tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-275931522024-03-13T03:26:45.948-04:00Kudlow's Money Politic$Pro-growth, strong defense, virtuous values, business, and stocksLarry Kudlowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16317907497642787601noreply@blogger.comBlogger2877125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27593152.post-57190416998362090662015-09-28T13:27:00.004-04:002015-09-28T13:27:48.543-04:00Kudlow is still considering running against Connecticut Senator Blumenthal<a href="http://ctmirror.org/2015/09/28/kudlow-denies-report-hes-running-against-blumenthal/">http://ctmirror.org/2015/09/28/kudlow-denies-report-hes-running-against-blumenthal/</a>Larry Kudlowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16317907497642787601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27593152.post-80820571148589532332015-08-03T11:25:00.002-04:002015-08-03T11:25:56.013-04:00A True Gentleman<a href="http://www.fa-mag.com/news/a-true-gentleman-22604.html">A True Gentleman</a>Larry Kudlowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16317907497642787601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27593152.post-26928180403472578862015-05-26T14:42:00.003-04:002015-05-26T14:42:27.822-04:00bloomberg.com: Koch Brothers Plan to Fund 'Several' GOP 2016 Presidential Hopefuls<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-05-24/koch-brothers-plan-to-fund-several-gop-2016-presidential-hopefuls">http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-05-24/koch-brothers-plan-to-fund-several-gop-2016-presidential-hopefuls </a>Larry Kudlowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16317907497642787601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27593152.post-7355314481562012462015-05-04T15:29:00.001-04:002015-05-04T15:29:18.779-04:00National Review Institute's Ideas Summit -- Larry Kudlow interviews Senator Ben Sasse<a href="https://ricochet.com/podcasts/2015-nri-ideas-summit-conversation-with-sen-ben-sasse-and-larry-kudlow/">Larry Kudlow's interview with Senator Ben Sasse</a>Larry Kudlowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16317907497642787601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27593152.post-73115247112561561792015-04-24T10:50:00.003-04:002015-04-24T10:50:52.161-04:00Kudlow & Pawlenty Money and Politics Podcast (April 23, 2015)<a href="https://ricochet.com/podcasts/quid-pro-dough/">Kudlow & Pawlenty Money and Politics Podcast</a>Larry Kudlowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16317907497642787601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27593152.post-91177339845540999292015-04-22T10:56:00.005-04:002015-04-22T10:56:43.951-04:00Kudlow sees change on the way -- San Antonio Express-News<a href="http://www.expressnews.com/business/business_columnists/david_hendricks/article/Kudlow-sees-change-on-the-way-6214951.php">Kudlow sees change on the way</a>Larry Kudlowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16317907497642787601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27593152.post-71174777146098060562015-04-16T12:11:00.001-04:002015-04-16T12:11:54.562-04:00"A New Crop of Candidates Discovers the Father of Supply Side Economics" by Jim Tankersley of The Washington Post<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/02/20/a-new-crop-of-candidates-discovers-the-father-of-supply-side-economics/">"A New Crop of Candidates Discovers the Father of Supply-Side Economics</a>Larry Kudlowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16317907497642787601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27593152.post-79924291077635231942015-04-16T11:38:00.002-04:002015-04-16T12:14:56.789-04:00The Larry Kudlow Radio Show, April 11, 2015<a href="http://www.stationcaster.com/download.php?file=http://cdn.stationcaster.com/stations/wabc/media/mp3/April_11__2015-1428771666.mp3&id=4184263">"The Larry Kudlow Show" April 11, 2015</a><br />
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GUESTS: Senator Ted Cruz, Ann Coulter, Steve Moore, James Pethokoukis, and John McIntyre and more.Larry Kudlowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16317907497642787601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27593152.post-23460537665457449142015-04-16T11:23:00.000-04:002015-04-16T11:23:08.683-04:00Glenn Beck's Interview with Larry Kudlow (February 2015)<iframe frameborder="0" height="224" src="http://www.video.theblaze.com/shared/video/embed/embed.html?content_id=37224873&width=400&height=224&property=theblaze" width="400">Your browser does not support iframes.</iframe>Larry Kudlowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16317907497642787601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27593152.post-68544093163372494002014-11-11T11:42:00.001-05:002014-11-11T11:45:58.309-05:00Prescription For A Stronger Economy: Marriage<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<b><i>Larry recently
spoke at the Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation dinner last week. Nationally syndicated columnist Cal Thomas*
wrote this column about his remarks:<o:p></o:p></i></b></span><br />
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At a
dinner sponsored by the Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation last Thursday (I am
an unpaid national advisory board member), there was a debate about wealth
redistribution. A team of Canadian students who think government should “spread
the wealth around” faced off against a team of American students who think
government has no business doing any such thing.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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The
theme continued when former Sen. Phil Gramm, Texas Republican, debated Chrystia
Freeland, a member of the Canadian Parliament. While all of this was
informative, civil, interesting and at times entertaining, the final speaker,
CNBC commentator Larry Kudlow, may have uttered the most profound thought of
the evening.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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While
Mr. Kudlow takes the traditional conservative position when it comes to
economics, he said what would help individuals as well as the nation the most
is for people to “get married.” He said it loudly, and the super-sophisticated
New Yorkers in the room fell momentarily silent. When the shock wore off, many
heads began to nod. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Mr.
