How Ryan's budget could help GOP avert a government shutdown

In a post yesterday, I noted that when House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., releases his fiscal 2012 budget and 10-year spending outline, conservatives will face a question of whether to put all their energies into the current fight over the remaining few months of this year’s budget or focus more attention on the long-term. But I should have also noted that the Ryan budget could help GOP leadership avert a shutdown, which it has been trying desperately to do.