Ryan Challenges Sebellius over Seniors Controlling Their Own HealthCare Decisions

WSJ: Rep. Paul Ryan: Our Path to Prosperity

Congress is currently embroiled in a funding fight over how much to spend on less than one-fifth of the federal budget for the next six months. Whether we cut $33 billion or $61 billion—that is, whether we shave 2% or 4% off of this year’s deficit—is important. It’s a sign that the election did in fact change the debate in Washington from how much we should spend to how much spending we should cut.

But this morning the new House Republican majority will introduce a budget that moves the debate from billions in spending cuts to trillions. America is facing a defining moment. The threat posed by our monumental debt will damage our country in profound ways, unless we act.

No one person or party is responsible for the looming crisis. Yet the facts are clear: Since President Obama took office, our problems have gotten worse. Major spending increases have failed to deliver promised jobs. The safety net for the poor is coming apart at the seams. Government health and retirement programs are growing at unsustainable rates. The new health-care law is a fiscal train wreck. And a complex, inefficient tax code is holding back American families and businesses.

for full OpEd: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703806304576242612172357504.html

Rep. Paul Ryan and the 2012 Budget

Rep. Paul Ryan, Chairman of the House Budget Committee, Tapped tp Give GOP Response to The State of the Union Address

     Forcefully challenging the ObamaCare legislation and the attacks from the Left this week as the House debated the repeal of the debacle legislation, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) stood firm in his resolve that the legislation would not save us money, but in fact would cripple our system,

      So it came as no surprise today that the 40-year old Congressman was chosen to give the GOP response to President Obama’s State of the Union Address on Tuesday evening. Perhaps not a frontrunner name for the 2012 Presidential sweepstakes, Ryan’s name has already been listed as one with potential, perhaps the Vice-President slot for this “trip to the big dance”.

“Knowledge is Power”: Fred Barnes on Paul Ryan

January 17, 2011

Vol. 16, No. 17 • By FRED BARNES

Paul Ryan was 28 when he arrived in the House of Representatives in 1999 as a Republican freshman from Wisconsin. Eager for advice, he sought the counsel of dozens of veteran House members on how to be an effective congressman. The most consequential advice came from an unexpected source, Democrat Barney Frank of Massachusetts. It was guidance for a committed conservative from one of Washington’s leading liberals.

And it was quite simple: Be a specialist, not a generalist. As they talked over breakfast in the members’ dining room, Frank went into considerable detail. “Pick two or three issues and really focus on them rather than being a yard wide and an inch deep,” Ryan says Frank told him. Do your homework. Concentrate on committee work. Study. If you do, you’ll be in the room when bills are written.

Ryan has followed that advice rigorously. His motto is, “Inquire, inquire, inquire, read, read, read.” He has made himself an expert on the budget, taxes, and health care. Ryan knows more about the federal budget than anyone else on Capitol Hill and talks about it more fluently. Because of this, he was a shoo-in for chairman of the House Budget Committee last week, elevated over colleagues with more seniority. He will draft the House version of the 2012 budget, a document the Democrat-controlled Senate and the White House will have to take as seriously as the budget proposal of the executive branch, which the Obama administration is set to release early next month.

There’s an old Washington adage that Ryan personifies almost perfectly: Knowledge is power. He’s become enormously influential because he knows so much more than his colleagues on a few issues. And they happen to be the most critical issues in 2011—spending, the deficit, the national debt, taxes, Obama’s health care plan, the size and reach of government.

http://paulryan.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=219577

Could Paul Ryan be the 2012 “Dark Horse” Candidate?

Elections Have Consequences……. Memo from Paul Ryan to Congress

Elections.
Have.
Consequences.

And here’s one coming up, now: the incoming House majority will be establishing a rule that will give the House Budget chair the ability to set the spending ceiling for any 2011 budget.  This rule is currently causing House Democrats to freak out like koalas deprived of their eucalyptus leaves/junkies deprived of their heroin/hipsters deprived of their iPhones, for two reasons:

• The Democrats never passed a budget in 2010, so this is going to affect spending for this fiscal year.  A lot.
• Who is going to be the House Budget chair?  Why, Rep. Paul “Embrace the sweet pain that comes from cutting entitlements” Ryan.

for full article:  http://www.redstate.com/moe_lane/2010/12/31/paul-ryan-given-power-to-bind-and-to-loose/

Rep. Paul Ryan Takes on Pelosi’s “Bulldog” Deputy

“Audit the FED” Gains Support in Congress; Bipartisan

http://www.squarestate.net/diary/349/breaking-bernie-sanders-reads-the-riot-act-to-the-federal-reserve-on-the-senate-floor

Paul Ryan Questions the Goals of the “Regime” in DC

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wi) is moving up on my list of “potential 2012″ picks:

http://hotairpundit.blogspot.com/2010/04/congressman-paul-ryan-i-dont-know-how.html

Rep. Paul Ryan: What Health Care Reform Should Look Like

From the Washington Post:

If this debate had actually been about health care, we could have worked together to get a grip on costs, make quality care more accessible, address exclusions for preexisting conditions and realign the incentives of insurance companies with those of patients and doctors. Yet this process — including its embarrassing conclusion — demonstrates that the debate has never been about health-care policy but, instead, paternalistic ideology.

Should the Democrats’ health-care train wreck make it to the president’s desk, it will be a pyrrhic victory, and its devastating consequences will take their toll on our health-care system, our budget and our economy.

See the full OpEd: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/14/AR2010031401388.html