Is Paul Ryan Breaking Up With His Wonk Buddies?
Paul Ryan will get a new job next year. When he does, he’ll also find himself in the middle of an emerging fight within the conservative movement—one that pits hard-core, traditional supply-siders...
View ArticleRepublicans' Battle Plan for Reform Hasn't Changed—Only Its Chance of Winning...
If Mitt Romney had coasted into office on a Republican wave in 2012, I think he and Paul Ryan would've quickly set about trying to implement the social and economic policy platform they ran on, which,...
View ArticlePaul Ryan Is Still Selling His Rejected Agenda, Now With Populist Rhetoric
If you flip through the pages of the Republican National Committee's 2012 election post-mortem, you'll find plenty of familiar homilies to the importance of good messaging, and very few about the...
View ArticlePaul Ryan Genuinely Wants to Help the Poor, But Has No Clue How
Here’s something liberals don’t say very often: Representative Paul Ryan wants to improve the lives of the poor.Here’s something conservatives don’t say very often: The Ryan budget would hurt the...
View ArticleThis Is Paul Ryan's Best Idea Yet
On Thursday, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan surprised liberals with the release of a new antipoverty plan that may include his best idea ever.In contrast to Ryan’s last four budgets, which...
View ArticlePaul Ryan and Ayn Rand Just Got a Divorce
You don't need to love Representative Paul Ryan's new plan to reform anti-poverty programs to admit that it's an improvement over his old plan that entailed using increased suffering as an inducement...
View ArticleWho Is the Real Paul Ryan?
When House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan revealed in November that he planned to release an anti-poverty agenda in 2014, liberals scoffed. “Everything [Ryan]'s ever done—everything—boils down to...
View ArticleThe Tea Party Is Abandoning Paul Ryan
When Mitt Romney chose Representative Paul Ryan as his running mate in the 2012 presidential election, the tea party was ecstatic. "It's a big step toward what the tea party has been trying to...
View ArticleThe Coming Conservative Tax Cut Deficits Will Make Bush's Look Puny
For going on a year now, a group of reform-minded conservatives has been gently coaxing more pious coreligionists into supporting a tax reform plan that would violate the first commandment of...
View ArticlePaul Ryan May Have Found a Trick to Make His Tax Plan Add Up
Paul Ryan, the chair of the House Budget Committee, is set to make a big move next year. No, I’m not talking about a presidential run, although that’s possible. Instead, he’s expected to take over the...
View ArticleMitt Romney Blames His "47 Percent" Comment on a Donor. Paul Ryan Blames ......
In the two years since he told an audience of millionaires in Florida that 47 percent of the Americans will always vote for Democrats because they’re moochers “who pay no income tax” and don’t take...
View ArticleDon't Get Your Hopes Up for Corporate Tax Reform
Few pundits expect the 114th Congress to be very productive. If it avoids another government shutdown and debt ceiling fight, that would probably—and sadly—qualify as a success. But there's some hope...
View ArticleHere's Why Conservatives Will Never Give Up Their War on Obamacare
Whenever Obamacare is back in the news, partisan incomprehension always follows, and between the commencement of this year’s open enrollment period, the new Supreme Court challenge to the Affordable...
View ArticlePaul Ryan Still Thinks Obamacare "Will Collapse Under Its Own Weight." This...
Representative Paul Ryan published a short piece in USA Today on Wednesday arguing that Obamacare "will collapse under its own weight."“You can't fix a f
View ArticleRepublicans Know Their Obamacare Case Is Bogus. Here's the Proof.
On Thursday, the government filed its brief to the Supreme Court in the case that will determine whether Obamacare subsidies disappear in three dozen states. Its argument is comprehensive, but
View ArticleWill Republicans Ever Seriously Consider Corporate Tax Reform? Tuesday Could...
On Tuesday morning, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew will appear before the House Ways and Means Committee to discuss President Barack Obama’s budget for the 2016 fiscal year. One policy sure to be a major...
View ArticleAnother Day, Another House Bill That Proves Republicans Don't Care About the...
When President Barack Obama unveiled his budget a few weeks ago, Republicans dismissed it immediately as unserious. “With even all of these tax increases, you don’t even balance the budget, not even in...
View ArticleRepublicans Can Kiss Medicare Privatization Goodbye
For the last four years Republicans have used their small power perch in the House of Representatives to prime members for the day when they’d control the whole government. During each of those years,...
View ArticleCongress Shouldn't Bother Trying to Balance the Budget
In recent years, it has become all but a requirement for Republicans to propose balancing the budget within the next decade. The House GOP budget for the 2016 fiscal year, which was released Tuesday,...
View ArticleMarco Rubio Is the Most Disingenuous Republican Running for President
Most of the Republican Party’s primary candidates have internalized something that was blindingly obvious to everyone who watched the 2012 elections unfold. So long as traditional turnout patterns...
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