The budget hawk applauds Romney’s fiscal plan:
For months, Rep. Paul Ryan has been watching the GOP presidential primary. As candidates have outlined tax reforms and championed growth, he’s cheered. On the fiscal front, however, he has heard little from leading contenders. Privately, he’s grumbled about the lack of specifics.
But after recent conversations with Romney and reading his latest USA Today op-ed, Ryan is enthused. The former Massachusetts governor supports a defined-contribution model for Medicare — in which beneficiaries are allowed to choose their own plans — the keystone of the budget passed by House Republicans. “It shows we’re all singing from the same hymnal,” he says.
Ryan spoke with NRO on Friday. Read the rest here.
Aw, shucks.
The kids have been having so much fun... flinging pizza around, pouring juice down each other's shirts and breaking wind thunderously. It's such a downer when the grownups step in and quietly begin to restore order.
Couldn't we at least have few more weeks of entertaining mayhem before saner heads start to prevail?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseWhat are you trying to say here? Are you just a Paul Ryan brown noser, and because Paul Ryan, who isn't the budget hawk we've been told over and over that he is, supports something Romney has said, we are alll suppose to forget that Romney a shift and smarmy pol and stampede to vote for him?
"Grown-up" isn't a word adults use. Use the word adult, not "grown-up". Little kids say grown-up when referring to adults.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse""Grown-up" isn't a word adults use. Use the word adult, not "grown-up". Little kids say grown-up when referring to adults."
Really? That's what you're going with?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseYeah, I think you are a little stupid if you are an adult using the word "grown-up" when referring to adults. Especially if you are pretentious like that guy is about who is acting like an "grown-up" (adult). Use adult words if you are an adult or go play in the sandbox. :)
I wasn't goign anywhere with it, it was an aside from my criticism of the false picture of Paul Ryan as a "budget hawk".
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseHang on, I'm writing this down in my Justin Bieber notebook .
Use "adult." Not "grown-up."
There, got it. Thanks.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI did find it amusing that a pretentious person like you lecturing people on what it means to be an adult (apparently it means you vote for Romney, but your post was incoherent) uses kid jargon "grown-up" for the word adult.
Do you want to talk about Paul Ryan's record any? The budget hawk we are supposed to idolize? :)
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse@Matt: apparently it means you vote for Romney, but your post was incoherent
Actually, Matt, I play for the other team. I'm just here as a spy, doing oppo research. (Picture me looking like Anna Chapman, and it will all be clear to you ;-)
Though I gotta say, it's nice to see you smile. You seem so perpetually angry, I worry about your blood pressure.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI've never seen you on here, and what am I angry about? You seemed angry your original post....lashing out at cosnervatives as childish for not supporting Romney.
You want to talk trash and then you get snippy when someboy responds. I'm perfectly grown-up and I reject you stupid arrogant assertiong that cosnervatives are childish if they have reservations about voting for Romney.
National Review is going to play the Paul Ryan card to promote Romney. I understand that but I'm free to post Ryan's record and question their assertion he is a budget hawk. I think that's not quite a credible claim.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseNational Review likes to present a mythical Paul Ryan to its audience, but:
Does Paul Ryan’s Record Match His Rhetoric?
Paul Ryan on Bailouts and Government Stimuli
-Voted YES on TARP (2008)
-Voted YES on Economic Stimulus HR 5140 (2008)
-Voted YES on $15B bailout for GM and Chrysler. (Dec 2008)
-Voted YES on $192B additional anti-recession stimulus spending. (Jul 2009)
Paul Ryan on Entitlement Programs
-Voted YES on limited prescription drug benefit for Medicare recipients. (Nov 2003)
-Voted YES on providing $70 million for Section 8 Housing vouchers. (Jun 2006)
-Voted YES on extending unemployment benefits from 39 weeks to 59 weeks. (Oct 2008)
-Voted YES on Head Start Act (2007)
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Congressman Ryan supports the United Nations, the World Trade Organization, federal bailouts, increased federal involvement in education, unconstitutional and undeclared wars, Medicare Part D (a multi trillion dollar unfunded liability), stimulus spending, and foreign aid.
