Posted on 04/15/2011 6:19:21 AM PDT by Kaslin
Rep. Paul Ryan made a forceful case for his Path to Prosperity budget this morning and blasted the argument that President Obama outlined in a speech in downtown Washington, DC. He highlighted the irreconcilable differences between his plan and the President's, while admitting he'd been tricked into thinking that Democrats were ready to have a serious conversation about America's entitlement crisis and fiscal future.
"We realized that this wasn't about building bridges. It was about partisanship. What we got yesterday was the opposite of what he said was necessary to is this problem."
Ryan arrived, as usual, flanked by an armada of charts and graphs. "It wouldn't be me if I didn't bring some charts," he announced as he arrived. He supplemented what he said on future debt with many of the same charts he has used to reinforce his case for aggressive reform.
While the President's speech yesterday was billed as his layout of a competing budget vision, no actual plan came out. The only document that the White House produced is a transcript of the Obama speech. "This was a speech, not a plan," Ryan said. "There is no plan, as far as I can tell."
In fact, many of Ryan's charts had to compare his budget projections to the February Obama budget out of necessity. The lack of an actual Obama plan seemed to frustrate the congressman, as he has had to continue comparing his plan to Obama's "fundamentally unserious" budget proposal.
In advance of the speech, the Obama administration sent officials to brief members of Congress on Capitol Hill. But it wasn't an economist from the Treasury Department, or a budgeter from the Office of Management and Budget that the Administration used to put their best foot forward with opposition GOP budgeting legislators. "He sent his campaign manager to discuss the plan," Ryan said, indicating that he believed this was more of a campaign stunt, not a serious policy proposal.
President Obama's speech laid out the path forward from his empty rhetoric to an agreement, saying, "in early May, the Vice President will begin regular meetings with leaders in both parties with the aim of reaching a final agreement on a plan to reduce the deficit and get it done by the end of June." This sounded strikingly similar to farming out the dirty work to other people.
Ryan said Obama "wants another commission – the Biden Commission. We've had so many commissions… why don't we just do our jobs? We keep punting to other people."
In a round of appearances yesterday, the congressman struck similar chords. "I've never seen a President give a speech like this before. I've never seen a President stoop to this level of distortion, demagoguery and partisanship," he said on the Mark Levin show yesterday. "He invited us to come to the speech... We were led to believe that there was going to be an olive branch. And then we get this total political broadside. I expect these kinds of comments from Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid - that goes without saying - but to get these things from the President, it's just amazing to me."
Ryan's response was hosted by Economics 21, a nonprofit research organization.
Seriously, what did anyone expect?
The republicans got suckered again, they will never learn. What don’t they understand about hardball.
Stop treating the demon from hell with nice comments. Call him an the evil vindictive, partisan he is and be done with it. You might toss in coward and bully too. The guy refuses to go toe to toe with anyone, he just talks from his elevated and protected podium in fron of adoring Obamabots.
You can trust Obama to care about one thing — his “vision” of perfection. he will do whatever he has to do to advance it.
Period.
Don’t expect otherwise.
Ever.
A new sleep study?
"Hi there, Americans. Obama put me in charge of the trillion dollar
stimulus. My son and brother are gonna help me disperse the money. "
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Fraudster had links to offshore fund run by Bidens
Reuters on Yahoo | 2/23/09 | BY Ajay Kamalakaran
(Reuters) – A fund of offshore hedge funds run by two members of VP Joe Biden's family was marketed exclusively by offshore firms controlled by Texas financier Allen Stanford, charged by regulators with an $8 billion fraud, the Wall Street Journal said.
The Bidens $50 million fund was jointly branded between the Bidens' Paradigm Global Advisors LLC and the offshore Stanford Financial Group entity headquartered in Antigua, and was known as the Paradigm Stanford Capital Management Core Alternative Fund, the paper said. Stanford-related offshore companies marketed the Biden fund to investors and also invested about $2.7 million of their own money in the fund, the paper said, citing a lawyer for Paradigm.
Paradigm Global Advisors is owned through a holding company by the vice president Biden's son, Hunter, and Joe Biden's brother, James, according to the WSJ. Paradigm's attorney, Marc LoPresti, who represents Hunter Biden and James Biden, as well as Paradigm, told the paper he did not know which Stanford entity invested the roughly $2.7 million.
Marc LoPresti, who represents Hunter Biden and James Biden told the paper the Bidens NEVER met or communicated with Stanford. (/snicker)
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I roll my eyes at Ryan and his socialist budget...
The repubs had better figure out that negotiating with the dims is like negotiating with the North Koreans. And treat them as such.
I guess he will just keep forming commissions until one comes up with the results he wants........what a loser!
The Democrats will fight budget reform with every weapon in their arsenal, because it strikes directly at the heart of their existence: ever-expanding power over our lives. They will ofter no compromise—though they’ll pretend to—and they’ll demagogue the process every step of the way.
It sounds like Paul Ryan has arrived at this conclusion himself, and the freshman class knew it when they arrived. Will the GOP leadership finally admit it and get behind Paul to fight for real entitlement reform and an end to the gargantuan spending?
Paul Ryan for President in 2020!
Everyone, I mean EVERYONE else agreed the speech was nothing more than a partisan campaign speech (in which he personally attacked Ryan), not intended to propose any serious economic reform.
Yet thats exactly how the leftist 4th estate clowns reported it.
Happens every day in the statist press, but I just can't get used to it.
If you are going to launch cheap shots it would be appropriate to provide a little backup reasoning. Your comment alone does not advance anyone's understanding.
They never seem to figure out that the National Socialist Democrat party are NOT our friends. For starters, they should have told der Fuehrer to pound sand and not attended his campaign speech. Since they didn’t, when the insults started they should have stood up, walked out, flipped him off on the way out (no, the democrat party and der Fuehrer are due no respect) and told the press on the way out that they have no obligation to sit through an insulting campaign speech. Unfortunately, the GOP has no gonads. You’re not there to build bipartisanship, you’re there to tear down and throw out the democrat party.
FUBO & FAD
I like your work!
I hope that remark is a parody on how Biden will respond?
The republicans got suckered again, they will never learn. What don’t they understand about hardball.
I’ll tell you. They know that whatever the House comes up with as a plan, has no chance of passage in the Senate or by this President, which then begs the question, why not shoot for the moon when you have nothing to lose?
IOW I’m with you. If your plan is good, at least try to avoid looking like dunces willing to cave on everything.
Great. America is heading into bankruptcy and Chairman Zero wants to set up “The Plugs Patrol”.
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