“Paul Ryan” on The Daily Caller

Day by day, the Democratic strategy becomes more apparent: Wearied by the post-9/11 decade of war, American voters will favor social spending over national defense in the election of 2012, overwhelmingly choosing butter over guns. According to the America Enterprise Institute’s analysis of the 2012 national security budget, this year defense spending will drop to 2.5% of GNP ($531B) while entitlement spending (Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security) will exceed $2 trillion. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Turning their budget knife to domestic programs to protect the Pentagon, House Republicans on Thursday approved legislation cutting food stamps, benefits for federal workers and social services programs like day care for children and Meals on Wheels for the elderly. (more)

Many conservatives are outraged that the U.S. Senate hasn’t passed a budget resolution since early 2009. Yet in a way, even this eye-popping fact understates how badly federal budgeting efforts have broken down in recent years. (more)

Wisconsin Republican Rep. Paul Ryan defended the Republican budget from progressive Catholic criticisms in a Thursday morning speech at Georgetown University. (more)

Wisconsin Republican Rep. Paul Ryan, the chairman of the House Budget Committee, said that President Barack Obama is creating a “government-centered society” that will lead to the “decline” of America unless the federal government changes its current fiscal policy. (more)

Wisconsin Republican Rep. Paul Ryan said Monday that if President Barack Obama is re-elected, his economic plan will look like the “cash for clunkers” program and he will raise taxes on successful small businesses. Ryan made his comments as part of a Mitt Romney town hall event in Northern Milwaukee, just a day before the primary in Wisconsin. (more)

When House Budget chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) released his tax reform plan recently, liberals pounced on it as an unfair giveaway to the rich. In The Washington Post, E.J. Dionne claimed that Ryan’s tax plan would increase the deficit and “expand benefits for the wealthy,” while Dana Milbank said that the plan would “disproportionately help the rich.” A New York Times editorial said that under the Ryan plan, “the rich pay less in taxes than the unfairly low rates they pay now.” (more)

On Friday morning’s “Fox & Friends,” Wisconsin Republican Rep. Paul Ryan, as expected, officially endorsed former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Paul Ryan, the powerful chairman of the House Budget Committee, is endorsing Mitt Romney for the Republican presidential nomination. (more)

In response to U.S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli describing fines imposed under President Obama’s health care law as a “tax,” Wisconsin Republican Rep. Paul Ryan pointed out that Obama’s own budget director does not agree. (more)

On Sunday’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday,” host Chris Wallace asked Wisconsin Republican Rep. Paul Ryan whether he would be open to the prospect of accepting the Republican vice-presidential nomination. (more)

Paul Ryan’s GOP House budget plan offers too little too late. (more)

Among the most hypocritical aspects of certain purist Democrats who call themselves liberals is their willingness to attack any Democrat who veers even slightly from liberal orthodoxy. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Mixing deep cuts to safety-net programs for the poor with politically risky cost curbs for Medicare, Republicans controlling the House unveiled an election-year budget blueprint Tuesday that paints clear campaign differences with President Barack Obama. (more)

House Republicans are reportedly going to release their new budget next week. The big question is whether the Republican budget will be a balanced budget. For all the talk about their newfound fiscal responsibility, Washington Republicans have yet to introduce a single budget that meets the simple test of balancing over 10 years. That doesn’t seem like too much to ask. (more)

It’s an election year, so voters should prepare for endless speeches about the seemingly endless river of red ink flowing from Washington. While talk of reining in out-of-control spending is well past due, one cannot help but roll their eyes and hold on to their wallets when big-spending politicians talk about the budget. (more)

Rep. Paul Ryan, the House Budget Committee chairman, is now at the center of one of the biggest questions for the nation — will we move toward serious solutions to our economic problems or will Washington cower and play politics as usual? (more)

Gas prices are high even for the chair of the House budget committee, apparently. (more)

President Obama put forward his FY 2013 budget yesterday. Meanwhile, there was rioting in Greece. If you think these events are unrelated, there’s a bridge I’d like to sell you. (more)

While much attention has been turned to Newt Gingrich’s catastrophically mistaken attack on Mitt Romney’s work at Bain Capital, a potentially much more significant development occurred in the New Hampshire debate Saturday night. For the first time, Mitt Romney embraced a bold tax reform plan. (more)