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On budget, Paul Ryan is the adult Barack Obama claims to be

February 17, 2012 by B. Daniel Blatt

Well before Memorial Day, the Obama administration will achieve a dubious distinction, having accumulated more debt in those 40 months than George W. Bush accumulated in 96.  With the Treasury Secretary acknowledging yesterday that his team (i.e., the administration) doesn’t have a “definitive solution” to the nation’s growing debt problem, we now know that they’re punting on a crisis that Barack Obama, as candidate, promised to address.

Although the Democrat put himself forward as the adult in the room during last summer’s negotiations on the debt ceiling, this week’s budget shows that he and his advisors have been anything but grownup in dealing with the debt crisis.  Last fall, just after the House Budget Committee Chairman “spoke on ‘The American Idea’ at the Heritage Foundation in Washington”, Peggy Noonan explained why Paul Ryan merited the honorific the president accorded to himself:

Mr. Ryan receives much praise, but I don’t think his role in the current moment has been fully recognized. He is doing something unique in national politics. He thinks. He studies. He reads. Then he comes forward to speak, calmly and at some length, about what he believes to be true. He defines a problem and offers solutions, often providing the intellectual and philosophical rationale behind them. Conservatives naturally like him—they agree with him—but liberals and journalists inclined to disagree with him take him seriously and treat him with respect.

Ryan scored the president for his pettiness and slammed “corporate welfare and crony capitalism”:

Rather than raise taxes on individuals, we should “lower the amount of government spending the wealthy now receive.” The “true sources of inequity in this country,” he continued, are “corporate welfare that enriches the powerful, and empty promises that betray the powerless.” The real class warfare that threatens us is “a class of bureaucrats and connected crony capitalists trying to rise above the rest of us, call the shots, rig the rules, and preserve their place atop society.”

In that speech as in others as well as in the budget he has authored, Paul Ryan has been making the “tough choices” the president hails, but fails to make himself.  In this current crisis, we need more leaders like Ryan who score the president for kicking the can down the road.  That is the crucial issue in the coming election.

Should more Republicans think and speak like Ryan, Peggy contends, “the party would flourish. People would be less fearful for the future. And Mr. Obama wouldn’t be seeing his numbers go up.”

Filed Under: 2012 Presidential Election, Big Government Follies, Noble Republicans, Obama Incompetence

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  1. ILoveCapitalism says

    February 17, 2012 at 6:39 pm - February 17, 2012

    Paul Ryan is the adult Barack Obama claims to be

    Dan, well put!

    The real class warfare that threatens us is “a class of bureaucrats and connected crony capitalists trying to rise above the rest of us, call the shots, rig the rules, and preserve their place atop society.”

    Paul, well put! Why, oh why aren’t you running for President?

    You’ve voiced a profound truth about the left-liberal ruling class. They always, *always* want the Big Government solution to any problem. Because having a huge, bloated government is what keeps them in power, as the ruling class.

    Say inequality is perceived as a problem. Well, some inequality is valid (when it results from merit) and some is not (when it results from unfair political pull). We need to distinguish between the two kinds, because we should only want to kill one of them.

    Now along come the Democrats. They’re completely captive to the second kind of inequality (political pull). They disguise it, distract, deflect and protect their interests by doing everything in their power to kill the first kind of inequality (merit differences) – say, with punishing tax increases.

    The only sane and moral course is to concentrate on killing the second kind of inequality (based on political pull) – with budget cuts, especially cuts to ANYTHING that smacks of industrial policy – and reductions in the monstrously overgrown size and powers of our government.

  2. Steve says

    February 17, 2012 at 9:35 pm - February 17, 2012

    Always love visiting! Keep up the great work!!

    Steve
    Common Cents
    http://www.commoncts.blogspot.com

    ps. Link Exchange?

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