Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), chair of the House Budget Committee, will give the Republican response to the State of the Union address tonight.  The Congressman's colleagues in both parties, according to The Hill, describe him as "knowledgeable, charismatic, friendly and good-looking." Depending on how he does tonight, Ryan's political stock could set new highs.Rep. Ryan, currently serving his seventh term, has put forth a detailed plan to tackle the federal deficit and to salvage Social Security and Medicare, a proposal that liberals are doing their best to discredit via a disinformation campaign.The more I learn about Rep. Ryan, the more apparent it becomes why he is the Democrats' new whipping boy: he's a bright, formidable foe and a strident critic of crony capitalism, which, as Timothy Carney wrote, is the "unhealthy collusion of Big Business and Big Government that has always been the essence of Obamanomics." According to Carney, author of Obamanomics, this...(Read Full Post)