Pawlenty drops out of race

Source: USA Today

Updated at 1:26 p.m. ET

A new report suggests House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., is "strongly considering" running for president next year.

The Weekly Standard, citing an unnamed Wisconsin Republican, reports that Ryan is "open" to running because "he is determined to have the 2012 election be about big things." Another unnamed source close to Ryan says in the conservative magazine's blog that the congressman is "coming around."

"While grateful for the continued support and encouragement, Congressman Ryan has not changed his mind," Ryan spokesman Kevin Seifert said in an e-mail to USA TODAY.

Ryan is widely respected in the GOP and is architect of a budget plan that would overhaul Medicare and cut federal spending $6.2 trillion over 10 years. The House passed the Ryan budget in April, but it died in the Democratic-controlled Senate.
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Starman just choked on his own vomit.

 

I would like to see that too, though that has not been his M.O. as President.

 

I don't think there are too many people left who still think Obama is "brilliant"

I think even some of his biggest supporters have been disappointed.

I didn't vote for the guy, but I'm very surprised at how ineffective he's been.

 

He says a movement might spring up, "if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people."

He doesn't say he would endorse it. In fact, he said, "There's absolutely no reason to dissolve it."

 

I don't see how you can read that and not see a passive-aggressive threat. Much like Sharon Angle's "people" "might" have to use "Second Amendment solutions."

I mean, she's not saying she endorses it, but, hey ...

 

So Rick Perry is, at best, a concern troll. Geez, nice country you have here. Be a shame if something happened to it.

It still doesn't speak well of him.

 

When you say "But ..." you pretty much negate whatever you said before but. So "There's absolutely no reason to dissolve it. But ..." means he didn't really mean the first part.

Then again, I suppose "Second Amendment solutions" didn't really mean anything either.

 

"If this guy prints more money between now and the election, I dunno what y’all would do to him in Iowa but we would treat him pretty ugly down in Texas. Printing more money to play politics at this particular time in American history is almost treasonous in my opinion.”

First of all, I have attended a lecture in which staunch fiscal conservatives (academics, but still) said that Bernanke basically saved the economy.

Second of all, even if he was terrible at his job ... Rick Perry just joked, essentially, about executing the Federal Reserve chair. Joked about it. Rick Perry, the person who put an innocent man to death, then killed the follow-up investigation.

He's done. Karl Rove calls him unelectable, and he's right. Perry is the Palin or Howard Dean of the summer of 2011. Flavor of the moment for about 15 minutes. Then exits stage left for the grown-ups.

 

This is one time where television really fails to capture the true excitement of a large squirrel predicting the weather.

 

Give me a break.

The guy basically said he wouldn't get a warm reception.

He said it was "almost" treasonous. There is no penalty for "almost" treason.

It's also similar to what was said by Alexi Giannoulias about Mark Kirk during the recent Illinois Senate campaign.

Giannoulias didn't say "almost", but he did call it "economic" treason. Maybe that's the difference.

 

I was in the Virgin Islands once. I met a girl. We ate lobster and drank pina coladas. At sunset we made love like sea otters. *That* was a pretty good day. Why couldn't I get that day over and over and over.