Dems excited to demagogue Paul Ryan's budget plan next year

“The Ryan proposal could be the foil Obama needs,” said former Bill Clinton adviser Paul Begala, who could not sound happier at the prospect. “I hope every vulnerable Republican in Congress signs on to the Ryan plan to kill Medicare, because we will beat ’em like a bad piece of meat.”

And Begala offered this advice: “I would not focus on Ryan personally — he is a pleasant enough fellow, it seems to me — but rather on the fact that he is the GOP’s point person on the budget, and his budget would end Medicare as we know it.”…

Obama’s team is obviously watching the GOP contenders closely, waiting for one to break out of the pack and eager, almost wistful, about the prospects of tweaking Romney on health care or former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty on his kind words for the Ryan plan…

Added another Democrat allied with Obama: “The job here is to frame what the choice will be, and the Republicans are doing it for us … by being, basically, a bunch of clowns.”