[bestintxas]

Revealed: Soemone who will never be president.

Another RINO we cannot stand.

[Cyber Liberty]

Well, that political future just cancelled itself.

[Cricket24]

OMG! Does Ryan realize he just ruined he career? What an idiot.

[Hostage]

Years back when many were swooning at this pretty baby face, I cautioned that he was mediocre in his thinking and that his apparent popularity was a creation of the liberal media a la McCain.

[informavoracious]

This is what we get. Benedict McCain and Tokyo Ryan. I wonder what the NSA has on Cruz. Or what it claims it has. They can manufacture anything.

[Nervous Tick]

(shhh... we got us a real naive one here...)

HEY PAUL! Tell you what, man. Since you’re a dealmaker why don’t you trade me your house and car for this little sack of magic BEANS! Later (coincidentally long after I have cashed in your titles) they will grow into magic beanstalks leading into a really cool fantasy kingdom! TRUST ME!

(Well, why shouldn’t I give it a shot — it’s the exact type of deal he wants to buy into with the Kenyan and his ‘rats...)

[CatherineofAragon]

One of these days, I’ll vote for a Republican who doesn’t make me end up regretting it.

[Maelstorm]

Paul Ryan unfortunately has always telegraphed that when the rubber met the road the establishment would always get his vote. I can’t think of one vote where he bucked the party establishment. Is he a Rhino, not really but he is an establishment guy. You aren’t going to find him throwing bombs like Peter King, Charlie Dent, and John McCain but you will find him going out of his way not to upset the boat.

[Williams]

Let’s drop him instead.

[oldbrowser]

We need to pay our bills today—and make sure we can pay our bills tomorrow. So let's negotiate an agreement to make modest reforms to entitlement programs and the tax code,” Ryan wrote

This is a response to Obama's speech. Trying to sound reasonable without giving an inch. The devil is always in the details.

Sure we will have another continuing resolution. (Except It will require a 30% reduction in the budget. And Major changes to entitlements, especially Obamacare.)
It isn't in anyone's interest to have a shut down of non essential employees. So let's have the senate and the president agree to our plan.

[Frapster]

I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt that he’s not a RINO but is instead a miguided politician who is thinking about his future pathway rather than recognizing the constitutional crisis we’re in. There’s no more give, Ryan... no more give.

[greene66]

Yeah, this is the guy that was put on the ticket as supposedly the “conservative” counterbalance to Romney! And just months after the election, Ryan is all over the place, pushing amnesty and endorsing homo adoption. Now add Obamacare into the mix!

Is it any wonder I have now gone from a longtime and exclusive GOP voter/supporter to someone who has nothing but INTENSE and MASSIVE distrust towards the Republican Party? As if the first big clue, the backstabbing of Palin, wasn’t enough to wake me up... the betrayals of Rubio and Ryan certainly sealed things.

[IronJack]

Wow! What a disappointment HE turned out to be! The GOP must have some special Quisling School where they send their contenders to be neutered and spayed.

[nathanbedford]

Let us put ourselves in Obama's head and consider that there are three possibilities here:

1. Obama wants a shutdown and a crisis and perhaps an economic meltdown. Evidence of this is his intractability in declining even to negotiate when Republicans were begging him for a fig leaf so they could surrender. He wants a calamity as an opportunity for transformation.

2. Obama wants a growing economy as a measure of his legacy and fears a shutdown just as his rhetoric says he does.

3. Obama wants to create a crisis so that he can unilaterally extend the debt limit thus violating the Constitution and usurping the Article 1 power of the purse from Congress.

If Obama's state of mind is accurately expressed in option #1, no amount of maneuvering or surrendering will divert him from extending the shutdown and busting the debt limit. The only thing left for the Republicans to salvage at that point will be to position themselves to avoid blame and survive politically in the fallout.

If Obama's state of mind is accurately expressed in option #2, there is a possibility for real negotiation and that means not that Republicans should be looking for ways to surrender but for ways to expand their victory. Paul Ryan obviously has no interest in derailing Obamacare and he is fixated on his original budget balancing crusade. He is right in the long run and very wrong in the short run. Who wins the negotiation depends on two factors, who refrains from blinking and who wins the public-relations battle. The winner of the public-relations battle can actually have both the modification of Obamacare and substantial rationalization of the budget.

If Obama's state of mind is accurately expressed in option #3, he probably dealing out of hubris and nothing will stop or deter him from his chosen course. If he is strong enough to unilaterally extend the debt limit and get away with it, I think the Republicans will have broken and Obama will finish his term as top dog.

[cherokee1]

“-—modest reforms-—” suck on it Ryan. Get yourself motivated to actually do some good.

[freekitty]

POS

[JerseyHighlander]

IF he was ever a good man, he is no longe.
He is a chameleon, a vulture, a sycophant amongst the elites in DC.

He left the Heritage Foundation researchers out to dry when the wind changed direction, and he has no real intention to fix entitlement reform , his quote unquote pet issue, eeither, because he’s spent the last 3 weeks in closed door sessions with Democrats on behest of his corporate and pro-amnesty lobbyists to entitle another 30 million future penniless chain migration immigrants to leech from the welfare state after he passes his Amnesty Bill in the next month.

The House Bill to grant Amnesty to all illegals, and to provide chain mirtation allowing another 15 to 30 million penniless uneducated immigrants into the country is PAUL RYAN’s BILL. he negotiated it, he controls the GOP strategy, his aids and his lobbyist donors wrote this bill.

The man is purely out to provide for his own welath at this point. There is no longer a redeeming quality in his forked tongue approach of lying to the GOP rank and file while taking most of his donations from companies wanting to increase amnesty, immigration levels, and public entitlements.

The cognitive dissonance amongst the GOP elite’s public relations machinery has fallen apart at the seams.

[jmaroneps37]

He has fallen to a point where he is an embarrassment even compared to all other RINOs and that’s going pretty far.

[fwdude]

I never did trust him.

He did horribly in a debate against Mr. Foot-in-Mouth, which should have been a slam dunk, but wasn’t.

And the fact that the Prince of RINO’s chose him was suspect in itself.

[Political Junkie Too]

Ryan was added to the Romney ticket only because he was the author of an actual House budget that passed and was sent to the Senate.

This only makes sense if Romney had intended to use Ryan to press Obama and Reid into passing a Senate budget as a part of the presidential campaign.

Romney didn't, and so elevating Ryan, in hindsight, added no value.

-PJ

[jmaroneps37]

He has fallen to a point where he is an embarrassment even compared to all other RINOs and that’s going pretty far.