We have an editorial up just now on the president’s lambasting of the Ryan budget. I liked this bit:

[T]he Ryan budget is the product not of a rump on the “radical” right but of a consensus in conservatism’s vital center. It attempts — we believe with a fair degree of success — to thread the needle between what the times require and what the politics allows. It is not a perfect document. But contra the president, the fact that it has been challenged by congressional Republicans to both its right and its left, criticized for both going to far and doing too little, is indicative not of a party trapped by ideology, but of one engaged in a serious conversation about how to solve our most pressing problems. That the president’s DOA budget has been challenged by a fantasyland proposal from the House progressive caucus (it doubles down on the president’s tax hikes and includes a public option for health care), and that there has been no budget at all from Senate Democrats is also indicative.