CPAC 2013 - Paul Ryan

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI), vice-presidential candidate on the 2012 Republican ticket, understandably made budget proposals the focus of his speech at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference.

They are the party of shared hardship. We are the party of equal opportunity.

I’m proud of our budget, because it’s changed the conversation. Today, we are not talking about cliffs or ceilings or sequesters. We’re talking about solutions. And that’s how it should be. Our budget expands opportunity by growing the economy. It strengthens the safety net by retooling government. And it restores fairness by ending cronyism. And by setting priorities, and choosing wisely, we have a plan to pay off our debt. In fact, we balance the budget in ten years, without raising taxes. How do we do this? You know, it’s really pretty simple. We stop spending money we don’t have.

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Mark Levin - President Obama: You LIED

Radio Talk Show Host Mark Levin sat down with Fox News Sean Hannity tonight (3/13/2013) to dismiss President Obama's attempts at outreach to the Republican party as no more than a stunt, and also too little too late, considering his past harsh rhetoric against the GOP. Levin took the Democrats to task for piling on Paul Ryan's budget while proposing a budget of their own that Levin called far more catastrophic and said the Democrats are "trying to take the country over the cliff."

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Paul Ryan - House GOP unveils A Responsible, Balanced Budget

Today, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and Committee Republicans released their plan to balance the budget in ten years. It is a responsible plan to cut spending, reform government, and foster a healthier economy. It provides economic security for families, repairs the safety net for the poor, strengthens retirement for seniors, and expands opportunity for all.

March 12, 2013

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Dr. Ben Carson - Obama's Charm Offensive

"As we allow the Government to take more and more of our money, all it does is fuel their growth."
Dr. Benjamin Carson

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Mary Grabar - The Historically Incorrect Smear of Paul Ryan

Recently announced Vice Presidential pick Paul Ryan is being called a radical by the left for his fiscal policies. But no one would expect that anyone would imply that the Roman Catholic family man would be a Black Panther. Yet, the New York Times ran the headline "Paul Ryan, Black Panther?" on the day after the announcement was made. This was in a series called “Historically Corrected.”

(So when will the New York Times allow me to blog in a series titled “Why You Should Read George Orwell and Other Novelists”?)

This of course was false advertising, for anyone reading it could see that the three (three!) authors were stretching to make a connection between what Paul Ryan's father had often told him and a possible membership in the Black Panthers.

These three authors took a phrase that has over the decades become part of our everyday parlance--"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem"--traced its use back to Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver, and speculated that Ryan had made the "Republicans' big tent a little bigger." Is it a joke, or do they really want to imply that the Republican Party welcomes the Black Panthers who did more than serve breakfast to poor children, like rape and murder, including their own members?

And the three authors are not the proverbial Tea Partiers sitting around in their pajamas blogging about various conspiracies--as the left so often characterizes conservative bloggers.

No, these three individuals are professors at Washington College, where they are affiliated with the C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience.

The regularly featured New York Times blog post, "Historically Corrected," under which this post ran, is a project of the Center's faculty and students. These three authors of the 680-word blog post were assisted by two student researchers.

The eminent scholars are:

The Center Director, Adam Goodheart, a Civil War historian, who blogs regularly for the New York Times "Opinionator" series, as well as for such publications as the Atlantic and American Scholar.

Peter Manseau, Scholar in Residence, also a lecturer in English, who is working on his doctorate in religious studies. Most of his writing is in fiction and memoir. His scholarship seems to veer toward the creative and religous--and not to "historical correction."

Ted Widmer is described as "former presidential speechwriter" and founding director of the Center. What is not stated in the byline is that Widmer was a speechwriter for Bill Clinton. I did not need a student assistant to soon find that Widmer is an Affiliated Scholar at the Center for American Progress. CAP, of course, is heavily funded by billionaire George Soros who was convicted for insider trading and who bankrolled Barack Obama's election. According to the website, Widmer "designed the prototype for the American Studies Institute, a collaborative project with the State Department that brings young Muslims to the United States for summer programs." We are told that his research "concentrates on U.S. history particularly presidential history, the colonial period, and the 19th and the 20th centuries." He is also "doing scholarly work on how U.S. history shapes electoral politics." Methinks it might be the other way around, especially given this latest account of Black Panther history.

We can expect smearing and innuendo during campaign season. We can expect it from the liberal media. We know about the campaign of personal attack begun in 1964 when it was honed so well by Daniel Schorr and Bill Moyers who went on to fame and fortune at the government media outlet NPR. But when supposed scholars engage in the smearing of a candidate through a stretch that would not meet the standards of the supermarket tabloid and under the pretense of correcting history that is a new low. These three scholars, instead, are acting like members of the Ministry of Truth, er, I mean Obama's "Truth Team."

