{"id":7966,"date":"2010-12-09T13:15:39","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T18:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=7966"},"modified":"2010-12-09T13:15:39","modified_gmt":"2010-12-09T18:15:39","slug":"paul-ryan-is-making-sense-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/7966\/paul-ryan-is-making-sense-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Ryan is Making Sense (Again)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid solid recommendations to put Medicare and Medicaid on a sustainable financial path, Obama Debt Commission member and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roadmap.republicans.budget.house.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Roadmap<\/em> author<\/a> Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) staked out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/issues\/56_57\/-201290-1.html?ET=rollcall:e9419:80108870a:&amp;st=email&amp;pos=epa\" target=\"_blank\">very defensible ground for today\u2019s conservative leaders<\/a> to <em>Roll Call<\/em>\u2019s Mort Kondrake:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And the incoming chairman of the House Budget Committee described himself as having been mentored by the late Rep. Jack Kemp (R-N.Y.), believing in \u201ca prosperous opportunity society built atop a solid safety net.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am not a laissez-faire, Hobbsian libertarian,\u201d he told me. \u201cI believe in a circumscribed safety net, one that helps people get back on their feet and is there for people who can\u2019t help themselves. But I believe in a pro-growth, limited-government, free-enterprise society that encourages people to make the most of their lives.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Anyone else for a one-on-one debate between President Barack Obama and Rep. Ryan on healthcare reform next January?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid solid recommendations to put Medicare and Medicaid on a sustainable financial path, Obama Debt Commission member and Roadmap author Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) staked out very defensible ground for today\u2019s conservative leaders to Roll Call\u2019s Mort Kondrake: And the incoming chairman of the House Budget Committee described himself as having been mentored by the [&hellip;]<\/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":[143,70,1097,465,2159,35,802,919],"class_list":["post-7966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-budget","tag-fiscal-conservative","tag-health-care-reform","tag-mort-kondrake","tag-obamacare","tag-paul-ryan","tag-roadmap-for-americas-future"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7966","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=7966"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7969,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7966\/revisions\/7969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}