Posted on 06/26/2013 5:00:34 PM PDT by EXCH54FE
Paul Ryan, former GOP Vice Presidential nominee and author of the landmark "Path to Prosperity" GOP budget proposal, has been working behind the scenes to try to persuade both GOP leadership in the House of Representatives and members of the conservative rank-and-file to take up the Senate comprehensive immigration proposal that's on the cusp of a final vote.
With Senate passage of a sweeping immigration bill imminent, Ryan has been meeting with House conservatives to persuade them that reform of the immigration system, including a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants, is an economic necessity and critical to fixing the nation's fiscal problems.
"I would bet you a nickel that he has had more face time with each member than anyone else in the caucus," said [Grover] Norquist, an influential conservative who also believes immigration reform is vital to the economy.
Ryan's advocacy is clashing with GOP Speaker John Boehner, who said today that "we'll do our own bill." It's unlikely that Ryan's advocacy would overtake Speaker Boehner's desire to do a completely separate House bill, or do take up different immigration provisions on a piecemeal basis. But Ryan's advocacy continues to be notable in the face of a conservative opposition that continues to line up against the Senate's approach - especially considering his stature in the conservative movement.
The Senate proposal will likely pass on Thursday or Friday this week, at which point it's up to GOP leadership in the House to take it up.
a sizeable part of his district is hispanic.
he’s dead to me because of this. i stuck with him even after he voted for stimulus/bailouts. not anymore.
Ignorance is no longer a defense here, everyone knows whats being attempted with this bill. Ryan is a fraud.
Between Ryan and Rubio. How does one support anything in the GOP anymore?
It must be in the water in DC.
Keep an eye on Rand Paul and Ted Cruz.
The others have already disappeared beneath the waves.
Time for Ryan to get primaried along with all the others who are trying to push this abomination down our throats.
I support voting them all out.
Term limits
One term in office,
Two terms in JAIL.
And the really sickening thing is, we thought he was the saving grace of the Romney ticket!
The venality and corruption of Washington, DC is of proportions likening it to Sodom and Gomorrah. You can figure out the rest of the analogy.
Guaranteed to be a total disaster all by itself.
WILL SOMEBODY PUL-EEZE FORWARD THIS TO PAULLY AND HIS STAFF....HE CAN USE THESE AS HIS TALKING POINTS AND AMERICA IS SAVED.....PRINCESS ANN COULTER THE TIMELESS PATRIOT.. WITH THE KEYS:
http://www.teaparty.org/ann-coulter-u-s-finished-if-amnesty-passes-25564/
http://foxnewsinsider.com/2013/06/21/ann-coulter-hannity-blasts-gop-rubio-immigration-amnesty-bill
I have a somewhat dissillusioned democrat friend who when I asked why she voted for obama again (she HAD conceded that he was a mistake) told me she would have - if the Republicans had come up with a decent alternative.
I remember her saying “Paul Ryan? Really?...”
I used to think Ryan was a good guy. I agree with my democrat friend about him now.
It’s heartbreaking to me that even our “good” guys are turning out to be fakes.
God bless America. It died way too young.
Ryan was mentored by Jack Kemp. Kemp was a huge fan of the GOP Big Tent and was convinced that a message of free market capitalism would somehow convert blacks and other minorities into diehard Republicans. Ryan is a true believer (however incorrect) on this issue...and that includes amnesty so illegals can share the American Dream (even though they're helping to destroy it).
Are giant seed pods being brought into the Senate cloakrooms? Have a large number of ‘republicans’ been assimilated? Sound the alarm.
More like a sucker-punch.
He did not work this hard to defeat Pluggs.
If you look into Ryan’s background it’s pretty lackluster. Worked in DC and married a very wealthy woman who inherited a bundle. Nothing wrong with being wealthy mind you but like McCain it’s easy to try to push off your ideas of how things should be if it was handed to you and rather than having to work for it.
Paul Ryan just dropped off my list of acceptable candidates for any office.
What’s wrong with Ryan?
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Reelection campaigns don’t come cheap.
They use the water to chase down 'stupid pills'.
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