The Washington Post reports that Representative Ryan will be giving it from the House Budget Committee room, which is simultaneously: nicely symbolic; and a reminder that there’s a reason why Ryan is now the House Budget Chair.
It’s an interesting choice. As the WaPo noted, the last two choices were Governors Jindal (2009) and McDonnell (2010). While I actually liked Jindal’s response, there’s no denying that the message being conveyed by both of the GOP’s picks was more or less parallel to the actual speeches themselves. In Jindal’s case, the Republican message was The Democratic party lies when they claim that we hate minorities; in McDonnell’s, it was You ain’t so tough, Barry. You can be beat. Knowing what I know of Rep. Ryan – I expect to see at least three graphs during his response – the underlying message here is We will be talking about fiscal responsibility, whether or not the President chooses to himself.
If President Obama is smart, he’d be well-advised to not permit too much of a contrast in that regard between his remarks, and Rep. Ryan’s. He’d also be well-advised to take Ryan’s advice, but I’m not about to start relying on “And then a miracle occurs” when it comes to domestic policy.
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Paul Ryan is the anti-Obama
earlgrey (Diary) Friday, January 21st at 12:14PM EST (link)He seems to care about fiscal issues. He doesn’t seem like he wants be a superstar. he is very mild mannered.
I'm still waiting for someone to
frankieb (Diary) Friday, January 21st at 12:17PM EST (link)Enumerate in one easily-remembered sentence (or less) all the horrific things in the health care legislation. And then for the Rs to pick it up and repeat it, repeat it, repeat it. (Hear that, Rep. Cohen?)
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when obama "takes Ryan's advice"
sta46 Friday, January 21st at 12:18PM EST (link)there will be an otherworldly star in the East.
Ryan speech
concap (Diary) Friday, January 21st at 1:04PM EST (link)Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan said during a June 2009 the Hudson Institute conference speech:
A “libertarian” who wants limited government should embrace the means to his freedom: thriving mediating institutions that create the moral preconditions for economic markets and choice. A “social issues” conservative with a zeal for righteousness should insist on a free market economy to supply the material needs for families, schools, and churches that inspire moral and spiritual life. In a nutshell, the notion of separating the social from the economic issues is a false choice. They stem from the same root.[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusionism_(politics)
In short.
To be 100% fiscal first (not instead of social) is to be 100% social at the same time.
They stem from the same root. They are one in the same. But you must but fiscal first above all else or there will be no social.
The Constitution is neither Right or Left, it is American.
You need neither be Right or Left to vote American.
When you vote on the Federal level based on politics, you are voting for a lobbyist to promote your own personal wants and force them on others through taxation and legislation.
FF/FS/SL/RMIL/OK
Fiscal Federal/Fiscal State/Social Local/Retired Military/Oath Keeper
I'll watch the response but not the speech
peg_c (Diary) Friday, January 21st at 2:14PM EST (link)Otherwise I’ll have to be carted off to the hospital before Ryan can even give the response. Just consider me one of the ones a caller to Rush a few minutes ago said Obama makes physically ill. And I’m not ashamed of it.
Government cannot be the solution when government is the problem.
I'm with you peg c.
chbroussard (Diary) Friday, January 21st at 11:59PM EST (link)I used to just mute the volume when O came on. Now I change the channel. Simply cannot stomach it.
Mr. Medicare Part D
jsim Friday, January 21st at 2:29PM EST (link)This guy has a lot of nerve. A lapdog of the Bush spending era, he signed – among other federal expansion bills – Medicare Part D, which according to CBO estimates will add more the the national debt than the bailouts, Obamacase, and the porkulus combined. All of the excuses I’ve heard from him or others is that he had just lost his way, and that he promises to do better. Not good enough.
How could one say that his judgement isn’t fundamentally flawed if he continued to spend like a sailor and spend out grandchildren’s money for years, then change his tune when he’s out of power. Not a conservative.
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Moe Lane (Diary) Friday, January 21st at 10:51PM EST (link):patting on head: Yes, yes, you hate Paul Ryan with the white-hot fury of a billion suns. Have a cookie, and get a new hobby: because I expect to see actual semantic content from your comments from now on.
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Paul Ryan voted for TARP
leonidus2010 Wednesday, January 26th at 1:49AM EST (link)Paul Ryan voted for the TARP bailout the single biggest SOCIALST agenda up to that point in American history. No one who voted for TARP should be lecturing anyone on free markets or capitalism etc. Michele Bachmann you can love her hate her of be indifferent however she has moral standing and courage of her convictions in the she DID NOT vote for TARP unlike Paul Ryan and his boss John Boehner who cried when TARP failed on the first try BEGGING Republicans to vote for it
Ryan 2012
Shannon Work (Diary) Friday, January 21st at 2:30PM EST (link)Paul Ryan anywhere on the 2012 ticket and they’ve got my vote.
Cain/Ryan
concap (Diary) Saturday, January 22nd at 2:38PM EST (link).
The Constitution is neither Right or Left, it is American.
You need neither be Right or Left to vote American.
When you vote on the Federal level based on politics, you are voting for a lobbyist to promote your own personal wants and force them on others through taxation and legislation.
FF/FS/SL/RMIL/OK
Fiscal Federal/Fiscal State/Social Local/Retired Military/Oath Keeper
...WHAT!?!?
jerseydevil Friday, January 21st at 2:53PM EST (link)Hey…here I was all prepared to dial down BHO and his SotU Address…when that BRILLIANT MAN Speaker Boehner and the crafty Mitch McConnell wisely tapped Paul Ryan to take apart BHO once again! I LOVED him at that “meeting” BHO called at the Blair House (Feb 2010) to try to make the Republicans look like they had NOTHING to contribute on the Obamacare debacle…ahh Bill…and Ryan called the Dems out on their so called “great CBO score”… ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPxMZ1WdINs )
NOW I plan to stay up and watch BHO try to cover his A**! This will be better than hearing Joe Wilson shout YOU LIE!
Give ‘em HECK Paul!
Chris
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...WHAT!?!?
jerseydevil Friday, January 21st at 2:53PM EST (link)Hey…here I was all prepared to dial down BHO and his SotU Address…when that BRILLIANT MAN Speaker Boehner and the crafty Mitch McConnell wisely tapped Paul Ryan to take apart BHO once again! I LOVED him at that “meeting” BHO called at the Blair House (Feb 2010) to try to make the Republicans look like they had NOTHING to contribute on the Obamacare debacle…ahh Bill…and Ryan called the Dems out on their so called “great CBO score”… ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPxMZ1WdINs )
NOW I plan to stay up and watch BHO try to cover his A**! This will be better than hearing Joe Wilson shout YOU LIE!
Give ‘em HECK Paul!
Chris
“The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes nor between parties either – but right through the human heart.”
Alexandr Solzhenitzyn
Ryan---Good choice.
chbroussard (Diary) Saturday, January 22nd at 12:12AM EST (link)Saw him use some charts the other day on the floor of the house. They were clear and concise. He does charts a LOT better than Ross Perot.
The wanker Obama does not hold a candle to Ryan
Common_Cents (Diary) Saturday, January 22nd at 4:28PM EST (link)Go getem Paul!
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