Ryan: Eventual nominee will support GOP budget

NBC News today asked House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) this question after he unveiled his budget plan that cuts trillions in spending: Will the eventual GOP nominee support it?

Ryan's answer: “Absolutely. I'm confident saying it.”
 
He added, “Whoever our nominee is going to be owes the country that choice of two futures. We're helping them put this together. And each of these people running for president have all given their various ideas on reforms, some that perfectly jive -- are consistent with what we're proposing here.”
 
In May of 2011, Democrat Kathy Hochul won a special election in a conservative leaning district right outside of Buffalo, NY. Her path to victory was an all-out assault on Ryan's budget -- specifically its overhaul of Medicare. Signs that read, “Save Medicare Vote Democratic!” were plastered all around the district. Hochul’s upset victory and gain of a GOP seat galvanized Democrats. They saw running against Ryan’s budget as the key to winning over seniors, a group that had largely left them in the 2010 midterm elections.
 
Around that time, Ryan’s budget, which had passed the House 235-193 on a largely party line vote, garnered some criticism from GOP presidential nominees. In May on "Meet the Press," Newt Gingrich called the Ryan budget “right-wing social engineering”; Gingrich has since backtracked and now supports it including the new one unveiled today.
 
Front-runner Mitt Romney embraced Ryan's budget today, with the campaign releasing this statement from the candidate: 

"I applaud House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan and his colleagues for taking a bold step toward putting our nation back on the track to fiscal sanity and robust economic growth."

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Eventual nominee will support GOP budget

You mean the Ryan Budget 2.0?

We recognize leftovers when we see them - covering some smelly salmon with a lemon sauce doesn't make it fresh!

Don't these fools EVER learn?

Paul good luck, nailing Willard down on supporting ANYTHING! lol

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#1 - Tue Mar 20, 2012 6:32 PM EDT

You are wrong.

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#1.1 - Tue Mar 20, 2012 6:38 PM EDT

ALL the GOP candidates are Norquistians. They are ALL for income inequality.

Ryan Budget gives additional tax break of $150,000 for the wealthy, while ending MediCare as we know it & taking a hatchet to Pell grants and student loans, etc. The usual litany of austerities, while contributing zero additional revenues to the Treasury.

They are All for Big Corporations running our lives, taking away our voices & the chance for us to make a better future for our children.

All of them.

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#1.2 - Tue Mar 20, 2012 6:38 PM EDT

We can all pull out the signs again that Kathy Hochul used.

Save MEDICARE vote DEMOCRATIC!

That ought to do it!

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#1.3 - Tue Mar 20, 2012 6:51 PM EDT

The only time the republicans are not giving tax cuts to the richest, is when they are taking rights away from women.

Now if the republicans win, the seniors better get ready to move in with the kids. No more money or health-care for the seniors when we have wars to fight and most important we have tax cuts that the rich need.

VOTE......A SEA OF BLUE FOR REAL FREEDOM.....2012

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#1.4 - Tue Mar 20, 2012 6:52 PM EDT

@ Americans First

Alot of people I know are already having parents, grandparents, etc move in with them. If one of these RWNJs gets elected, They'll have to figure out who eats and who doesn't. What a sad sad state we've fallen to.

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#1.5 - Tue Mar 20, 2012 7:04 PM EDT

How nifty the little libbies on these boards are so reactionary. The same old mantra... the same worn out lines that have zero meaning except to liberals. I'll bet before going to sleep at night you repeat all your little meaningless lines like "republicans are only for the 1%," republicans only want tax breaks for the rich," republicans are against seniors," and how many more I've heard from libbies that are like recycled garbage.

It wouldn't be so funny, except you've said these same old lines of trash so many times, over and over and over, that you actually believe them.

Now to address the real issue... what plan do the democrats have to reduce the deficit and reduce the national debt? Where are all those whiz bang ideas? ::crickets::

Nooooo... the only plan the democrats have is to spend us into bankruptcy, the fall of the dollar and the collapse of our economy. The seniors will be really hurt by the democrat plan... in fact it will kill them.

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#1.6 - Tue Mar 20, 2012 7:05 PM EDT

Is that a prison guard tower in your avatar pic? The way to save is get out of all these wars. Not tax the little guys. why can't rich CEOs and Corporations pay taxes like everyone else?

