Posted on 08/18/2014 9:44:10 PM PDT by Olog-hai
As Congress hurtled toward a government shutdown in the fall of 2013, Rep. Paul Ryan looked around at fellow Republicans who were agitating to shutter national parks, federal agencies and Head Start programs.
This cant be the full measure of our party and our movement, Ryan writes of that moment in his new book, released Tuesday. If it is, were dead and the country is lost.
Such moments of raw frustration pepper Ryans The Way Forward: Renewing the American Idea, a book as much about his front-row seat as Republicans favorite budget wonk as it is about his political future. [ ]
The book also takes on the tea party-fueled wing of his party [
] Ryan singles out the government shutdown in the fall of 2013. Led by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, tea partyers refused to continue funding the government unless the president agreed to repeal his signature health care lawa proposition that was never going to happen. As a result the government shuttered for 16 days and the Republican brand took a massive hit in voters eyes.
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Especially among veterans. /s
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