Budgets.

Guy Benson has a useful bullet-point summary. This budget is less realistic than Ryan’s last two budgets, but that’s because the purpose of introducing a budget this year is different than it was the past two years. Philip Klein explains the wishful thinking involved: Ryan’s budget is likely to come under criticism from several fronts, [...]

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Wonkin' out.

Even though the Romney/Ryan team didn’t manage to turn Wisconsin’s presidential vote around for Republicans, Paul Ryan hedged his bets and did win reelection to his House seat yesterday, and has confirmed that he’ll be returning to Congress. It’s pretty painful thinking about the ways in which Paul Ryan might’ve used the second-highest office in [...]

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The man was born ready.

Jazz already posted speech excerpts and some past videos of Paul Ryan’s prosperity-promotin’ badassery, but just for good measure and if you’re not yet feeling the excitement, here are a few more. Below is the full video of Romney and Ryan rolling out the Comeback Team earlier this morning — I think Ryan might’ve been [...]

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But still no viable plan of his own.

The president’s own budget failed the House by a unanimous vote, while the Paul Ryan budget maneuvered through the lower chamber by a vote of 228 to 191. Yet, the president still plans to criticize the Ryan plan with searing words that don’t actually address the ideas in the budget: In a speech the president [...]

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Predictable.

As expected, Wisconsin Republican Rep. Paul Ryan endorsed Mitt Romney this morning, making the announcement in an appearance on Fox and Friends. The timing of his decision coincides with the recent end of Ryan’s stint as chairman of the Republican National Committee presidential trust, “which made it difficult for him to pick a horse in [...]

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Not necessarily.

As the House passes Paul Ryan’s latest budget, a minor controversy brews outside Congress about whether it matters that, according to the CBO, it doesn’t balance. The controversy is occurring on the conservative side of the aisle — but it’s easy for liberals to exploit. Some lefties are already suggesting Ryan’s budget is proof positive [...]

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Sort of.

No, just kidding. No one who’s this honest about our fiscal nightmare will ever be elected president. Ryan knows that. I assume Mitch Daniels does too. Even so, Mark Hemingway calls this “the best presidential campaign ad of 2012.” Dude, I’m writing him in.

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"Class warfare makes for very bad economics."

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) agrees with the president that we need to close a few loopholes in the tax code. But whereas President Obama frequently refers to tax breaks in the same breath as he disparages oil company executives and corporate jet owners, Ryan has just one goal in mind: to lower tax rates to [...]

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