THIS DIDN'T TAKE LONG

(h/t Mediaite)

Paul "Galt" Ryan is now running away from his Medicare lies:

...[Brit] Hume asks Ryan “Doesn’t your budget contemplate major savings on Medicare on something of the same amount (as the President’s)?”

Ryan tried his first bit of sophistry, responding (emphasis mine) “Only President Obama raids $716 billion from the Medicare program, cut $716 billion from the Medicare program to pay for Obamacare. We don’t do that.”

See what he did there? The Ryan budget uses the same savings, but spends it on tax cuts for Mitt Romney and friends.

Hume was too sharp, though, and pressed him, asking “You make savings, how much?”

Ryan parried with The Subject Change. After a pause, he said “I joined the Romney ticket. What Mitt Romney is proposing to do is repeal all of Obamacare.”

Hume kept advancing on Ryan like a hockey-masked killer. “You’re not saying, though, that you don’t contemplate in your budget plan significant savings in Medicare, are you?”

Here’s Paul Ryan’s really long way of saying yes: “We can get into the complicated baseline issues, but that’s the current law. We keep with the current law in our budget.”