Kudlow’s point was that marriage gives people a reason to work, a home one
hopes is stable, and children for whom two parents feel responsible.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Sociologists
have reached the same conclusion over many years. In her book “One Marriage
Under God: The Campaign To Promote Marriage in America,” sociologist Melanie
Heath writes, “Married people” — for whatever reason — “are happier, healthier,
and better off financially.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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The
point I took from the speakers at the Coolidge dinner was that the real power
to influence a life does not lie in or emanate from Washington, D.C., whichever
party is in power. Instead, it comes from the millions of personal decisions
each person makes for his or her own life.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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How
many politicians today would dare to admonish people who are living together to
get married? Yet for not just economic reasons, doesn’t it seem the wisest
course for most to take when one considers the benefits? Cohabiters may look at
their divorced parents as an excuse not to marry, but that is an excuse, not a
sufficient reason. One might better consider successful marriages, instead of
failed ones, and emulate what made the good ones work.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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At
the Coolidge dinner, the organization’s chairman, Amity Shlaes, passed out
buttons that said “Coolidge in ‘16.” Although the 30th president died in 1933,
his ideas and philosophy of life are being given new life by events like these.
If his ideas worked — and Coolidge’s did because they were born from a Puritan
ethic that founded and sustained America well into the 20th century, making the
1920s roar economically — why not reconsider those ideas, updating them as
necessary and applying them to solve today’s problems, rather than skipping
from one failed policy to another?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Back
to marriage. The Coolidges had an unusual relationship, but it worked for them.
Grace was vivacious and outgoing; her husband quite the opposite. And yet there
was genuine love.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Few
men have ever uttered more noble words about their wives than what Coolidge
said of his: “She has borne with my infirmities, and I have rejoiced in her
graces.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Mr.
Kudlow seemed to be suggesting — and I would agree with him — that you don’t
get that kind of affirmation outside of a committed marital relationship, which
also makes for stronger families, economies and nations.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<em><span style="background-color: blue; color: #eeeeee; font-size: small;">*Cal
Thomas is a nationally syndicated columnist. His latest book is “What Works:
Common Sense Solutions for a Stronger America” (Zondervan, 2014).</span></em></h2>
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Veterans Health Administration should serve as a warning as to what can happen
under the Affordable Care Act, renowned economist and syndicated columnist
Larry Kudlow says.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">This is not simply a management
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"The Steve Malzberg Show" on Newsmax TV.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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government-run socialized medicine with rationing and price controls and the
usual bureaucratic inefficiencies. That's the problem with the VA.''<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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allegedly keeping chronically-ill patients on a secret-waiting list — resulting
in the deaths of at least 40 veterans.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Additionally, there are
allegations of false record-keeping to cover up the scandal. "It is not a
money problem. The money going to the VA has exploded in recent years. In fact,
from 2000 to 2013, budget outlays tripled while the veterans' population being
served has actually declined by four million,'' Kudlow said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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government-run healthcare and [this] should be a lesson to all of us about the
dangers of Obamacare and single-payer insurance and so forth and so on."
