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Adam Pertman: Paul Ryan + Mother's Day + Gay Marriage = Doing What's Best for Children
We also should address another vital question, one on which most people of every political and religious stripe presumably would agree: Shouldn't our nation's laws, policies and practices serve "the best interests of the child?"
Jared Bernstein: Republican Leadership Endorses Keynesian Stimulus!
According to an aide present at the weekend retreat, Rep. Paul Ryan brought a version of John Maynard Keynes treatise, The General Theory... as a joke. "He thought he'd crack Eric and John up, but a funny thing happened when they started flipping through the book," the aide said.
Pearl Korn: Paul Ryan's Austerity Budget Should Be Replaced With the 'Back-to-Work Budget'
It is the GOP's extreme vision of what they think our country should be -- with a weak government and a free ride to corporations and the rich at the expense of the rest of us -- that has put them at odds with the electorate, which is made up of primarily hard-working and struggling Americans.
Ethan Rome: Paul Ryan, GOP Try to Cover Up Plan to Force Seniors to Wait Longer for Medicare
We already knew House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan can't give up on his dream of ending Medicare as we know it to pay for tax...
Brent Budowsky: CPAC, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Paul Ryan, and the Conservative Crack-Up
The ubiquitous opiner Justice Antonin Scalia now insults Hispanics and blacks, as he recently insulted gays while voting rights and gay rights are pending before...
Leo W. Gerard: Paul Ryan Disses "The Help" Again
Just four months ago, Americans told the Romney-Ryan team: "No." The electorate rejected them. Many voters objected to Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan treating them...
Arianna Huffington: Sunday Roundup
This week, Paul Ryan proposed a new budget that would take spending back to 1948 levels (and showed he must not have been paying attention on Election Night 2012); freshman senator Ted Cruz proved that smugness and sexism are alive and well in the U.S. Show More Summary
J.D. Kleinke: Oryancare. Obamacare for Seniors. Really.
Consumers need protections only when they are turned into consumers. And that is what Congressman Paul Ryan's budget seeks to do for -- or do to, depending on your feelings about medical capitalism -- future Medicare beneficiaries.
Jared Bernstein: Why Does Rep. Paul Ryan Get So Much Attention?
I'd been discussing the absolute non-reality of his proposal -- how the numbers don't begin to add up, the unrealistic budget cuts, the plethora of magic asterisks in the absence of actual proposals -- and the interviewer was like, "OK... but if you're right, why is his budget front page news?"
Steve H. Hanke: What Bill Clinton Can Teach Paul Ryan About Cutting Spending
If Congressman Ryan really wants to get serious about cutting spending, he should look to the one U.S. President who has squeezed the federal budget, and squeezed hard. So, who can Congressman Ryan look to for inspiration on how to actually cut spending? None other than President Bill Clinton.
Les Leopold: Paul Ryan's Budget, Ayn Rand's Dream
How can we explain why both under Bush and Obama, Wall Street has grown even larger -- so large that even Eric Holder admits they are too big to prosecute?
Bob Greenstein: Commentary: Murray's More Evenhanded Approach to Deficit Reduction Contrasts Sharply With Ryan's
The budget that Senate Budget Committee Chair Patty Murray released yesterday stands in sharp contrast to the one that her House counterpart, Paul Ryan, released...
Chad Stone: Yes, the Ryan Budget Is Contractionary
If enacted, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's budget would slow the economic recovery. Chairman Ryan selectively uses Congressional Budget Office (CBO) analysis to argue...
Robert L. Borosage: A Tale of Two Futures: Ryan against the Congressional Progressive Caucus
Budgets are pure EGO -- eyes glaze over. But this week revealed two budgets -- Rep. Paul Ryan's Republican "Path to Prosperity" 2014 budget and...
Lincoln Mitchell: Paul Ryan's Road Back to Relevance
It must be springtime. The weather is finally getting warmer, baseball season is almost here and Paul Ryan is presenting a budget proposal which, despite...
Alex Knepper: Paul Ryan's New Budget: Ideological Wish-Fulfillment Fantasy
I still admire Rep. Ryan and hope that he continues to make strides toward making serious entitlement reform possible. But if he wants to govern then he needs to bow to reality and accept that elections have consequences -- even elections that he lost.
Morna Murray: What Paul Ryan's "Path to Prosperity" Really Means
It's not just about numbers. It's not just about programs. It's about a philosophy that is fundamentally opposed to the values and principles upon which our country was founded. Let's face it. We are not a polarized nation. We are a nation at war with itself.
Rev. Chuck Currie: Ryan Budget Offers Vision Of Morally Bankrupt America
America can and should be better than Paul Ryan envisions it. Our nation should be a place where we are our brother's keeper, our sister's keeper. We are not a morally bankrupt nation, and so we must oppose Paul Ryan's proposals.
Bob Greenstein: Chairman Ryan's "Vague" and "Extreme" New Budget Plan
When House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan released his previous budget last year, I wrote that for most of the past half century, its extreme...
Robert Reich: Ryan the Redistributionist
Paul Ryan's new budget purportedly gets about 40 percent of its $4.6 trillion in spending cuts over ten years by repealing Obamacare, but Ryan's budget document doesn't mention that such a repeal would also lower taxes on corporations and the wealthy that foot Obamacare's bill.