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That echoes a previous false claim by Ryan that “The president has not put forward a plan that saves Medicare from bankruptcy, even though nonpartisan experts tell us that this could happen in 9-13 short years unless we act. …
This is Part 10 of a look at possible GOP candidates that might run well against Obama in 2012.
Part 1 looked at Mitch Daniels Part 2 looked at Tim Pawlenty
Part 3 looked at Chris Christie Part 4 looked at Mitt Ronney
Part 5 looked at Sarah Palin Part 6 looked at Mike Huckabee
Part 7 looked at Rudy Giuliani Part 8 looked at Michele Bachman
Part 9 looked at Donald Trump Part 10 looked at Paul Ryan
Part 11 looked at Ron Paul Part 12 looked at Newt Gingrich
Part 13 looked at Herman Cain Part 14 looked at Rick Santorum
Part 15 looked at Rick Perry Part 16 looked at Jon Huntsman
Most of you are probably more than familiar with Paul Ryan and his latest deficit cutting proposals, but take a look at this anyway, because it’s poweful and has Obama very worried!
Having looked at lots of talkbacks on different sites, I can tell you that Ryan is very very popular.
INTERVIEWER: Let’s start with the big picture, President Obama’s budget for 2012, for the next fiscal year that starts next October, calls for a five-year freeze on nondefense discretionary spending he says would save $400 billion. No addressing of entitlements. How is your budget different?
RYAN: His freeze locks in very high spending levels. It’s really more of a floor to gain (ph) — with 24 percent increase in discretionary spending. If we go to 2008 levels, we’d get another $400 billion on top of that over the next 10 years.
Nothing on entitlements. He does nothing to address the drivers of our debt. The public debt will double in his first term and triple by the end of his budget. He adds $13 trillion more to our debt.
He’s punting on the budget and not doing a thing to prevent a debt crisis, which every single economist tells us is coming sooner rather than later in this country. We will address these issues.
INTERVIEWER: All right, let’s talk about your budget. Widely reported that your budget will cut spending by $2 trillion over the next decade. True?
RYAN: Well, it’s more than that, quite a bit more than that.
INTERVIEWER: Three trillion?
RYAN: More than that.
INTERVIEWER: Four trillion?
RYAN: We’re looking at more than that right now. We’re fine- tuning our numbers with the Congressional Budget Office literally today, over the weekend. But we’re going to be cutting a lot more than that.
INTERVIEWER: So more than $4 trillion, which is a significant number, because that was the president’s debt commission cut the deficit by $4 trillion.
RYAN: Yes, we will be exceeding the goals that were put out in the president’s debt commission.
So how would a Ryan-Trump ticket play out?
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The plan is bold!
It is serious!
It took courage!
It re-frames the debate!
The ball is in Obama’s court!
The ball is in Obama’s court, but the disconnect, between seemingly deficit-crazed Washington, and the concerns of the American public, which are high unemployment and rising gas prices, seems to be increasing.
Poll after poll shows that the country favors job creation over deficit reduction, but neither party seems to be listening?!
And a new Post poll reveals heightened anxiety on the economy, 44% of Americans believe the economy is getting worse, not better and 57% disapprove of President Obama’s handling of the issue.
So despite the percieved radicalism of Ryan’s plan, if the economy does not significantly improve by November 2012, then Obama will most likely be blamed.
The only real things in Ryans “budget” are savage cuts in aid to the needy and the uninsured, huge tax cuts for corporations and the rich, and Medicare privatization.
And on Wednesday, the president called Mr. Ryan’s bluff by declaring:
“There’s nothing serious about a plan that claims to reduce the deficit by spending a trillion dollars on tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires. And I don’t think there’s anything courageous about asking for sacrifice from those who can least afford it and don’t have any clout on Capitol Hill”.
Obama is scared of Ryan’s budget plan and he doesn’t think it’s is politically risky for the Republicans.
His political advisers have known the outlines of Paul Ryan’s budget for months.
It has been scored by the CBO and it’s actually written down in plain and easy to understand English.
If Chicago believed Paul Ryan’s budget was a giant target, Obama would have offered nothing in reaction and allowed the Ryan plan to be criticized for six Sunday shows in a row.
You’re talking through your hat and that’s putting it politely
The changes being proposed would not affect one senior citizen in America, not one, because Paul’s made it clear than anyone that’s over 55 and would not see changes.
