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“I think courage is on the ballot”
“I think courage is on the ballot,” he said in an interview with Patch Friday. “What I mean by that is Governor (Scott) Walker went after some of the root causes of the structural problems in the state budget.”
People might not have liked the way Walker went about budget reform, Ryan added, but going after some of the causes of the state’s deficit took a lot of guts.
“The majority of local budgets are labor,” the Republican congressman said. “So I think the message beyond Wisconsin is, don’t try and tackle these problems. If you do, as a state legislator or a governor, this is what can happen to you.”
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Is that a quote or not?
‘Cause I assume he said, “SOME people might not have liked the way Walker….”
Buckshot Bill on May 5, 2012 at 6:12 PM
I think he actually said ‘Leeches’ but they pc’ed it up a little bit….
BigWyo on May 5, 2012 at 6:35 PM
Courage or not – the GOP establishment will view Walker’s experience as a lesson “not to go there”.
Mission accomplished for the unions – they only needed to intimidate the Ayatollah’s in the GOP establishment enough to ensure they never tried, on a national level, the kind of reforms Walker implemented in Wisconsin.
You can bank that – and you can bank the fact that Willard WILL NOT tackle entitlement reform when (actually, that’s a big IF) he becomes POTUS.
HondaV65 on May 5, 2012 at 6:37 PM
Such things were said before Walker and will continue to be said for some time after he’s gone.
WeekendAtBernankes on May 5, 2012 at 7:01 PM
Sounds like Ryan is distancing himself from walker with that last paragraph. If so, why is he a hero to the GOP again? While his own plan is a start, it is not a solution in the long term. We need to start with it, then over each successive cycle, slash spending and programs more aggressively so that we can do it within 12 years, not over decades as Ryan projects it.
AH_C on May 5, 2012 at 9:00 PM