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Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Large Pair)

Posted on | April 4, 2011 | 15 Comments

The gentleman from Wisconsin steps up:

The Republican chairman of the House Budget Committee said his party’s budget proposal for 2012 would cut deficits by more than $4 trillion over the next decade, vowing to tackle costly entitlements like Medicare and Medicaid.
The proposal, set to be unveiled Tuesday, would serve as the Republicans’ official response to President Obama’s proposed $3.7 trillion budget for 2012. The White House claims its plan would cut deficits by $1.1 trillion over a decade.
But Ryan, R-Wis., in an interview with “Fox News Sunday,” accused Obama of “punting” and said Republicans’ plan would exceed the fiscal goals set by the president’s fiscal commission — which issued a report calling for $4 trillion in cuts. That report never made it out of committee.
“We can’t keep kicking this can down the road,” Ryan said. “The president has punted. We’re not going to follow suit.”

The Beltway spin on this: By proposing large cuts for the fiscal 2012 budget, Ryan’s plan gives House Republicans political “cover” if negotiations over the remainder of the fiscal 2011 budget require them to accept smaller levels of cuts for the current year.

Ryan admits that proposing big cuts — including a proposal to block-grant Medicaid funding to the state — will expose the GOP to Democrat demagoguery. Via Cubachi, here’s video of Ryan explaining his plan on “Fox News Sunday”:

Kudos to Ryan for having sufficient testicular fortitude to get serious about cutting the deficit.

UPDATE: Jazz Shaw on Twitter: “Nobody can hear Paul Ryan’s budget message. Why? Drowned out by the clanging of his enormous brass balls.”

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  • http://dad29.blogspot.com/ Dad29

    Umnnnhhh…..yah.

    No Federal Departments or Agencies were harmed in the making of Ryan’s budget, nor will they be harmed in executing it.

    So Ryan’s proposal brings us about 1/3rd of the way home.

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  • http://thecampofthesaints.org Bob Belvedere

    [Ryan's plan] would cut deficits by more than $4 trillion over the next decade….

    Why is it going to take a decade?

    It needs to be done much faster – time is running out.

  • http://thecampofthesaints.org Bob Belvedere

    [Ryan's plan] would cut deficits by more than $4 trillion over the next decade….

    Why is it going to take a decade?

    It needs to be done much faster – time is running out.

  • Joe

    Go Paul Go. More, more, more.

  • http://ak4mc.us/2c/2011/ McGehee

    …and faster, please.

  • http://thegunsreport.com Editor

    Large Pair? Ears aren’t everything, lad.

  • http://thegunsreport.com Editor

    Large Pair? Ears aren’t everything, lad.

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  • Anonymous

    Oh, for the love of Pete.

    Current deficit levels exceed $1 trillion per year.

    Cuts of $4 trillion over a decade bring the deficit down to “only” $600 billion per year, after 10 years.

    That’s not balls, that’s a weak joke.

    Until the Republicans propose a plan to actually BALANCE THE FUCKING BUDGET within a relatively short timeframe — four years or less sounds about right — they’re no more serious than Pelosi and Reid.

  • http://thecampofthesaints.org Bob Belvedere

    We’re so used to the GOP screwing the pooch that, when they even show the smallest bit of boldness, we praise them to the hilt and shout ‘Huzzah!’

    Knappster is right.

    It’s too little and it will soon be too late.

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  • http://thecampofthesaints.org Bob Belvedere

    Quoted from and Linked to Stacy’s post and to Knappster’s comment at:
    Lowered Expectations: The Consequences

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  • Anonymous

    Nice to see Beck is GONE! You are a bunch of bigots.

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