The Fork In The Road

There is a fork in the road.

Which path do you want to be on?

Compare the Paul Ryan budget path to the Obama budget path in this chart that was in The Wall Street Journal.

For anyone who believes that it does not make any difference who we send to Washington, think again.

Paul Ryan has become the most consequential member of Congress in decades.  He has led when most others are laggards. He has put in the hard work when others have just hung around in the halls of Congress.  He has shown guts when too many just get along to go along.

Here is what Time magazine said about Ryan when they named him as a runner-up as its 2011 Person of the Year.

Here's a curious fact: in a year of political gridlock, when Congress could get nothing done — not even pass a budget — the most influential American politician was House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan. Through a combination of hard work, good timing and possibly suicidal guts, the Wisconsin Republican managed to harness his party to a dramatic plan for dealing with America's rapidly rising public debt. He brought an ugly issue out of the foggy realm of think tanks and blue-ribbon panels and dropped it into the middle of the national debate in time to define the next presidential election. If 2012 turns out to be a clear choice between very different answers to a genuinely important question — instead of the usual vague contest between competing slogans and haircuts — give the credit to Ryan.

Time wrote about the possibility of a clear choice in 2012.  Paul Ryan is providing it.

I have written previously about Ryan in The Punter And The Quarterback.  He is a quarterback.  Unfortunately, we have a punter in The White House.