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#1.7 - Tue Mar 20, 2012 7:13 PM EDT

Here's one I just came across. Obama is now blaming the founding fathers for his inability to do his job. I'm telling you Obama is nothing more than good old Captain Kickass.

His own words are captured on this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HeoxAmmxnI

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#1.8 - Tue Mar 20, 2012 7:18 PM EDT

Fuzzy - what do you care? I'll bet you pay no taxes either... why complain?

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#1.9 - Tue Mar 20, 2012 7:19 PM EDT

More of the myth that the middle class does not pay federal income tax. If that's the case, I want my $8000.00 back.

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#1.10 - Tue Mar 20, 2012 7:26 PM EDT

Now Feisty---give Romney some credit---he will support the Ryan budget when it suits him to support it and then when the weathervane shifts, he won't support it.

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#1.11 - Tue Mar 20, 2012 7:40 PM EDT

FRR: We recognize leftovers when we see them - covering some smelly salmon with a lemon sauce doesn't make it fresh!

Don't these fools EVER learn?

Or are the real fools the ones that try to cover and defend the fishy mess of the other guys not even trying to do a budget IN THREE YEARS.

BH: while ending MediCare as we know it

What we know is that Medicare is going broke and Obama /Dems will cut $500,000,000.00 from Medicare with Obamacare. We know that free contraceptives for the Paris Hiltons and Kim Kardashians are obviously more important to dems than taken care of the elderly ....

& taking a hatchet to Pell grants and student loans, etc. The usual litany of austerities,

Social Security is going broke and Obama and the dems defund it. Obama has rung up more debt than the first 42 presidents COMBINED!

Gosh, why can't we just keep printing money and give everybody everything they want like Greece? (Funny - Obama's debt is now so bad Greece's debt wouldn't make a line item in the US budget ... well ... if they did a budget.)

while contributing zero additional revenues to the Treasury.

How about 20 million plus Americans gladly paying more taxes because they have a job and are not umemployed or underemployed?

How about all the revenue from business taxes due to growth? How about revenue from gas and oil leases?

How about getting out of the worst economy since the Great Depression .... even the co-author of the report stating unemployment would not exceed 8% if the stimulus was passed now states that after $5 trillion of overspending ....unemployment will not drop to 8% after FOUR YEARS under Obama!

AF: if the republicans win, the seniors better get ready to move in with the kids.

And if Obama wins, the new boomerrang kids will be 55 year old baby boomer-rangs ringing nana's door.

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#1.12 - Tue Mar 20, 2012 7:57 PM EDT

Paul Ryan thinks that he is the best thing happen to mankind -of course, Rush Limbaugh thinks that he is wrong-

this snobish SOB irritates people just by opening his mouth. Never mind his stupid, egotistic, self-serving budget that he is preparing with his girlfriend Big Oil-

He needs to be reminded what it is that we think of him: A***E

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#1.13 - Tue Mar 20, 2012 8:43 PM EDT

Same old stuff rehashed again.

The CBO analysis the first time found that in ten years a 65-year-old would be paying 61% out of pocket as opposed to extended baseline in ten years of 27%.

Upcoming CBO will likely find the same...

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#1.14 - Tue Mar 20, 2012 8:57 PM EDT

Paul Ryan's budget gets rid of:

Medicare as it exist now

Medicaid coverage for the elderly and disabled

Healthcare coverage for 30 million Americans

Paul Ryan's budget plan cuts:

food stamps

housing assistance

farm subsidies

federal workers

science programs

education services

prisons

border control

student loans

FEMA

unemployment insurance

IRS

FBI

Paul Ryan's budget provides:

Corporations and the Wealthy (GET)

3 trillion dollars in TAX CUTS

Obama's got my vote again in November

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#1.15 - Tue Mar 20, 2012 9:29 PM EDT

So I guess that expecting the federal government to live within their means is extreme? $2 trillion isn't enough? Why is this unreasonable?

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#1.16 - Tue Mar 20, 2012 10:35 PM EDT

Toyota3

OK so if you look at your financial situation and figure out you spend twice as much as you take in do you cut back to get rid of half of the bills or file bankruptcy? You MUST make a choice because your current financial predicaments is unsustainable.

