Watched "Fox News Sunday" to see Paul Ryan talking about his long-term budget. An added bonus was seeing Marco Rubio, senator from Florida.
I love these two guys. They make we want to live longer, knowing that they'll keep America free and a good place for human beings.
Had to laugh a little at moderator Chris Wallace. Paul Ryan told him his proposed budget would cut more than $4 TRILLION in federal spending over 10 years, because it includes a restructuring of Medicare/Medicaid and probably of Social Security, though they didn't talk about that. Anyway, Chris Wallace looked genuinely surprised. Nicely surprised. And I expected Paul Ryan, with his unquenchable optimism, to say something like, "Cool, huh?" Paul Ryan, even while he was speaking about budget caps, kept giving Chris Wallace this reassuring little smile, like, "Honestly. It's all true."
But my favorite part was when Chris Wallace asked if the dems were going to "demagog" the issue and try to use it against the Republicans in next year's election, Paul Ryan said he was sure they would. However, he doesn't care, because he's doing what he believes will work to save the nation. He said it's not a choice between going on as we are or changing -- because the USA cannot go on as it is. That simple.
Then came Marco Rubio, who's cut from similar cloth as Paul Ryan. Marco Rubio already looks like he could be president. He has that gravitas. And he's not going to support increasing the spending limit unless he can get big budget cuts from the dems. He's also not too crazy about the idea of supporting Libyan rebels until we know who they are and what their plans are.
Marco Rubio also has a really great smile and no plans to run in 2012. Thank heavens, because he -- like Paul Ryan -- could use a little more experience before going for the something like the presidency. And they are not in it for the power and glory. They're trying to make a real difference, trying to make the world a better place. Honestly.
In fact, both of these guys are so good-natured, so straightforward and self-assured, so REASONABLE.... I begin to see light at the end of this dark tunnel of "social justice" and "redistribution of wealth."
See, I'm not hard to please. Give me two good-looking guys who have some common sense and a commitment to human freedom and happiness. Is that too much to ask?
And compare and contrast these guys to people like Chucklehead Schumer and Nero Reed.
Good grief, do we have to?
I mean, Chucklehead and Nero are so feebly adamant about seeing the USA sink into a mire of "we were only trying to help," suffocating debt, and what Monroe, I believe, would call "foreign intrigues and entanglements." Chucklehead and Nero have both been w-a-a-a-y too long in Washington. They've lost any sense of perspective, any linkage to the real world. After all, it's not their money they're spending. It's no skin off their butts.All they care about, apparently, are the privileges that go with office. All they have to do is make a dozen more promises to a few more "special interest groups" to buy a few more votes. They don't care what they do to us or to the nation, as long as they get to strut around and make speeches. They're short-sighted blockheads with no sense of principle, no ethics.They don't care about the USA, except as a bully pulpit for their little (little??) hobbyhorses.
But, anyway, now with Paul Ryan and Marco Rubio -- among others, but these two stand out -- I'm beginning to believe that America might have a future after all.
Maybe I'll quit smoking so I can live to see it.
Save the Republic.
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