Now that the Senate Republicans have a super minority of 41 and can block anything that Obama wants to do, it seems that it is time for the House Republicans to step in and try to help craft a bipartisan solution to the problems that face to the nation.

Time for Paul Ryan to step in to the interrogation room, turn down the lights, offer us all a smoke and see if we can't work something out.

Now we all know that Ryan is a serious intellectual - he has read Atlas Shrugged which is a long book with no pictures. He also understands economics, after all he has read Atlas Shrugged. And unlike Alan Greenspan - who also based his life on Atlas Shrugged - Ryan is concerned with the deficit. Also he wants to cut benefits to people who have done rather well working for a living and raise them slightly for those who have not done so well. This makes his proposals progressive so liberals really ought to love them.

Ryan will show us the way out with a Roadmap For America's Future which has been analyzed in a rather fawning letter from the CBO. Memo to Congressional Democrats: Fire Elmendorf. He is not your friend.

Here at Wonks Anonymous we read this stuff so that you won't have to and, over the next few days, we will try to see our way down this roadmap to Potterville.