my point is that ryan will be abandoned by the 2012 bunch on his budget.
if palin, newt, trump, t-paw, pence, and bachmann had knocked on the white house door together, holding copies of Paul Ryan's budget for obama to read - it would have been a huge story, and obama would have felt huge pressure to bend on the issue.
instead, it's 'every man/woman for themselves', letting paul ryan sink on this one.