Posted on 10/7/2016, 5:39:42 AM by Innovative
Now Paul Ryan has given Washington a wake-up call. Reportedly angry that Beltway types were yawning at his plans for 2017 on the grounds that the usual gridlock would stop anything major from happening, the House Speaker held a presser to explain how he could cram a generation’s worth of legislation into a budget reconciliation bill that cannot be filibustered, as Politico’s Ben Weyl reports:
Ryan peeled back the curtain on his strategy at a news conference after a reporter suggested he would struggle to implement his ambitious agenda next year. After all, it was noted, Republicans are certain to lack the 60 votes needed in the Senate to break Democratic filibusters on legislation. So Ryan gave a minitutorial on congressional rules and the bazooka in his pocket for the assembled reporters.
“This is our plan for 2017,” Ryan said, waving a copy of his “Better Way” policy agenda. “Much of this you can do through budget reconciliation.” He explained that key pieces are “fiscal in nature,” meaning they can be moved quickly through a budget maneuver that requires a simple majority in the Senate and House. “This is our game plan for 2017,” Ryan said again to the seemingly unconvinced press.
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I read that Ryan now made peace with Trump and is now supporting him.
President Trump with a Republican Congress can indeed accomplish a lot to :make America great again",
Nice to have Paul’s help, but keep an eye on him, Donald.
Mitt still owns him to some degree.
Trust Ryan?
Everything I’ve read about the “Better Way” policy agenda looks good to me.
Be great to see a united effort behind it.
Ryan makes Boehner seem competent, by comparison. And that’s damn hard to do.
Ryan is in this for Ryan. So make it to his advantage to support you and he will. Accept his help if offered but have your own lawyers look over any agreement and never turn your back on him.
Paul Ryan, blowin’ in the wind.
What a bunch of crap. This traitorous asshole has given Obama everything he wanted. He’s a pro TPP, open borders, Muslim invasion supporting POS.
It’s not a question of competency, it’s a lack of love and respect for America. Ryan is a snake who never held a job in the private sector.
Correct.
EGO/ID. Guy is a scumbag politician.
It’s always “next year” that the change will begin.
Resigning ?
Let’s hope that legislation coming out of the Ryan/McConnell RINO leadership’s progressive dreams.
If that happens let us pray that Trump has the wisdom to veto the legislation.
And he gave away the Internet by not including the Protecting Internet Freedom Act language in the CR that House passed last week—the Act that his colleague from Wisconsin, Sean Duffy, had been working on for over 2 years.
I want to see a lot of people imprisoned.
Thanks. Good point. I did not know that. Now we have to find an honest, ethical, patriotic Speaker.
It will be interesting to watch the RINOS, including Ryan and McConnell, negotiate with President Trump.
If Trump wasn’t in on this, its probably neocon globalist garbage. Ryan has consistently been for refugees, Mexicans, TPP, nationbuilding, etc....
I don’t trust him.
As far as I can throw the Capitol building.
He’s a Cheap Labor Express stooge.
Watch him like a hawk.
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