I think you would lose the House in 2 years if you did that.
I give Ryan credit for trying to balance the budget. But his approach was entirely wrong. He focused on cutting entitlements instead of getting people back to work. Get people back to work, you have a lot more money for entitlements even as you have less demand for entitlements.
Put Ryan is tainted as cold hearted at this point, and until you overcome that, you can’t put him in as speaker of the house without that same taint extending to all GOP.
Huh? Ryan polls quite well and is in no way tainted. His solutions are not unpopular, and in fact are the signature legislation of the House majority that just got overwhelmingly returned to Washington.
In fact, I guarantee you see Obama latch on to parts of his budget by spring to show his compromising abilities.
Let the other side define us. Conservativism = cold-hearted and evil.
What? You just stated the the liberal platform. How are we supposed to get people back to work if they are comfortable with their entitlements? You can't just keep spending money (on top of not bringing in enough to match) and expect things to get better.