Ryan for OMB Director?

Larry Kudlow thinks...maybe.

A senior White House source suggested to me that the Bush administration may be looking at supply-side Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI) to replace Josh Bolten as OMB Director.

Ryan, a former staff member for Sen. Bob Kasten and House member Jack Kemp is a brilliant, young congressman who sits on the House Ways and Means Committee. He has been involved in every worthwhile pro-growth fiscal initiative in recent years, including flat-tax reform, budget spending limits, Social Security personal accounts, free trade and other items.

Should he be appointed OMB director, it would be a tremendous pro-growth, tough-on-spending, tax-cutting signal to Congress, the rest of Washington and Wall Street.

It would also help the president recapture some of his eroding conservative base.

Ryan at OMB would be a grand slam home run.

That's a juicy rumor, but for Ryan it would mean the end of a Congressional career that looks like it's just beginning to bloom. A little patience might do him - and fiscal conservatism - better.

Anyway, I've got another job in mind for him: Budget Committee Chair.