Krauthammer: With Paul Ryan Leading House, GOP Future ‘Extremely Bright’

BAIER: "So, Paul Ryan is a protege of Jack Kemp, the late Jack Kemp. He believes that solving poverty issues, helping the poor, comes through conservative principles. He is going to try to put that into his speakership. But pushing tax reform as speaker, different than chairman of the House Ways and Means committee, and can he get the big things done?" 
KRAUTHAMMER: "Well, I'm not sure he can get them passed with Obama in the White House. But I think his job is not to do that. His job is to shape the legislation, to shape the party to support it, and present the tax reform that would be essentially owned by the Republicans, the regulatory reform, and the entitlement reform. This is a guy who knows his stuff. Does he have the skills of a speaker? I think he does. He could be the most talented politician in the House, and I think the most important thing that happened today, when he essentially said 'We are going to abolish the past, we are not going to look at it, it's over and we're not going to examine it.' The generational change. I mean it's striking, the youngest speaker in 150 years. Look at the stage last night for the Republicans trying to be president. A very young field relatively speaking. Imagine one of them in the White House and Ryan in the House, the future of the G.O.P., which has been -- its obituary has been written 10 times in the last six months -- I think actually could be extremely bright."