Kudlow also called on Republicans to back a "sensible'' immigration reform
bill or risk losses at the polls.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">"Sensible immigration
reform will really be pro-growth. It can really help America and can really
help the Republican Party put a different face on and reach out not just to Latinos,''
Kudlow said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">"This is symbolic,
immigration reform — symbolic reaching out to Asians, to African-Americans, to
young people, to women, and it says the Republican Party can in fact be a big
tent. "Its policies don't have to echo the Democrats, but there's a
reach-out factor here that I think is very, very important.'' Kudlow said that
doesn't mean unbridled citizenship or blanket amnesty.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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about is … the possibility of legal status so long as the immigrants who are
living here illegally pay their back taxes, are checked for any criminal
offense because criminals must be deported … learn English, learn civics, learn
history, learn the constitution," he said.<br />
<br />
"They have to go through a process and I think that's very, very important.
I don't want them put at the front of the line for citizenship. I'm not really
even talking about citizenship right now. I'm talking about legal status.<br />
<br />
"[Sen.] Rand Paul [of Texas] has come out for legal status in a similar
way, so has [Texas] Gov. Rick Perry, so has former [Florida] Gov. Jeb Bush. I
like the direction here.''<br />
<br />
Kudlow said it is also important to attract immigrant "brainiacs" as
well as students and blue-collar workers.<br />
<br />
"We need the high-tech electric engineers, all the Silicon Valley people.
We need the foreign students we're educating. Why should we send them home? Why
not keep them here?" he said.<br />
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"We need the low-end workers. That's what the Farmers Association and the
Retailers Association are telling us. In other words, we need legal
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"We need legal visa increases. If we do that, the more population will
expand and increase economic growth. It's real simple. Population times
productivity equals growth.''<br />
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Kudlow pointed to the low number of immigrants who supported Republican
presidential candidate Mitt Romney in 2012.<br />
<br />
"Twenty-seven percent of Asians voted for Mitt Romney, 27 percent of
Hispanics voted for Mitt Romney. The GOP cannot win with those kinds of
numbers," he said.<br />
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"If the party has a sensible policy and puts its best foot forward with
the kind of principles that I'm encouraging here, it will make an impact.<br />
<br />
"I am a conservative Catholic and all that goes with that, but I am
willing to work in the same big tent as my friends from the Log Cabin Republicans.
I believe that kind of attitude, which is an open inclusionary attitude, is
missing from the GOP and must change.''<br />
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With that, the negative perception of the GOP will change, he believes.<br />
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"Right now, the GOP has a bad image. It’s an image of cranky white men and
women. That image has to change,'' Kudlow said.<br />
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After 25 years of interviews and commentaries on everything from<br />
Obamacare to supplyside economics, Larry Kudlow is retiring from fulltime<br />
work at CNBC Friday — ending his awardwinning "The Kudlow Report"<br />
and becoming a senior contributor to the cable network.<br />
<br />
Kudlow, 66, will contribute to the "Business Day" program on CNBC. The<br />
network announced his retirement from the daily primetime show earlier<br />
this month.<br />
<br />
A columnist and radio program host, Kudlow is a regular guest on "The<br />
Steve Malzberg Show" on Newsmax TV.<br />
<br />
Undergirded by "The Kudlow Creed" — "We believe that free market<br />
capitalism is the best path to prosperity!" — the CNBC show began in<br />
January 2009 and offered a mixture of politics and business. It has featured<br />
interviews with a wide range of politicians, economists, Wall Street titans,<br />
and media personalities.<br />
<br />
The program succeeded "Kudlow & Company," which aired from 2005 until<br />
October 2008. Before that, starting in 2002, the program was called<br />
"Kudlow & Cramer" — with investment guru Jim Cramer as cohost. From<br />
2001 to 2002, the program was called "America Now."<br />
<br />
Over the years, Kudlow has hosted such guests as former President<br />
George W. Bush, former Vice President Dick Cheney, former Secretary of<br />
State Henry Kissinger, and current Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel.<br />
<br />
He also has talked with such business leaders as media mogul Barry Diller<br />
and energy investor T. Boone Pickens.<br />
<br />
For instance, Thursday's program featured interviews with Republican Gov.<br />
Scott Walker of Wisconsin — and he was joined by Cramer to discuss ways<br />
to keep the American economy growing. Cramer now hosts "Mad Money"<br />
on CNBC.<br />
<br />
"Larry, I miss you," Cramer said, extending his hand. "You were the place<br />
for civil discourse, because you are a civil man. We ended every show the<br />
same way — and we do it now.<br />
<br />
"You're the best," Kudlow responded. "You're the best."<br />
<br />
He then turned to camera: "Jim Cramer, my expartner — and I miss him."<br />
<br />
"This is not the end of Larry Kudlow in the public eye, it's just a new<br />