Mary Grabar

Mary Grabar is a writer and college English teacher, whose parents escaped from Slovenia in 1959 and spent a year in a refugee camp in Austria. They immigrated to Rochester, New York, when she was two.

Her views have been formed by experiences as an immigrant during the racial violence in Rochester in the 1960s and then at her alma mater, Benjamin Franklin Junior-Senior High School.

She tried to be a liberal, but then quickly realized that it was an exclusive club. Her conversion to conservatism was cinched when she returned to school in the master's program in English in the 1990's.

In spite of the hostility of most of the faculty and the torture of having to wade through postmodern nonsense, she earned her Ph.D. from the University of Georgia in 2002.

Mary Grabar is a frequent Columnist at Town Hall.com and writes articles for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Newspaper.

Visit Mary's Website and her other Website: The Literate Citizen

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Ted Cruz - Meet the Press - Political Round Table

NBC's David Gregory hosts the Political Round Table panel comprised of: Ted Cruz - Republican Nominee for U.S. Senate in Texas; Kasim Reed (D) - Mayor of Atlanta, GA; E.J. Dionne - Columnist for the Washington Post; Peggy Noonan - Columnist for the Wall Street Journal, and Chuck Todd - Political Director for NBC News. Today's Topics: The Paul Ryan effect on the tone of the campaign, Medicare, and VP Joe Biden's gaffes.

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Bill Whittle - A Great Way to Win and Lose

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) has energized the 2012 race for the White House since Mitt Romney tapped him as his pick for vice president. Bill Whittle wants to know why Ryan is the only public servant in America to propose a serious plan to save the nation from certain fiscal ruin. He is also, win or lose, the best man on the ticket this year. Hear why.

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Paul Ryan Interviewed by Brit Hume

In his first one-on-one interview since being named Vice Presidential Candidate, Paul Ryan (R-WI) sits down in Denver, with FNC's Senior Political Analyst Brit Hume, to discuss Medicare, Obamacare, Budget Balancing, Tax Cuts and how he rejects Ayn Rand's Objectivism Philosophy.

August 14, 2012

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Kevin McCullough - 10 Reasons Ryan is Right for Romney

Paul Ryan--as the pick for Vice President--is a demonstrative, serious, commitment by Governor Mitt Romney to fulfill the vision of returning America to fiscal sanity.

There exists almost no more important reason for this selection to be lauded, by people of every race, religion, ethnic influence, sexual orientation, skin color, and way of life. All we needed to learn about which ticket will be laser focused on causing the economy to be improved, jobs to be created, business formation to begin to grow, and ultimately improve the quality of every American's life, was asserted loud and clear in the pick of the seven term congressman from Wisconsin.

No one else is singularly more qualified to join the already strong credentials of economic improvement for Team Romney than the sometimes only man who stood between President Obama's view of economic destruction, and true free-market solutions that would thwart it. Thus he has accepted.

But for common sense voters there is an infinite record of votes that Congressman Ryan has cast in seven terms, and I believe it might be helpful to see ten additional reasons as to why a Vice President Ryan can not only be trusted with leadership, but demonstrate his commitment to America, his entire elected life.

1. Voted YES on prohibiting job discrimination based on sexual orientation. (Nov 2007)
   
   Voted YES on Constitutionally defining marriage as one-man-one-woman. (Jul 2006)
   
   Even those on both sides of the marriage debate will find something to criticize in these two votes, Congressman Ryan has had a consistently pro-equality viewpoint, while defending rights of children to have a mother and a father. His view of freedom, does not interfere with a person's sexual choices.His view of values protects the institution of marriage, to keep it from becoming the next great laboratory of societal experimentation.
2. Strongly supports an 8.5% Business Consumption Tax instead of taxing profit. (Jul 2009) The benefit of this position would help the growth and advancement of small business in ways few had articulated. It puts fewer limitations on the number one job creating sector in our economy--the small business, and it creates a tangible measurement of how companies can plan for the taxes they will owe--in advance of production. This will do nothing but aid business formation (currently at its lowest measure since World War II) and advance the economic incentive to create jobs.
3. Voted YES on reauthorizing the DC opportunity scholarship program. (Mar 2011)
   
   Voted NO on additional $10.2B for federal education projects. (Nov 2007)
   
   Congressman Ryan understands the challenges of students who are increasingly in need of quality education. By desiring to base help on merit, and not per se a guarantee to any specific school district, he demonstrates that results must be the outcome of any monies spent for education--not excuses.
4. Voted YES on opening Outer Continental Shelf to oil drilling. (May 2011)
   
   Voted YES on scheduling permitting for new oil refineries. (Jun 2006)
   
   Voted YES on authorizing construction of new oil refineries. (Oct 2005).
   