According to Ryan’s plan, Medicare payments would no longer be paid by government sending out checks for medical bills, but would let people under age 55 choose among private insurance plans that the government would then supplement.
People 55 and over would remain in the current system, but younger workers would receive subsidies that would steadily lose value over time.
Ryan says those who can pay more will have to do so while lower income Americans will still be covered.
Trump’s chances of winning the GOP nomination are very remote, to say the least, and his poll numbers are all about name recognition.
And anybody who assumes that the host of a reality-show’s interest in running for president is just another one of his publicity stunts might well be right.
But what does it say about the Republican Party, or for that matter, the American people that this guy gets even a second glance?
The greatest danger that America faces today is doing nothing, and Ryan’s plan is a very strong step that should be taken!
The slippery way (read snake oil) with which Obama went after Paul Ryan’s serious and stark budget proposal earlier today suggests that he thinks the GOP went for the bait when he demanded a serious debt-reduction plan, then got one from Ryan, and is now intending to build his reelection campaign on attacking it.
But what if Obama is making a mistake focusing on the long-term debt issue and defending the entitlements, when he should really be panicking and doing whatever he can think of to get some economic growth going?
JP Morgan has radically downgraded its projection of the nation’s short-term prospects for economic growth and Morgan now thinks the economy will grow at an annual rate of 1.4% this year.
And this comes hard on the heels of Macroeconomic Advisers lowering its growth projection for 2011 from 4% at the beginning of the year to 1.7% today.
These aren’t just horrible numbers for the U.S. economy, they are a potential death knell for Barack Obama’s presidency.
There is no way tepid growth of this sort is going to make a dent in the nation’s overall employment numbers, and it stands to reason that if unemployment is higher at the time of the 2012 election than it was when he took office in 2009 (7.6%), he is exceedingly unlikely to win a second term.
Combine that with the run-up in gas and food prices, and you are looking at a presidency in serious condition!
Last week Ryan became de facto leader of the Republican Party, and for months he will be going head-to-head with President Obama on the budget, which is a surrogate for the central issue of 2012.
And if Ryan acquits himself well, then by summer’s end he could well emerge as a very formidable anti-Obama force.
There’s one major problem however!
Ryan has next to zero interest in running!
He enjoys what he’s doing right now and he’d have to be drafted, and that would require a lot of persuasion.
So if you’re a Republican then start rounding up a posse!
It’s disheartening to see so many who call themselves conservative support someone with such a voting record.
It’s really demoralizing.
Paul Ryan is not a candidate, except in the dreams of his less-realistic admirers. I admire Paul Ryan, but running for president as a member of the House is impractical. It’s why Pence begged off. Even Ron Paul was forced in February 2008 to announce that he would be “scaling back” his presidential campaign in order to focus on getting re-elected to the House.
People who promote the candidacies of people who are not actually candidates, and who are unlikely to become candidates, are preventing us from considering the choices we actually have. The “Draft Chris Christie” sentiment, for example, is well-intended but ultimately a distraction.
Ryan, who is chairman of the House Budget Committee fired back at Newt Gingrich on Monday after the ex-House speaker panned Ryan’s Medicare plan as “right-wing social engineering”.
Gingrich had called for a “national conversation” on Medicare but described Ryan’s proposed overhaul as “too big a jump”, and added, “I’m against Obamacare, which is imposing radical change, and I would be against a conservative imposing radical change”, he said.
Ryan argued that his proposal is not “radical”, as Gingrich alleged during an interview over the weekend. And he questioned why Gingrich was choosing to align himself with Democratic critics of the GOP budget proposal. “With allies like that, who needs the left?” Ryan quipped, during an interview on Laura Ingraham’s radio show.
Ryan agreed that President Obama’s health care approach is “radical”, but took issue with the rest of that sentence.
Ryan, asked Elmendorf whether the CBO had attempted to estimate the budgetary effects of the framework Obama outlined in April, which was based on a 12-year budget window instead of the usual 10 years.
“We don’t estimate speeches,” Elmendorf shot back.
So there you have it. The Democratic Party has defaulted on the most basic duty of a democratic government: it refuses to say how it intends to spend the people’s money.
Rep. Paul Ryan left the door wide open Sunday (March 25) when asked whether he’d consider joining the Republican presidential ticket as the running mate of the eventual nominee.
Asked Sunday whether he’d accept an invitation from the GOP nominee to run for vice president, Ryan replied, “I would have to consider it”.