There are few things more annoying than trying to compete against someone who won\u2019t play the game.<\/p>\n
In today\u2019s Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a>, House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) expresses the frustration of many conservatives who want a real debate about the purposes of government and our ability as a nation to fund them.\u00a0 Ryan rightly chides President Obama for failing to engage in specifics about how to focus policymakers\u2019 attention on the debt, not just its ceiling.<\/p>\n It is mystifying to me that the president continues to shut out Ryan\u2019s \u201cPath to Prosperity\u201d proposal as a middle ground between bankrupting Medicare and Medicaid and eliminating them altogether.<\/p>\n One would think The One could see a Clintonian moment when presented. \u00a0But rather than see Ryan\u2019s willingness to preserve the social safety net for what it is \u2013 a path to a long-term bipartisan solution \u2013 the president can\u2019t see past his own partisan nose.<\/p>\n Yet instead of laying out his own vision, President Obama continues to offer speeches instead of specifics.\u00a0 Lots of us want a debate about the ends of government, and how we structure our economy to pay for it.\u00a0 If the leader of the Democratic Party won\u2019t engage in a serious debate about it, maybe the Democrats should get someone who will<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There are few things more annoying than trying to compete against someone who won\u2019t play the game. In today\u2019s Wall Street Journal, House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) expresses the frustration of many conservatives who want a real debate about the purposes of government and our ability as a nation to fund them.\u00a0 Ryan rightly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,70,81,646,2136,232,235,802],"class_list":["post-10723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-budget","tag-debt","tag-democratic-party","tag-entitlement","tag-medicaid","tag-medicare","tag-paul-ryan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10723"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10731,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10723\/revisions\/10731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}