Intellectuals to the Barricades!

A hat tip to the American Thinker website for this item about a speech U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., is to give today to the Heritage Foundation:

"Instead of working together where we agree, the president has opted for divisive rhetoric and the broken politics of the past," Ryan will say, according to speech excerpts. "He is going from town to town, impugning the motives of Republicans, setting up straw men and scapegoats, and engaging in intellectually lazy arguments, as he tries to build support for punitive tax hikes on job creators."

The beauty of it is not the "divisive rhetoric" or "broken politics" tripe we've all heard before, ad nauseum in fact, from our compatriots on the left.

The true beauty is the phrase "intellectually lazy arguments."

When was the last time you heard that? It's succinct, insulting, and wonderfully, understandably true.