What Would You Say About Someone Who Knew a Crisis Was Coming--But Did Nothing?
Peter Robinson ·
March 15, 2012 at 11:57pm
Next week, the House Republican conference will release a budget. Congressman Paul Ryan explains why:
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May '10
Re: What Would You Say About Someone Who Knew a Crisis Was Coming--But Did Nothing?
Let's say you knew your country and your party was heading to electoral disaster and you had the opportunity to do something about it and didn't.... Well, Mr. Ryan? Why didn't you do something about it?
May '11
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Keeping with the theme of the evening and malappropriating Glenn Beck, that is conservative porn.
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Peter, I am not allowed to use the requisite words on Ricochet.
Edited on March 16, 2012 at 12:19amDec '10
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He IS doing something about it. Roughly the same thing Newt Gingrich did in 1994.
Is anyone in the Senate following suit?
Oct '10
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EJ, you said it all.
I gather that the chances of a brokered convention are essentially nil. I also doubt that, even if it came to pass, Paul Ryan would try to jump in after deferring when it was reasonable to enter the race. I also read that even if he were open to the nomination at that point, without the structure and financing in place, he'd stand little chance. And I still can't give up hope.
Aug '10
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If they only get the bully pulpit and get the message out and control the media for an hour a day for the next week, month,whatever.But those tools are Obama's to use exclusively until the election .So it's just stagecraft. Off-off Broadway.An interesting thing will be the offense the media takes up to contest an election that doesn't result in Obama's favor. Can you imagine the squawk ?
Feb '12
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David Walker/Paul Ryan 2012
May '11
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I've got no use for this guy.
We have kids getting killed in Afghanistan and he wouldn't step up to run when his country needed him.
Don't give us the lame excuse that Ryan can be more effective where he is. He would be better positioned to pass his budget from the White House.
Edited on March 16, 2012 at 12:47amRe: What Would You Say About Someone Who Knew a Crisis Was Coming--But Did Nothing?
If anyone's interested, I'm selling Rubio/Ryan bumper stickers out of the back of my car.
Dec '10
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Peter,
Great AD. This will be effective. It should be played again and again.
Thanks,
Jim
Jul '11
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So what exactly do you think he should have done? What should he have said? Who and how many do you think would have listened to him? What difference do you think it would have made?
May '10
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Ryan's doing his share and then some.
The best part of the clip is the framing of the issue in moral terms. We've got the moral high ground on this one, bigtime. It's about time we said so and put the Dems on defense for once.
Christie's used the same rhetoric on budget issues to great effect -- in his own state and when attacking Obama. His frugal friend Romney, I believe, views debt and deficits in similar moral terms. Hopefully, he'll be equally genuine and aggressive in saying so.
Apr '11
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"Paul Ryan wants to destroy Medicare; I want save and preserve America's contract with her senior citizens."
Tag line to an ad found in Mitt Romney's campaign vault prepared in the event that Ryan enters the 2012 Republican primary.
May '11
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Posting videos no one will see? Writing budgets that will never pass?
May '10
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I think we are in a period of irrational complacency, more powerful than the irrational exuberance Greenspan commented on with the internet bubble. Politicians, Media, Pundits refuse to address the obvious approaching train wreck honestly - and for some reason I can not fathom, there is little outrage from the public.
Ryan has done a great job of pushing this forward with do-able solutions, if the Govt. were acting in the best interests of the country - which it obviously is not.
What I fault him for is in not addressing the budget process currently used by our govt. The process and structure currently in place guarantees more spending problems down the road, even were we to fix the current idiocies. It distorts and misleads the public by showing a fiscal picture hugely better than what it actually is. A CEO would land in jail for using USG accounting practices. A family would long ago have been bankrupt.
He is the budget chairman in the House. I do not understand how this can continue undiscussed, let alone reformed.
May '10
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What is the Republican Party doing to support Ryan? I don't recall any of Ryan's videos being aired on TV.
The bully pulpit is important, but a small-government conservative President would need a lot of support. We can't do this with just a President. There are other small-government Republicans, but which of them hold senior positions with real influence?
We like what Ryan is saying. Republican leaders don't. I'm glad we have at least one small-government advocate chairing a major committe, rather than hoping "his turn" will come in a decade or two.
"The Republican establishment" is a perfectly reasonable term because the Party hierarchy is overtly determined by seniority, and senior officials seem to have different priorities than the junior Tea Party members. Let's not sacrifice the few senior members with genuine sympathy for reining in federal spending and authority.
Edited on March 16, 2012 at 1:28amMar '11
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Ningrim
Posting videos no one will see? Writing budgets that will never pass? · 1 minute ago
Somebody has to be in there doing it, and he's the best one in there right now. Can you think of someone better?
May '10
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Can I get a dozen? My dream team!
And, Ningrim, the video will be seen if we pass it along. Post it on Facebook, link it on Twitter, download and embed it. If videos of cats, puppies, and babies can go viral, why not this? Isn't this more important? Heck, he's as cute as any puppy I've seen! Especially with that dead elk. Rowrrr!
May '10
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Scott Reusser:
The best part of the clip is the framing of the issue in moralterms.
Agreed. That's how Reagan successfully appealed to so many voters.
That's how liberal Democrats successfully appeal to voters, too. Their goals and methods are plainly immoral, but Democrats present them by appealing to first principles (feed the hungry, care for the sick and disabled, protect the weak, etc).
Steve MacDonald: ...
What I fault him for is in not addressing the budget process currently used by our govt. ...
What frustrates me most about Ryan is his indulgence of multi-term fiscal projections. Don't tell me what Republicans will do by 2020. Tell me what Republicans will do by 2014.
May '10
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That and a watch to fit your specific personality...