I'm sure you probably think you can just vote for Obama, get food stamps and welfare but if everyone does that who will be left to finance your unsustainable handouts?

    #1.17 - Wed Mar 21, 2012 12:41 PM EDT
    Reply

    Hang on Feisty! The dems are gonna control everything pretty darn soon. Why? Because you women will decide the gop's fate! OBAMA/BIDEN 2012!

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    Reply#2 - Tue Mar 20, 2012 6:50 PM EDT

    Because you women will decide the gop's fate!

    DfromSpencer

    You sure got that right!

    Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned or probed against her will! ☺

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    #2.1 - Tue Mar 20, 2012 6:55 PM EDT

    I am a 47 year old woman with two daughters and I have had enough. Tonight, I made my first major campaign donation. What these idiots have failed to realize is that women are 51 percent of the vote AND in many homes we control the bank account too!

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    #2.2 - Tue Mar 20, 2012 9:04 PM EDT

    GO Tammy!!!!

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    #2.3 - Tue Mar 20, 2012 9:35 PM EDT

    I am a 47 year old woman with two daughters and I have had enough.

    YAY!

    Nothing like girl power! ☺

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    #2.4 - Wed Mar 21, 2012 9:03 AM EDT

    Brian B Your Post 1.6

    Now to address the real issue... what plan do the democrats have to reduce the deficit and reduce the national debt?

    Actually Brian, The Democrats do have a plan. The Bush Jr. Tax Cuts expire at the end of 2012, which will be fine since the economy should not need more stimulis. Increasing the top line will help the deficit.

    $900 Billion in spending cuts kick in at the end of 2012.

    Increase revenue, cut spending. The plan is in place. Do you have an alternate theory as to how deficits are reduced?

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    #2.5 - Wed Mar 21, 2012 11:08 AM EDT
    Reply

    The seniors will stand strong against the Ryan plan, the 99ers will stand tall against wall street, and women will stand tall against the GOP's war on women...

    The GOP stands strong with the wealthiest 2%...

    Obama/Biden the right stuff ... Obama/Biden 2012

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    Reply#3 - Tue Mar 20, 2012 6:52 PM EDT

    To say the eventual nominee "WILL follow" the GOP budget is saying "This nominee is a puppet for GOP before he is even elected ..... and we want a puppet for president ...... I DON"T THINK SO!!!!

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    #3.1 - Tue Mar 20, 2012 7:19 PM EDT

    What will the seniors be able to stand against when the democrats destroy our economy, bankrupt our country and eliminate our currency? The way democrats spend, there will be nothing left. Complain about the republicans all you want... but when the democrats take over and you are standing there wondering where all your money went because our economy failed... you might want to ask yourself who had the better plan... probably not though... liberals will find a way to blame someone else... they are good at it.

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    #3.2 - Tue Mar 20, 2012 7:26 PM EDT

    The policies of Greece will work this time.....honest.

      #3.3 - Tue Mar 20, 2012 10:37 PM EDT

      Brian B,

      If you look at US economic history since 1945 you will see that virtually every economic downturn or disaster has been caused by GOP presidential policy and occurred during GOP administrations. Of 11 recessions 8 are GOP owned, 3 market crashes GOP, 2 housing bubbles GOP, collapse bailout and death of the S&L industry GOP, Collapse and bailout of the financial industry GOP, middle class contraction GOP, redistribution of wealth GOP and the collapse of American manufacturing. These are only the blatantly obvious ones you can get from any economic timeline even more damaging is the campaign for 30 yrs. to make Americans despise and distrust our own government.

      jkh

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      #3.4 - Wed Mar 21, 2012 12:27 AM EDT
      Reply

      Note to Ryan - give your head a shake!

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      Reply#4 - Tue Mar 20, 2012 6:59 PM EDT

      Nice narrative, too bad it's short on facts.

      Ryan's budget proposal was not what decided that special. Jack Davis, liberal democrat running on a Tea Party ticket split the republican vote. That's what gave the district to a democrat.

      Do you really think people have such short memories?

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      Reply#5 - Tue Mar 20, 2012 7:00 PM EDT

      A liberal democrat T-party candidate? SWEET!!! How would they let that happen? oh that's right we're talking T-Party Intelligence.