   Paul Ryan has demonstrated a consistent commitment to making America energy independent. This will not be a mere campaign slogan. And when America is sitting on trillions of barrels, why would we be paying Brazil and Argentina to develop their energy supplies--as President Obama has done.
5. Voted YES on speeding up approval of forest thinning projects. (Nov 2003) Voted NO on $2 billion more for Cash for Clunkers program. (Jul 2009)
   
   These votes suggest Ryan understands the need to -- help the environment by creating fewer targets for yearly, wildly out of control, wildfires from eating up hundreds and thousands of miles of land each year. Simultaneously not buying into the joke that the Government buying old cars and trashing them, will improve--anything. (Except a few crony friends of the administration.)
6. Voted YES on reducing Marriage Tax by $399B over 10 years. (Mar 2001)
   
   Since marriage partners are presently punished by the federal tax code (as opposed to what many sexual activists tout), Ryan recognizes that raising a family is hard work, and since society benefits from the production of children and the population for the nation's future brought about therein. This vote demonstrated wisdom in helping our nation grow stronger in years to come.
7. Multi-year commitment to Africa for food & medicine. (Apr 2001)
   
   Withhold UN funding until voluntary and program-specific. (Aug 2011)
   
   For such a fiscally responsible congressional representative, Ryan also recognizes the ability for America to do good. Feeding orphans in Africa, supplying Africans with the relatively inexpensive AIDS cocktail treatments demonstrate a compassion for those in true need. Forcing the UN to be transparent and account for the funding they already get, is simply being wise in how we account for our tax-payer dollars.
8. Voted YES on banning federal health coverage that includes abortion. (May 2011)
   
   Voted YES on restricting interstate transport of minors to get abortions. (Apr 2005)
   
   Voted YES on making it a crime to harm a fetus during another crime. (Feb 2004)
   
   Paul Ryan's respect for innocent human life is without question and while grotesque statutory rapists may oppose his most significant votes on these issues, few people of common sense would find themselves being able to muster a defense against them.
9. Voted YES on the Ryan Budget: Medicare choice, tax & spending cuts. (Apr 2011)
   
   Voted YES on repealing the "Prevention and Public Health" slush fund. (Apr 2011)
   
   Many people will attempt to say that by giving Medicare recipients more options that Paul Ryan was seeking ways to hurt the individual. Yet Ryan is savvy enough to know that they way you truly hurt the individual is by removing choices. He also mistrusts government deeply enough to know that nothing as vague as a slush fund, should ever be given sanction for politicians to spend--especially those who live in Washington DC.
10. "America is an idea, it's the only country founded on an idea. Our rights come from nature and God, not from government!"

One of the most important lines of his acceptance speech on Saturday, demonstrating that his understanding of not only his rights, but equally his responsibility come from a source that is bigger, more powerful, and ultimately more informed than he is.

High-mindedness, humility, and honor, are three characteristics severely lacking in today's political system. But they are also three traits that Paul Ryan has built his public and private life around.

A bold pick, for a tough job, and for the benefit of a great nation!

Kevin McCullough

Kevin McCullough is the nationally syndicated host of "The Kevin McCullough Show" weekdays (7-9am EST) & "Baldwin/McCullough Radio" Saturdays (9-11pm EST) on 289 stations & Sirius/XM . His newest best-selling hardcover from Thomas Nelson Publishers, "No He Can't: How Barack Obama is Dismantling Hope and Change" is in stores now.

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Paul Ryan Discusses the Fiscal Cliff

Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI) discusses efforts made to prevent the fiscal cliff from happening at the end of the year. "The president hasn't proposed a single solution [to the fiscal cliff] in any of his four budget submissions he sent to Congress,".

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Star Parker - Paul Ryan’s Budget Is a Moral Budget

Rep. Paul Ryan, (R-Wis), chairman of the House budget committee, provoked some angry push back when he claimed that not only is his proposed sweeping revamp of the US budget fiscally sound but also morally sound.

In a CBN interview, Ryan said he draws inspiration from his Catholic faith.

He argues that Catholic priority for caring for the poor should focus on helping folks move out of poverty. “…..don’t make people dependent on government so they stay stuck in their station in life, help people get out of poverty out onto life of independence.”

Catholics criticizing Ryan don’t see it this way. They see him cutting back on welfare programs that focus on the needy.

But this is not a new debate, and it’s not limited to Catholics. Those on the religious left of all religious persuasions have long been criticizing religious conservatives, claiming they’re indifferent to poverty and care only about abortion and homosexuality.

It’s a critical discussion for our nation today and Ryan deserves credit for casting his proposed reforms in moral as well economic terms. It provides the opportunity to challenge today’s conventional wisdom that morality and economy are separate universes having little to do with each other.

It’s not true.

