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"FacebookPinterest\n\nSo you're stuck in line at Chipotle, bored, behind on your news-reading\u2014yet not exactly jonesing for another rehash of the headlines. Enter the Hunger Reads, our daily compendium of the political stories we think you'll actually enjoy reading. (At least more than reading the take-out menu over and over.)\n\nRyan's Plan for Success: Commit all Ayn Rand philosophies to memory, master a lot of complicated math no one can follow, and do P90X everyday: How Paul Ryan Convinced Washington of His Genius, Alec MacGillis, The New Republic\n\nIn recent years, Ryan has done a masterful job of charming members of the opposite party\u2014another skill that has ingratiated him to the city's establishment. First came his partnership with Alice Rivlin, the former Clinton administration budget chief who served with him on the Simpson-Bowles commission. They bonded over their shared interest in overhauling Medicare with a \"premium support\" model in which seniors would buy private insurance coverage subsidized by the government. Rivlin told me she decided to work with Ryan because she found him \"smart and knowledgeable\" and \"willing to negotiate.\" For Ryan, the upside was clear: as the National Journal noted, Rivlin's support \"gave Ryan's plan a veneer of bipartisanship.\" When that alliance stalled over a disagreement on the details, Ryan quickly found a new Democratic partner for a revised version of premium support in Oregon Senator Ron Wyden. \"There's a lot to work with here in terms of trying to find common ground,\" Wyden said at the time.Meanwhile, Ryan was even managing to get a respectful hearing from liberal journalists. New York Times business columnist James B. Stewart suggested that Ryan's plan could serve as the \"outline of a grand compromise.\" And there was Ryan's relationship with Ezra Klein, who runs the \"Wonkblog\" at The Washington Post. Klein presents himself as a numbers guy, a true empiricist, and in Ryan he felt he had found a kindred spirit. So in 2010, Klein ran three long interviews with Ryan in which the congressman was able to frame even his most radical budget solutions as mere wonkery\u2014as if the only thing he and Klein disagreed on were the details of, say, just exactly how to rein in health care costs in the out-years, when they were in fact separated by a gulf in beliefs and priorities.\n\n\"Book of Mormon Musical\" vs. a Movie No One Has Seen: Muslims, Mormons and Liberals, Bret Stephens, Wall Street Journal\n\nHere's what else we learned this week about the emerging liberal consensus: That it's okay to denounce a movie you haven't seen, which is like trashing a book you haven't read. That it's okay to give perp-walk treatment to the alleged\u2014and no doubt terrified\u2014maker of the film on legally flimsy and politically motivated grounds of parole violation. That it's okay for the federal government publicly to call on Google to pull the video clip from YouTube in an attempt to mollify rampaging Islamists. That it's okay to concede the fundamentalist premise that religious belief ought to be entitled to the highest possible degree of social deference\u2014except when Mormons and sundry Christian rubes are concerned.\nAnd, finally, this: That the most \"progressive\" administration in recent U.S. history will make no principled defense of free speech to a Muslim world that could stand hearing such a defense. After the debut of \"The Book of Mormon\" musical, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints responded with this statement: \"The production may attempt to entertain audiences for an evening but the Book of Mormon as a volume of scripture will change people's lives forever by bringing them closer to Christ.\"\n\nRead more on Death Race 2012\n\nPath to (Muscular) Prosperity, Week 5: Confusion\n\nToday's Political Firestorm: America Still Not Ready to Forget About Romney Video\n\nObama Went Out Last Night: With Jay-Z and Beyonce\n\nAnd Your Official Counterpunch Is...Coal!\n\nFollow us @GQPolitics on Twitter for more updates on the campaign trail"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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