Quickies

• The GOP's budget guru who is both a fiscal hawk and a deficit punisher has a budget plan the House passed last week by near party-line vote.  It is without denial the Republican budget alternative to the president's.  Yet here's something you won't hear Republicans admit or see a story about on Fox News.  The Ryan Plan will require the debt ceiling to be raised, violate the GOP's balanced budget amendment to the Constitution, dismantle Medicare and far surpass the GOP's self-imposed spending limit it has placed on itself. 

• The middle class is continually paying more and more income taxes than the rich.

• Polls show the Paul Ryan Plan passed by the GOP-controlled House last week is way more unpopular than the Affordable Care Act ever was.  Way more!

• Eric Cantor is saying he will not oblige the Democrats and let the debt ceiling be raised without first being granted more spending cuts.  The Congressional Budget Office says a debt ceiling is totally ineffective at controlling deficits and debt because the entire process is bound to a totally different legislative factor.  In other words, the whole debt ceiling drama is a political charade.

• I really like Firefox 4.