According to Michelle Malkin in 2009, “[Paul Ryan] gave one of the most hysterical speeches in the rush to pass TARP last fall; voted for the auto bailout; and voted with the Barney Frank-Nancy Pelosi AIG bonus-bashing stampede. Milwaukee blogger Nick Schweitzer wrote: ‘He ought to be apologizing for his previous votes, not pretending he was being responsible the entire time, but I don’t see one bit of regret for what he did previously. And I’ll be damned if I’m going to let him get away with it’.”
Congressman Ryan: if you don’t like debt, stop voting for debt.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbusePaul Ryan is a socialist!
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseWhile that voting record improves my opinion of Ryan, I still hate his plan to end SS and Medicare as we know them.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIs this a happy post, or somebody acting like an arrogant jackazz. Conservatives aren't grown-up if they aren't on the Romney train? Your post is callow as hell too boot...we are breaking wind, flinging pizza around, what the hell? I have gas if I'm not supporing Romney? If you want to be seen as intelligent, shouldn't you make intelligent remarks? This was a post that deserved ridicule. You talk about being "grown-up" in a post where you accuse non-Romney supporters of fa-rting "thunderously". How the heck did you even come up this nonsense?
"Aw, shucks.
The kids have been having so much fun... flinging pizza around, pouring juice down each other's shirts and breaking wind thunderously. It's such a downer when the grownups step in and quietly begin to restore order.
Couldn't we at least have few more weeks of entertaining mayhem before saner heads start to prevail?"
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseSince I'm really distressed at upsetting you so much (and, as I said, I worry about your blood pressure) I will explain my post.
1.) I'm not a "Romney voter." I'm a LIBERAL.
2.) I've been a reader and (sometime poster) at NRO for about ten years. I did the very first Jonah timewaster (which somebody here claims was the Yeti-Batting Penguin, but I disagree, I'm sure it was the Fan-Assisted Wastebasket Chucker.)
3.) Like most of us on the Other Side, I've been finding the GOP primary a tremendous source of entertainment. Every day there's something new and interesting. I love it.
4.) If serious conservatives like Paul Ryan begin to come forward with Romney endorsements, the fun is going to end. The party will unify behind their real frontrunner, the conversation will move on to serious fiscal and policy issues, and it won't be nearly as diverting.
5.) I am not, and never have been, very grownup. (Oops, I mean "adult.") I'm sorry if that bothers you, I really am, but there you go. It is what it is. :-)
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI'm curious, do you find the embarrasingly poor job Obama has done as president entertaining?
Lot of people out of work right now but good to know the Obama statists are having a good time.
If I was as bad at my job as Obama is at being president, I would resign. My ego isn't so big that I can't admit that I'm out of my league in a given area. He's like a college football coach that has hasn't won a game in 3 years but thinks he deserves another 4 years in the role. He seems delusional. If he loved America, he'd let somebody else take a crack at getting us out of this economic situation.
You don't strike me as a bright person, so I'm not surprised you thought Obama was qualified to be president.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseSince you were kind enough to give me a tip on effective discourse, here's one for you... When you're asking somebody's opinion, it's not really a good idea to preface your request by telling them you don't think they're very bright. ;-)
And lest you think me rude, I just want you to know I am now withdrawing from this conversation and going off to watch football. I'm sure we'll meet on another thread, though. I look forward to it.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseVice President Ryan sounds pretty good.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseRomney/Ryan would make a mockery of the incompetent pretenders in the White House today.
I'm not generally impressed with speeches. I tend to look at what a person has actually done as a predictor of their future behavior and where their sensibilities lie.
My mother always told me - don't listen to what people say, watch what they do.
Romney is a big goverment guy.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThirteen comments and lots of heat with precious little light.
Bottom line? Paul Ryan isn't Ron Paul.
Wow! Really?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseHey I enjoyed your snarky comment.
Again, I was making the case Paul Ryan isn't a budget hawk, not that he should be more like Ron Paul, who I don't support either.
Ignore the war and UN stuff in the post on Ryan's record. Just look at record on spending and entitlements and then tell me he's the man on these issues. Sure you can tell people that but is it honest? I don't think so.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThat Paul Ryan is such a softy! RINO! LIBERAL WAH! HE IS NO BETTER DAN DANT OBAMA GUY!
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