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Great interview with Paul Ryan

By: ehud (Diary)  |  March 23rd, 2010 at 11:11 AM  | 

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Paul Ryan interview

excerpts:

This whole debate has been a proxy fight about what kind of country America will be — whether we’ll become a cradle-to-grave welfare state or stay a free-market democracy. The Democrats who are being told that the worse is over should know that the battle has not even begun. It’s up to us to now bring the case to the American people — a real moral, philosophical, and economic case — asking about our values, our founding principles, and if we really want to move toward a Western European–style system.”

“What’s really happening here is the president is saying to the American people that you’re stuck in your current station in life, you’re frozen, and the government is here to help you cope with it. But that’s not who we are. We are a dynamic society where people have the will and incentive to make the most of their lives, to reach their potential. With this bill, that whole mindset, the American idea is upended.”

As we work to repeal, we must recognize that we’re fighting a different and distorted progressivism. They want to hook people up to entitlements and delegate more power to unelected bureaucrats and technocrats to micromanage the economy — a government full of Peter Orzags. Yet their fatal conceit is also a rational gamble to establish a new culture of dependency. We need to become the party of liberty and freedom,” Ryan argues. “We’re not doing enough. We can do better, and we will — because we have no choice. If we’re going to offer the country a completely different vision, we can’t be Democratic-lite or resign ourselves to be slightly more efficient managers and tax-collectors for the welfare state. We have to break with that and give people a clear and distinct difference.”

Adversity often creates opportunities for great leaders to emerge. Throughout the past year, the best critic of the social democrats, and the best defender of conservatism has been this man. And if we’re going to fire Obama, repeal Obamacare, and tackle our fiscal problems we are going to need some real, articulate, conservative leaders that can persuade America to support a conservative agenda. Nominating a mediocre candidate in 2012 is not an option. I’m starting to think Paul Ryan may be our best player. And would any part of the republican coalition have a problem with him?

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    He is smart, and he has always been prepared when he challenged Obama at the GOP Summit, on Wallace’s Sunday morning opposite Debra Wasserman Schultz, and with his “impassioned” speech before Congress on Sunday night. He doesn’t back down, and whimper away because he is part of the minority party. He is showing himself to be an articluate leader, and, is willing to step over the R elders in Washington to say what needs to be said. He actually has plans, which of course the Progressives would not even look at or consider. He knows everyone in the country is going to have to suffer in the shorter term in reforming the entitlements. The Progressives use those entitlements as a drug to hook everyone on government dependency. I don’t know what the economic situation will be in 2012, but, it can’t possibly be good with the drunken spending sprees the current admin. is going on, with no end in sight. I hope that by 2012, someone with Ryan’s economic policies and expertise still have a chance at success. We may be Greece by then. I applaud Ryan for sounding the alarms now, while the McConnell’s and McCain’s and Graham’s sit back waiting for what they think will be their turn. The worms will still be there in 2010 and 2012, but hopefully they will be sitting in nose bleed heaven. The Ryan’s et al will be running to put out the fires that not only the Progressives have started, but the Progressive Republicans as well.