[Vigilanteman]

Sorry Paul,

Last October, you were a rising star. Since then, your two main accomplishments seem to be:

1. Getting snookered into a lopsided "compromise" by the dumbest member of the U.S. Senate.
   
2. Losing a debate to Joe Biden.

How low can you go?

[Hojczyk]

You can blame the big spending RINOS for this…If they all stuck together they could have passed a continuing resolution..the RINOS wanted more defense spending and other spending….so Ryan was stuck trying to get a deal..

[Yogafist]

Actually, based on what he said here, he didn’t get snookered. He was negotiating preventing the Democrats from shutting down the government and allowing the media to blame it on Republicans. Based on this, his negotiations were successful. Murray got her spending increase, Ryan prevented a shut down, everyone won. At least in his mind.

[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

He was a fool back then too, back when the Presidential race was going on. I seem to recall distinctly that his budget plan was all smoke and mirrors too. It “cut spending” by imagining that the United States was magically going to prosper at levels not seen in a decade. Thus the lower deficit wasn’t by actual spending cuts, but by increased revenue that he imagined into his math.