Lawmakers Find Republican Budget Draws Big Heat Back Home

by Mike Hall, Apr 29, 2011

Republican lawmakers have gotten a broad and angry response this congressional recess as they meet with constituents back home irate over a Republican federal budget proposal that would make senior’s Medicare costs explode by forcing them to buy coverage from greedy insurance companies. The Republican budget also would cut taxes for corporations and the wealthy, slash education funding, repeal health care reform and decimate up to 2 million jobs.

As this video compilation, courtesy of Think Progress, shows, it’s been damn tough to defend. Jeff Spross writes the budget crafted by Rep. Paul Ryan “has laid the Republicans’ values out in the open for all to see.”

Everyday Americans at town hall meetings across the country are reacting with outrage at the perverse priorities of the Ryan budget. And this latest manifestation of the burgeoning Main Street Movement against the right’s economic agenda has only grown in intensity since both Think Progress (and even some mainstream media outlets) began reporting on the phenomenon.

Take a look.