Paul Ryan Columns on Townhall
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Budget Problems Continue in Washington
Posted: 3/30/2013 12:01:00 AM ESTThe President on Tuesday signed the continuing resolution that funds the government through September and (gasp) keeps the sequester cuts intact. Now that it appears sequestration isn't going away (and yet the earth continues to spin merrily on its axis), the focus should be on how this small step might be extended. -
The Battle of the Budgets
Posted: 3/23/2013 12:01:00 AM ESTSay you’re running a business, and you find yourself awash in red ink. You realize it’s time to retool your approach, and fast. So you ask two different employees to each come up with a budget. You’ll go with whoever writes the best plan. -
Can Barack Obama and the Democrats Find Balance?
Posted: 3/21/2013 12:01:00 AM ESTIn the balancing act going on in Washington right now, for one side the term is layered with meaning, while for the other, its meaning could not be clearer. For President Obama and the Democrats, first and foremost balance means making sure the “wealthiest Americans” ante up and pay their “fair share.” -
The Right Step from Ryan
Posted: 3/18/2013 12:01:00 AM ESTThe Ryan budget provides a view of Republican priorities and their vision for how to increase economic growth, reform entitlements, and balance the budget. While timid and imperfect, Ryan’s plan shows that Republicans are at least looking in the right direction. -
GOP Must Launch Reality Offensive
Posted: 3/15/2013 12:01:00 AM ESTHow can anyone take President Obama seriously when he tells us our national debt is no big deal? Well, we have to take him seriously, because, unserious thinking or not, he has serious power, including the power to obstruct progress on reducing the debt. -
Ryan’s Plan Deserves Kudos, Not Boos
Posted: 3/13/2013 9:34:00 AM ESTInstead of wailing and gnashing of fiscal teeth, Congress and the President ought to be heaving a sigh of relief and heaping kudos on the former vice-presidential nominee, for doing what they collectively and separately have failed to accomplish. -
Obama Flails as Republicans Stand Firm on Sequester
Posted: 3/11/2013 12:01:00 AM ESTThey're flailing. That's the impression I get from watching Barack Obama and his White House over the past week. -
Ryan's Hope
Posted: 2/28/2013 12:01:00 AM ESTIn an interview I conducted with him on Capitol Hill Tuesday, Ryan told me he believes a majority of Americans will come to understand how bad the debt is after the rhetoric gives way to reality.- Topics:
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Does Poverty Still Matter?
Posted: 1/25/2013 12:01:00 AM ESTThe Republican Party is picking up the pieces. Speaking of the ticket's loss for the first time since the election, Rep. Paul Ryan noted that many voters "don't think or know that we have good ideas" on fighting poverty and "helping people move up the ladder of life." -
GOP Leaders May Finally Be Catching On
Posted: 1/18/2013 12:01:00 AM ESTSpeaker John Boehner finally declared this week that President Obama's goal over the next few years is to "annihilate" the GOP. Wow, he finally figured that out. And to reporters about his ticket's defeat in November, Rep. Paul Ryan stated that there was a failure to turn potential Republican voters out -- again, another "ah ha" moment. -
Obama is at Fault
Posted: 1/12/2013 12:01:00 AM ESTDo you remember what the mainstream media mainly talked about as the country careened toward the fiscal cliff? Did they talk about the harmful economic effects of impending tax increases? Did they talk about which tax increases would be worse than others? Did they talk about the need to get rid of waste in government without causing economic harm? -
Romney at the Bat
Posted: 12/30/2012 12:01:00 AM ESTThe outlook wasn't brilliant for the GOP this year:The economy had tanked; hope and change had morphed to fear.
The strong and swift refused to join the presidential race.
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Predicting the Biggest Stories of 2013, Part 1
Posted: 12/22/2012 12:01:00 AM ESTEach December I gaze into my crystal ball and predict what I believe will be the top 10 stories of the coming year. I almost never get these right but they’re fun to speculate about nevertheless. -
Tale of Two Presidential Aspirants: Paul Ryan Disses the Gold Standard; Marco Rubio Proposes Good Money
Posted: 12/12/2012 12:01:00 AM ESTIt may have been one of the strangest moments in the history of modern presidential politics. -
In Leadership, Appearances Matter
Posted: 12/6/2012 12:01:00 AM ESTLast week, I was exiting my neighborhood Starbucks when I happened to overhear a middle-aged man talking to a younger man who appeared to be his son. -
Defending Defense: How the GOP Can Escape the Budget Box Canyon
Posted: 12/5/2012 9:20:00 AM ESTPaul Ryan and Marco Rubio wowed the Beltway conservatives last night, which is a little bit like the British cheering a successful evacuation from Dunkirk. The GOP indeed lives to fight another day, and that day will be here quickly as 2014’s candidates are already declaring –Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito for the United States Senate in West Virginia and former Governor Michael Rounds for the same in South Dakota. -
The End Of The Karl Rove Death Grip Signals A Reagan Renaissance
Posted: 11/14/2012 12:01:00 AM ESTLiberals do not grasp the distinction between Ronald Reagan and (either) George Bush. This blind spot creates a massive confusion and hazard to their ambitions. Obama defeated neither the Reagan Narrative nor Team Reagan. Team Bush appropriated, and then marginalized, both. Obama beat Team Bush, not Team Reagan. The implications are huge. -
One of Civilization's Wonders
Posted: 11/7/2012 10:50:00 AM ESTAS THE NATION'S ELECTORAL BRAWL drew to a close, I thought about a question posed by ABC's Martha Raddatz to vice-presidential candidates Joe Biden and Paul Ryan during their debate in Kentucky last month. She quoted "a highly decorated soldier" who was "dismayed" at the tone of the campaign. "The ads are so negative," the soldier had lamented, "and they're all tearing down each other rather than building up the country." -
The Morning After
Posted: 11/7/2012 12:01:00 AM ESTIt's over at last, Now we know. Or do we? The voting may have ended, but the counting continues. -
Mittmentum Builds
Posted: 11/3/2012 12:01:00 AM ESTMichael Barone is America’s “one man decision desk,” with credibility on elections far beyond that of anyone else working the field in America today.
