Obama invites Paul Ryan to lunch today

President Obama has invited GOP vice presidential candidate and House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan to lunch today, a senior administration official confirmed.

• At GOP outreach dinner, Obama picks up the tab
• Obama's schmoozing the GOP again

As with Mr. Obama's recent flurry of phone calls and dinner Wednesday with Republican senators, the luncheon topic with Ryan is pursuit of a so-called grand bargain on deficit reduction - one that would include tax and entitlement reform.

Ryan, R-Wisc., is drafting the House GOP budget resolution and is a leading party voice on tackling the rising costs of Medicare and Medicaid - though Obama has harshly criticized Ryan's idea of creating a voucher-based alternative to Medicare.

Ryan will be joined at the luncheon at the White House by Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., the ranking Democrat on the Budget Committee.

Mr. Obama invited Ryan to lunch during a phone call earlier this week.

[PegasusWing]

Talking to Paul Ryan is like talking to a brick wall. It is a waste of Obama's time. Republicans are sore losers. They will vote for their own pocketbooks.

[vernique3]

Did security check lyin ryan for silverware after the dinner?

[hypnotoad72]

Yay.

The one-party system at work yet again.

How long does the chess game get played out? Or the long game? Who are the pawns? Is Ryan one of them?

But people say the President loves to spend... so Obama is talking to all the right people:

http://www.alan.com/2011/04/21/house-republican-budget-plan-adds-6-trillion-to-debt/

[spiris333]

It's obvious that Obama needs some pointers on being fiscally responsible, and who better to teach him than Paul Ryan. It will be difficult to overcome Obama's ingrained liberal mantra of tax and spend and the lack of common sense. Perhaps Rep. Paul can help Obama the incompetent get started on an actual budget, that would be different.

[hypnotoad72]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2012/05/24/who-is-the-smallest-government-spender-since-eisenhower-would-you-believe-its-barack-obama/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/obamas-and-bushs-effect-on-the-deficit-in-one-graph/2011/07/25/gIQAELOrYI_blog.html

And keep in mind that the interest on existing debt grows as well and makes things worse. That means you must also look at previous presidents and congress... so let's start with this:

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/04/14/158424/republican-leaders-debt-limit-hypocrisy/

19 times they raised the debt ceiling, while they continued their "spend, tax cut, give handouts to corporations that offshored jobs which in turn means the US has less revenue it can collect" policies.


http://www.alan.com/2011/04/21/house-republican-budget-plan-adds-6-trillion-to-debt/


You're welcome.

[sjc_1]

Spiris333,

Would that be like the $1.42 trillion dollar deficit budget Bush wanted in 2008-9 that Republicans voted for?

[knsn_for_cmn_sense]

MEH.. Ryan is the biggest lib out there. He never met a credit card war or unpaid for tax cut he didnt just love. Took the budget surpluses of the late 90's early 00's and turned them into huge deficits.

Terrible Bushpublican. and one of the reasons we are where we are.

It seems funny that when Obama was elected the suddenly "found" fiscal conservatism.

[85fr15]

Any such responsibility lies as much with the POTUS...maybe you can peruse a few other ideas on how the sequester came about. Authoring it's components does not mean that it's intent wasn't agreed upon by others....President Obama actually looked favorably on the idea.

[Shibbol]

For entrees we will be serving Sequester Salad.