Conservatives: Don’t Doctor The Ryan Plan
How far will conservatives go to tell Republicans they must support the Ryan budget in its entirety? A new Weekly Standard piece on Senate candidate Mike Haridopolos gives a hint. The editorial line...
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Cheerleading Ryan
What’s more fun to try and figure out: why Paul Ryan is not running for president or why the Weekly Standard and Bill Kristol are very sad that Ryan is not running for President? For the past week,...
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Ryan is Missing His Big Chance
Noah Kristula-Green pokes fun at the Weekly Standard and its editor, Bill Kristol, for their unabashed promotion of a Paul Ryan presidential run. Fair enough. However, it also should be noted that...
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Christie’s Good Fight
As a Democrat – and a fairly liberal one by the standards of where I live – it isn’t that often that someone on the right really knocks my socks off. Let alone a Republican! Yet that is exactly what...
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Huntsman Goes All in For Ryan
While watching Jon Huntsman give his remarks on his jobs plan, I paid attention to how his speech described the existential threat of US debt. Huntsman made clear he supports a Balanced Budget...
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Memo to GOP: Don’t Run on What Voters Don’t Want
With the national debt skyrocketing, a faction on the right is hoping to turn the 2012 election into a debate on entitlement reform. No doubt, many Democrats are hoping the very same thing. Democrats...
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The Road to Treadmill Serfdom
It’s a little hard to tell this story from Chicago without a lot of sarcasm, but I’ll try my best. Like a lot of American cities, Chicago faces severe budget problems. One obvious place to look for...
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More Obama Criticisms Fail Reality Test
The Obama administration’s economic policies have disappointed almost everybody. Yet if we are to get better results in future, it’s important to understand – not only that the administration is...
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To Govern Better, GOP Should Work From Reality
In my previous blog post, I discussed how many Republican criticisms of the Obama administration’s policies are not backed up by data. Republicans don’t just have a problem with specific critiques,...
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The Right to Rise? Ok!
In today’s Wall Street Journal, Gov. Jeb Bush celebrates the “right to rise,” a concept he credits to Rep. Paul Ryan. The idea behind the phrase is a powerful one: “We have to make it easier for...
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