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The conservative leadership in the Congress does not accept that cutting defense is the right path restoring fiscal responsibility. The Republican candidate for president has already come out in favor of not cutting defense. Regardless of who wins in Washington in November, conservatives are unlikely to abandon their rediscovered commitment to defense as long as they also retain their commitment to low taxes and entitlement reform.
i think perhaps you re right. he certainly had academic patter down a lot better than a lot of them did. to me, and i grew up in massachusetts, paul ryan is the biggest fake i ve ever seen in politics. i mean, nobody s close. if he s not doing this, you know, phony wonk thing, you know, where he s he s putting together his budgets with magic asterisks, he s going down the old jack kemp fwral how he cares about poor folks. paul ryan cares about one thing and only one thing shoving as much wealth up to the very, very top of the food chain and making sure it doesn t trickle back down again. that s the summation of paul ryan s legacy. that s a much clearer through line than deficits and debt i think. look at what he s done. although there is something that is interesting in his career, ruth, which is the ryan budget. i think that s the place where in some ways he got put in
know, phony wonk thing, you know, where he s he s putting together his budgets with magic asterisks, he s going down the old jack kemp trail about how he cares about poor folks. paul ryan cares about one thing and only one thing shoving as much wealth up to the very, very top of the food chain and making sure it doesn t trickle back down again. that s the summation of paul ryan s legacy. that s a much clearer through line than deficits and debt i think. of you said look at what he s done. although there is something that is interesting in his career, ruth, which is the ryan budget. i think that s the place where in some ways he got put in charge and he was too honest about his vision. in some ways it was a high point for honesty. in 2010, 2011, 2012, yeah, we want to cut we want to voucherize medicare. that was one of the big ideas. we want to cut a lot of
i think trump was right. every time ryan would present one of these budgets, everybody else in the republican caucus would hide behind the drapes rather than attach themselves to it because they knew what political poison it was. that s exactly right. you saw it as two moments. the bush social security privatization fight and the ryan budget where there s an uncommon degree of it and in both cases you saw massive political blow back. ruth, what you get is a lot of bait and switch which is basically what we got with the tax bill. yeah. i think the other thing that s important to note is remember trump came to wisconsin, held a huge rally in janesville, wisconsin, where paul ryan lives and had the crowd booing at paul ryan. that s right. the export of jobs, the collapse of manufacturing and this, you know, focusing on the so-called job creators while letting the jobs go over seas. so that was a very important moment. i think the other thing about paul ryan as much as he has s