beginning," Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy said. A longtime friend of<br />
Kudlow, Ruddy added, "Larry will continue to carry the torch for<br />
Reaganomics and the free market like no one else as he has for decades."<br />
<br />
Ruddy noted that Kudlow played a key role as an adviser to President Ronald<br />
Reagan in "unleashing the greatest economic boom the world has ever known."<br />
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The program also included tributes from such guests over the years as<br />
NBC News White House correspondent Chuck Todd, Illinois GOP Rep.<br />
Peter Roskam, and wealthmanagement company CEO Jack Bouroudjian.<br />
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Under Reagan, Kudlow served in the Office of Management and Budget.<br />
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Larry Kudlowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16317907497642787601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27593152.post-54738751625468125622014-03-28T09:24:00.000-04:002014-03-28T09:24:05.907-04:00A Man In The Arena (tribute to Larry Kudlow)<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><i>Thank you, Jason Trennert (CIS at Strategas Research Partners) for your beautiful tribute to Larry Kudlow:</i></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">All good things, as they say, must come to an end and tonight, I’m afraid, will mark the final installment of Larry Kudlow’s eponymous show <i>The Kudlow Report</i> on CNBC. I had long been a fan of Larry from his days on <i>The McLaughlin Report</i> when the sum total of political commentary on television was, mercifully now that I think about it, reserved for Sunday morning. (For you youngsters out there, the sum total of market commentary on television was reserved for a half-hour a week on <i>Louis Rukeyeser’s Wall $treet Week </i>and in truth, it’s hard not to feel as if we were the better for it.) I always admired Larry’s unapologetic defense of free markets and, to be frank, his style. He always looked, dressed, and spoke like a Wall Street guy should, I thought. I have considered a great blessing to have become friends with him and for his willingness to support my development as an economist and as a Wall Street professional as well as to shape my thoughts on the way markets and the economy work.</span></span></span><br />
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Perhaps we’ve gotten along so well because he too started his life as a Democrat. For me that changed after spending precisely one semester in Marion Barry’s Washington D.C. For Larry, that seemed to change after he began his career on the open market desk of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and, after a stint on Wall Street, became the associate director for economics and planning in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the first Reagan administration. He really became a star when he rejoined Bear Stearns as its Chief Economist in 1987 and his association with <i>The McLaughlin Group</i> flourished. Eleanor Clift never saw it coming.</span></span></span><br />
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We all stumble, of course, and it’s doubly hard to stumble publicly. Larry’s ability to craft a second career as a journalist and remain a fixture on CNBC for more than 12 years was due, in my view, to his intelligence, his unflagging optimism about this country, and his commitment to his Catholic faith and to his wife Judy. It all started in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 with <i>America Now </i>which he co-hosted with Jim Cramer. That show morphed eventually into <i>The Kudlow Report</i> and has remained a regular stop for those who intersect at the country’s two major power centers – Washington and Wall Street ever since. For those who doubt the power of an individual voice to have an influence, it should be remembered that Larry almost single-handedly gave President Bush the intellectual cover to cut taxes on both dividends and capital gains at a time when it was a politically unpopular. (While there may be questions about priorities, I have yet to hear a good economic rationale for the double taxation of dividends.) Commented <i>The New York Times</i> at the time, “All summer long on his program, which is watched by White House officials (although not President Bush), Mr. Kudlow hammered at the idea of dividend tax cuts. At the same time, conservative economists kept up the pressure on the White House.”[1]</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> <#_ftn1> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> What was most significant about the tax cuts on dividends and capital gains at the time, was not only the fact that the rates were lowered but they were made equal, significantly diminishing the incentive for executives to seek capital gains over dividends. Larry will remain a contributor at CNBC and if someone’s awake over there they’ll have him recreate Lou Rukeyeser’s <i>Wall $treet Week</i> in his own image. In thinking about Larry’s career I am reminded of Teddy Roosevelt’s famous words: <br />
</span></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"> <br />
</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><i>“I</i></span></span><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">t is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”<br />
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</span></span></i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Keep up the good fight my friend.</span></span></span>
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<span style="color: black;">Obamacare’s glitches are here to stay according to House
Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">In an exclusive interview with CNBC’s Larry Kudlow, set to
