Obsessions Turn People Off.

I Don't Think Republicans Will Be Fooled Into Taking This Necessary Spending And Using It To Oppose Pro-growth Tax Cuts, Using This Tragedy And Those Deaths For His Own Political Desires.

The Question Is: How Do We Reduce Spending From 25% Of Gdp, Which Is Where Obama Put Us? The Focus Is On Total Government Spending. Can We Bring It Down, In A Reasonable And Politically Acceptable Way? That's What The Paul Ryan Plan Does. It Puts Us On A Gradual Reform Path To Reducing The Size Of Government.

One Of The Reasons Some Of The Advocates Of Ever Larger Government And More Government Intrusiveness Get Nervous About Discussions Of The Actual Cost Of Government Is That They Fear If The People Had A Discussion About What Government Costs, The True Cost Of Taxes, That They Might Not Want As Much Government As They Are Presently Getting.

Look, The Center Right Coalition In American Politics Today Is Best Understood As A Coalition Of Groups And Individuals That On The Issue That Brings Them To Politics What They Want From The Government Is To Be Left Alone.

My Goal Is To Cut Government In Half In Twenty-five Years, To Get It Down To The Size Where We Can Drown It In The Bathtub.