dollar deficit.

Paul Krugman states that "when people in D.C. talk about deficits and debt, by and large they have no idea what they’re talking about — and the people who talk the most understand the least."

Paul Krugman argues that "2011 was a year in which our political elite obsessed over short-term deficits that aren’t actually a problem and, in the process, made the real problem — a depressed economy and mass unemployment — worse."

David Frum, former speech writer for George W. Bush discusses the direction his party has taken to the right calling the extremism "dastardly wrong" in abandoning principles that at one time defined their party.

A top Senate Democrat says that a deficit "supercommittee" is unlikely to succeed because of a deadlock over taxes.

The super-committee on deficit reduction has yet to hold its first meeting, but its co-chairs said they are hard at work constructing the new panel that has less than three months to recommend sweeping budget reductions – a task that skeptics give little chance at success.

Political action committees have given nearly $65 million to the six Republicans and six Democrats on the Joint Special Committee on Deficit Reduction from 2001-2010, according to the analysis by MapLight.org, which tracks money in politics.

The Pennsylvanian, Sen. Pat Toomey, was one of six Republican members appointed Wednesday to Congress' new 12-member "supercommittee." Formally known as the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, the panel will be asked to reduce the deficit by at least $1.2 trillion over the next 10 years.

Sen. Pat Toomey said he was open-minded about almost any proposal to reduce the national debt and get the economy going. But on one score, his mind is made up. "I'm not interested in some kind of big tax increase; that would be counterproductive," said Toomey.

Opinion article by Bill Nelson, detailing his ideas for cutting for of the national debt, including cutting all corporate loop holes.

Joe Scarborough's prediction on what the economical and political landscape of America will be on August 3rd if we fail to meet the deadline of August 2nd and do not raise the debt ceiling, defaulting on our credit.

Cliff Schecter of Alternet writes that the Republican Party has turned into "nothing so much as a collective id the size of a David Vitter Pampers shopping spree"...choosing national hate, ideological worship and their personal bank accounts over the country's interest.

Sen. Tom Coburn unveiled a politically volatile package that would take an ax to federal agencies, dramatically overhaul entitlement programs and raise tax revenues — slicing a staggering $9 trillion from the national debt over 10 years.

Joe Scarborough's ten "truths" about the debt crisis you won't hear over the next month from the halls of Congress or the West Wing.