I can speak from personal experience going back to my years on welfare. The intent of federal welfare programs might have been to help the poor, but they caused far more damage than benefit.

When you tell a poor mother that to qualify for her check, she must demonstrate that she is single, not working, and has no savings, what are the chances she’ll get married, look for a job, and put money in the bank? When this goes on for generations, what do you think this does to a community?

It’s no accident that in 1960, according to the Pew Research Center, five years before President Johnson signed into law his War on Poverty, 61 percent of black adults were married. By 2008 this was down to 32 percent. In 1960, 2 percent of black children had a parent that had never been married. By 2008, this was up to 41 percent.

Consider Social Security. Social Security’s Board of Trustees just issued a devastating annual report. They project the system going into the red in 2035, three years earlier than predicted last year. The system’s long term unfunded liabilities – the amount by which projected obligations exceed projected revenues - are $8.6 trillion, more than half the size of the entire US economy.

Discussions about how to fix the system focus on numbers and accounting. But the numbers are symptoms, not causes.

The Social Security payments that current retirees get are from the payroll taxes that those currently working pay. What is driving the system into bankruptcy is the shrinking number of those working per retiree. In 1950 the average was 16.5 workers per retiree. Now it is 2.9. The Trustees report projects this to be down to 2.0 by 2035.

What happened?

One major factor is we’re having fewer children. Fertility rates - the average number of births per woman - have fallen dramatically. The average U.S. fertility rate, per the UN, in the period 2005-2010 was 40 percent lower than during 1950-1955.

John Mueller of the Ethics and Public Policy Center argues convincingly of the major impact of legal abortion to this dramatic drop in the ratio of those working to retirees.

To solve our national crisis we need to sort out symptoms from causes. The bankruptcy of our entitlement programs is the symptom.

The cause is loss of individual freedom and breakdown of values, personal responsibility and marriage caused by entitlement culture materialism.

Paul Ryan is right to see this in moral terms. We must change, and all change begins with character and personal transformation.

Star Parker

Star Parker is founder and president of CURE, the Center for Urban Renewal and Education, a 501c3 think tank which explores and promotes market based public policy to fight poverty, as well as author of the newly revised Uncle Sam's Plantation: How Big Government Enslaves America's Poor and What We Can do About It.

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Paul Ryan corrects those confused on combating poverty

Compassion for those in need is not a function of how much borrowed money the federal government throws at unreformed, unaccountable programs.

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan

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Paul Ryan on solutions that stand in solidarity with the poor

Discussion following Paul Ryan's Whittington Lecture delivered at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute.

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Congressman Paul Ryan Makes Case for Budget

REP. PAUL RYAN (R-WIS.), chair of the House Budget Committee, addressed a Georgetown audience as the speaker for Georgetown Public Policy Institute's annual Whittington Lecture.

April 2012

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Rep. Paul Ryan On Unlocking America's Economic Growth Potential

Congressman Paul Ryan, Chairman of the House Budget Committee, sits with Steve Forbes to discuss the choices American faces in the 2012 election, the economic policies the U.S. should embrace for future growth and how to tackle issues around funding Medicare. From the George W. Bush Presidential Center's Tax Policies for 4% Growth conference at the New-York Historical Society.

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Rep. Paul Ryan - Obama Has No Plan for Debt Crisis

Apr 10, 2012 FBN’s David Asman with Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), who weighs in on Rick Santorum’s withdrawing from the 2012 election, and the Republican plan for the budget and economy.

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Bill Whittle - I'M TALKING TO YOU

At current spending rates, there will be no U.S. Economy by 2027. That's not Bill's opinion: that's the opinion of the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, using the Obama Administration's own numbers, and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner doesn't even bother to deny it.

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Allen Barton - Ryan's Hope: A New Budget That Cuts Taxes and Curbs Spending

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) put forward a new budget the simplifies the tax code while cutting spending. Is it possible to clean up the federal balance sheet with just two tax rates of 10% and 25%? Find out as Allen Barton talks to Brian Doherty of Reason Magazine, and Terry Jones of IBD.

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Tim Geithner to Paul Ryan: "We don't have a definitive solution... We just don't like yours"

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Paul Ryan - Fox News Sunday

"The irony of this is the president’s policies do the exact opposite. We basically have this. The president can't run on his record. It’s a miserable record. He is not going to change his tune and moderate like say Bill Clinton did in 1996 because he’s really stuck with his ideology so he has no choice but to divide. So he is going to run a very decisive campaign for political gain and he has this concept of fairness and equality where he uses the kind of rhetoric we use, but the policies he's producing will result in crony capitalism will result in more power in the government to supervise our lives, to give us a stagnant economy where the rich and the powerful are the ones who are picking it. So what I'm trying to say is he is giving us a future of debt, doubt, and decline."
Paul Ryan

January 29, 2012

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