Earl Blumenauer actually said...

I appreciate your reference to the fact that the single most important element of entitlement reform, the entitlement that is out of control...

To label these people as a goon squad, I think, is offensive on so many levels.

I wonder if you had a chance to look at the Republican roadmap that my good friend and colleague Paul Ryan has advanced.

I take that to say that you acknowledge that it is actually worse if we don't do something.