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      #5.1 - Tue Mar 20, 2012 7:08 PM EDT

      Bad vetting, obviously.

      Remember Delaware? The "not witch" candidate?

      Anyway, this post is a few hours late. Politico ran this story over an hour ago.

      http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/03/romney-endorses-ryan-budget-118079.html

      Have you seen how Obama does with seniors? Most polls, he gets about 35% approval.

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      #5.2 - Tue Mar 20, 2012 7:11 PM EDT

      Our seniors are so confused...on purpose by the GOP... ...which most of them live pay check to pay check and are very scared. Using political confusing statements are confusing them......I have talked to many who say :I not voting this time...its too confusing...who is telling a lie and who is right? If we dont do it right by explaining the facts to them.... both sides will lose a lot of the senior vote... and I dont blame them! It's a game with people lives involved and the rich really don't care....AMERICA!

      • 2 votes
      #5.3 - Tue Mar 20, 2012 7:25 PM EDT

      Another liberal blaming someone else for their own faults... how typical! As if the democrats don't dominate in obfuscation, spin and never really answering a direct question.

      Politicians don't care. Please get your people straight.

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      #5.4 - Tue Mar 20, 2012 7:30 PM EDT

      Nice try no joe - Your nonfacts are a little skewed. Mr Davis isn't a liberal Democrat running on the Tea Party ticket as it doesn't make sense. He is a lifelong Republican and Davis switched to the Democrats after being kicked out of a fundraiser headlined by Dick Chaney in 2003 when he tried to ask Cheney questions about free trade policies. He also said he would caucus in the House with the Republican and Tea Party caucuses. Try harder next time.

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      #5.5 - Tue Mar 20, 2012 8:50 PM EDT

      Uh, no. These are the facts

      http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/who-is-jack-davis/2011/05/11/AFPOfcyG_blog.html

      So, pardon me if I think someone who ran four times as a democrat is, well, a democrat.

      And from the info in the article, a racist, to boot.

        #5.6 - Wed Mar 21, 2012 7:46 AM EDT

        Thanks no joe for the link. If you read it in its entirety it clearly shows Mr Davis was and is now a Republican with a short stint as a Democrat mainly due to a spat he had with the party. The man is 79 years old and was a dem for 6 years so he must have been a Republican for what, 73 years and I'll even let you wack the first 18 tears off and that would only be 55 years. Plus he ran 3 times as a Dem not 4 and the real tipoff to Mr Davis being a Republican is your claim that he's a racist to boot. That puts him in the right party for sure. Like I said, nice try no joe.

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        #5.7 - Wed Mar 21, 2012 2:11 PM EDT
        Reply

        Looks like ol' Newton learned his lesson from last year and has toed the line with the new budget proposal...

        2011...

        "I am against Obamacare imposing radical change, and I would be against a conservative imposing radical change."

        "I don’t think right-wing social engineering is any more desirable than left-wing social engineering."

        2012...

        "I think what Ryan is doing is courageous. He’s essentially right and the gap between him and Barack Obama is all that you need to know about why you want to beat Obama. I mean Paul Ryan represents a serious adult effort to get back to a balanced budget and save our children and grandchildren from drowning in debt."

        Congratulations, Congressman Ryan. I don't know if he's going to win the presidency or even the party nomination but it looks like you've got Newton squarely in your back pocket.

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        Reply#6 - Tue Mar 20, 2012 8:23 PM EDT

        I thought we were not supposed to call it vouchers now it's vouchers...err coupon errr corruption care.

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        Reply#7 - Tue Mar 20, 2012 8:36 PM EDT

        Paul Ryan's budget gets rid of:

        Medicare as it exist now

        Medicaid coverage for the elderly and disabled

        Healthcare coverage for 30 million Americans

        Paul Ryan's budget plan cuts:

        food stamps

        housing assistance

        farm subsidies

        federal workers

        science programs

        education services

        prisons

        border control

        student loans

        FEMA

        unemployment insurance

        IRS

        FBI

        Paul Ryan's budge provides:

        Corporation and the Wealthy

        3 trillion dollars in TAX CUTS

        Obama's got my vote again in November

        • 4 votes
        Reply#8 - Tue Mar 20, 2012 9:14 PM EDT
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