Category Archives: Paul Ryan

Boehner’s Out: Paul Ryan for Speaker of the House

Since the rumours have started that John Boehner may be out as Speaker in 2012, let’s start the rumours aboot Paul Ryan being IN as Speaker of the House. For the sake of time and getting this done before the boss gets here, I’ll skip over all the reasons why that you already know and focus on one…he can have the debate.

The reason so many of us support Newt Gingrich despite his flaws, is that when most people only know the ten word answers to get them elected, he can have the debate on why conservatism beats liberalism. Paul Ryan is one of the few who can have that debate, doesn’t have the baggage, and can make the case for conservatism without scaring off independent and moderate America.
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Paul Ryan Takes On Newt Gingrich All “Lincoln-Douglas” Stylee on Entitlements

Ever since I declared myself a Newt Gingrich supporter, the one criticism I keep hearing from supporters of his opponents (who think I didn’t read their first ten tweets) was the infamous “Meet The Press” interview where he referred to Paul Ryan’s plan entitlement reform plan as “right-wing social engineering.”

It was a total bungle on Newt’s part, and as a Paul Ryan Republican I nearly took out my television with a bazooka when I first heard it. Gingrich has walked it back a little bit, and while people keep trying to fuel a Gingrich/Ryan feud, I think that what we’re mainly arguing over isn’t specific policy as much as it messaging.

Here’s Newt:

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Did Paul Ryan Just Become the Leader of the Republican Party?

This has as much to do with the President’s rant against Paul Ryan yesterday as much as it does the lack of other options on our side. John Boehner is rapidly losing support for his budget deal that doesn’t quite look like much of a deal, and the only Presidential candidate that getting any press lately is Donald Trump, who…honestly, I’d be here encoding hyperlinks all day with examples of why he needs to just stop.

That said, President Obama seemed to launch his re-election campaign against not any of the candidates or the Speaker of the House, but against the Chairman of the House Budget committee. Paul Ryan introduced his budget, “the Path to Prosperity,” last week. Love it or hate it, it’s hard to deny it’s not a serious plan and a clear direction for the country.

Well, yesterday was the President’s turn. He invited Ryan and a few others to hear him speak on his plan for the budget and to tackle the debt. Only instead…

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Mitch Daniels Endorses Paul Ryan and Heads to DC, Still Mum on 2012

I was curious to see which of the rumoured 2012 candidates would offer the strongest support of Paul Ryan’s “Path to Prosperity.” Gov. Mitch Daniels, you’re up

The House budget resolution is the first serious proposal produced by either party to deal with the overriding issue of our time. The national debt we are amassing threatens the livelihood and the liberty of every single American, and in particular the life prospects of our young people. Anyone criticizing this plan without offering a specific and equally bold program of his own has failed in the public duty to be honest and clear with Americans about the gravest danger we are facing together.

This was also the same day Daniels booked another trip to Washington D.C., this time to give a policy address on education reform.

Dude, just announce you’re running already so we can get this shit started.

The NYT’s David Brooks is the Realest Conservative

A new spin on me using “[BLANK] is a Filthy RINO” as a blog title. While I think people like Meghan McCain and David Frum, are absolutely useless, there are some in the often decried “beltway cocktail party circuit” that I think are just valuable to conservatism as talk radio. Peggy Noonan is one. Another is David Brooks, and an example is today’s endorsement of Paul Ryan’s “Path to Prosperity.”

In today’s New York Times, there was a glowing review of Paul Ryan’s budget plan…same as there was yesterday on The Rush Limbaugh show. I’m willing to bet a majority of NYTimes readers will take the opposite position that Rush’s takes purely on the principle of doing so, yet here was a columnist from the newspaper in near total agreement with one of the top talk radio hosts over a conservative proposal. That’s an entire audience who agrees with Rush Limbaugh, who normally doesn’t agree with Rush Limbaugh, without realizing they agree with Rush Limbaugh.

Brooks also makes a very important point concerting Ryan’s plan and the 2012 election…

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Paul Ryan Wrote the Roadmap to My Heart

Well, not mine as much as my friend Dacia Nichol.  Though, I did spit hot fire on the track…