Paul Ryan Roadmap

Why, might you ask, is it so egregious to use highway signs to indicate America's future? Well, because the interstate highway system in this country is falling apart.

The House Republican's 2012 budget is out. It would cut $6 trillion. It would privatize Medicare. And even though I'm a liberal, I kind of like it. H...

Senate Republicans are lining up behind what they call a Consensus Balanced Budget Amendment. The proposal is deeply flawed.

Paul Ryan's plan for the economy uses the typical conservative approach to budgeting. Cut services to those in need after having passed tax cuts for people who aren't in need.

Not until recently, though, was Ryan's "Roadmap" paid much heed, but new rules passed at the beginning of the 112th Congress substantially empowered him as role as House Budget Committee Chairman.

I served with Rep. Ryan on the 18 member Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, and learned firsthand from the personally congenial Ryan just how dark his vision of America's future is for all but the super-rich.

Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the incoming chairman of the House Budget Committee, has generally been held out to be some genius solutioneer-in-waiting. And it seems to hardly matter a whit to anyone that his plans to cut taxes and rein in spending would raise taxes on most Americans and blow out the budget deficit. Ryan is handsome and personable and can speak in complete sentences, and these facts alone pretty much put him in the upper percentile of talent in just about any House of Representatives. But we're still waiting for him to sort of deliver on the hype.

WASHINGTON -- Signaling how difficult it will be for the Republican Party to live up to its campaign promises of cutting spending while preserving the...

Republicans aren't resurrecting Bush's Social Security privatization plan verbatim; instead, they've dressed up his policies in new clothing, hoping the American people simply won't notice.

Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-Wis.) appears to be publicly backing away from his controversial budget roadmap. In a conference call with reporters on Monday, th...

UPDATED: Additional GOP candidates supporting Ryan's plan have been included below. -- While many House Republicans in leadership positions have...

The next time someone asks you about the difference between the parties, just remind them that when Social Security turned 75, Democrats celebrated while Tea Party Republicans grabbed the ax.

Most of the Republican Party leadership agrees with Tea Party policies. The problem is that these candidates don't have enough sense to know they're not supposed to talk about those policies before they're elected.