Bad news from Paul Krugman: Paul Ryan was never a man of substance

[BOOKER:] This is Paul Ryan who used to be a man of substance, who put up plans, I may disagree with some of them, but with great levels of specificity. Now they’ve said they’re going to cut $5 trillion in taxes, increase spending in the military, and somehow not dig us into a deeper deficit budget… deficit.

(CROSSTALK)

ROBERTS: This is Bill Clinton and arithmetic. That was a good one.

KRUGMAN: I’m going to disagree, respectfully, he was never a man of substance. This is who he always was. That was always an illusion.