air Tuesday night on “The Kudlow Report,” Ryan said the problems with the
Affordable Care Act extend far beyond website malfunctions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black;">“It’s more than the website,” Ryan said. “It’s because this
law itself is built from an architecture, a foundation, that’s just not
workable.”</span></b><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Ryan said he sat through several House Committee Oversight
meetings in which the administration failed to answer fundamental questions on
the rollout of the Affordable Care Act.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black;">“The point is they said ‘everything is fine, the law is
going to be OK. We are ready to roll it out. We won’t have any problems.’”</span></b><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">But House Republicans knew better, Ryan said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black;">“People should know that we tried to prevent this from happening
in the first place by fighting a law we did not intend,” </span></b><span style="color: black;">Ryan said, referring to the Republican-led House’s 46
attempts to repeal the law.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black;">“Then we tried giving people relief from the law by
delaying it until 2013. That was rejected and now we are living with this law.”</span></b><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Frustrated with the Senate’s rejection of attempts to
defund and delay the law, Ryan shifted to the GOP’s most plausible tactic to
end the Affordable Care Act: winning elections.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black;">“We owe the American people an alternative,” Ryan said. “We
want to win elections by saying this is not working for you and there are
better ways in keeping with the country’s principles that puts you in charge of
your heath care future.”</span></b><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Ryan dismissed criticism that the Republican Party is at a
“civil war” after failed attempts to delay Obamacare as part of the government
shutdown and debt ceiling negotiations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black;">“We’ve had disagreements with each other on tactics,” he
said. “These aren’t principles. I don’t know a Republican that doesn’t support
comprehensive reforms to replace Obamacare with patient-centered health care.” </span></b><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The Wisconsin Congressman said the GOP will have a chance
to showcase their common principles in budget negotiations set to begin
Wednesday. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">He rejected hopes for a “grand bargain” deal, which he said
would include pro-growth tax reform, a balanced budget and entitlement reform.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black;">“I don’t think we’ll get a grand bargain, and we’re not
talking about getting a grand bargain,” he said. “Because then, one party will
require that the other compromise their core principles, and we won’t get
anything done.”</span></b><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The GOP’s key bargaining chip, Ryan said, is the
sequestration, the automatic spending cuts Democrats are seeking to repeal. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black;">“If we can’t get anything better than the sequester, then
we’ll keep the sequester,” Ryan said. “That’s our base case to begin with.”</span></b><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Ryan insisted increased tax revenue was out of the
question, calling Keynesian stimulus programs “sugar-high economics.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black;">“We’re not in this business to raise taxes,” he said.
“We’ll take the spending cuts we have and work with those.”</span></b><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Instead, he said he was willing to negotiate on the
“smarter” cuts to replace sequestration.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black;">“If we get a down payment on this debt and deficit in
exchange for short-term relief, we’ll take it,” he said. “But it has to be on
net a positive, meaning we will take the spending cuts right now.”</span></b><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Ryan said substituting entitlement reform in place of broad
spending cuts under sequestration would enable long-term growth in the U.S.
economy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black;">“If smart entitlement reforms could replace this crude
across-the-board sequester, it would do a couple things,” Ryan said. “It would
show the world that America is getting ahead of its problems. We’re not just
going to victims of circumstances. We’re not just going to fall into a debt
crisis like Europe, but we’re going to get out of it.”</span></b><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Entitlement should be at the top of the budget agenda, Ryan
said. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black;">“The question is not if we deal with entitlements,” Ryan
said. “The question is if we are going to do it before the debt crisis or after
the debt crisis. We would like to do it before so that we can shape events in
this country instead of having events shape us.”</span></b><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The Congressman said, ultimately, his job is to find common
ground in budget negotiations among Republicans and Democrats.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black;">“I would argue that in this very difficult time that we are
in, wouldn’t it be nice to show that this American divided government can at
least govern?”</span></b><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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