Paul Ryan

Budget Battles

  • Obama, on Schmooze Offensive, Plans 4 Visits to Hill

    By Roberta Rampton, Reuters

    President Barack Obama rarely makes the short trip to Capitol Hill from the White House, but next week his motorcade will be tying up traffic on Pennsylvania Avenue as he tries to convince Congress...

  • GOP Austerity Budget Plans Risk a 2014 Defeat

    By Josh Boak and Eric Pianin, The Fiscal Times

    President Obama has pledged to help the Democrats win back control of the House in 2014, but it might just be the GOP promise to balance the budget in ten years that hands them a victory. The...

  • Only Ryan Takes on the 800 Lb. Gorilla--Medicare

    By Edward Morrissey

    Most of the budgetary focus of the past month has settled on the sequester that hit on March 1, and the scare stories spun by the president and his fellow Democrats over what amounts to a temporary...

  • Obama Brings Down the House on Gun Control

    By Josh Boak, The Fiscal Times

    President Obama insisted last night that the state of the union is getting stronger, even as his words hinted that so much of America—the pathway to the middle class, the federal budget, and...

  • Cantor, Ryan, Rubio, Rush: Who Speaks for the GOP?

    By Josh Boak and Eric Pianin, The Fiscal Times

    There are plenty of voices speaking for Republicans, so many of them that it’s unleashed a host of contradictions. The party is trying to blaze a fresh identity after President Obama hammered them in...