Posted on 12/15/2013 9:35:24 AM PST by ColdOne
"I think the pressure of divided government has come full force, and I think the specter of one or two more government shutdowns concentrated our minds to make this divided government work," Paul Ryan said on Saturday afternoon, speaking with THE WEEKLY STANDARD by phone from his hometown of Janesville. "It's very clear that without this deal two things would happen: The military would have borne the full force of these cuts starting in January. And we would have at least one more government shutdown drama.”
“We think that's bad,” Ryan said during a break between games at his son's basketball tournament. “We think that's not in our interest. We want 2014 to be a year where we don't keep cutting the military, and we focus on Obamacare, we focus on the conservative reforms we want to roll out, and we win the next election so we can start saving this country."
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Socialist-lite is still socialist
Paul Rhino is a fraud like the majority of the GOPDNC. I dropped R from my name last week.
“...Ryan also noted that the deal gives Congress time to come up with a better way to achieve the same savings. “We delayed this provision so that it doesn’t take effect until the year 2016, which gives Congress and the military community time to address the broader compensation issue, including this provision, if people believe there’s a better way to solve this problem,” he said....”
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I think their bill should reduce Congressional pay to about 20K per year and reduce their retirement pay to based upon their most recent 3 years of ($20,000/year) salary effective 2016 to give them time to come up with a better way to solve the problem. Of course they won’t do that.
“Socialist-lite is still socialist”
EXACTLY! The revelation of this after his proud back-patting with comrade Murray and this ..
…is TREASONOUS
“First we have to pass the bill in order to find out what’s in it” REDUX
Tactics of TOTALITARIANS ALERT!
Its very strange to me how Republicans are willing to play the boring accountants to Democrats’ Rock-Star spending.
Why is Ryan the one who has to go out and talk about cuts to Military, entitlements, etc...?
Republicans seem to be masochists.
yes it is!!!!
This is what I think about when people say it is more important to “get a majority” than to elect conservatives... we had a majority in the house that passed this horrendous bill.
Just anther POS!
“Another”
Thank God he didn’t become Vice President. What a jerk! Kept the federal workers safe and only new workers get hit, but ALL military retirees are hit. What a f’ing jerk. I absolutely loth him now. I hope he gets kicked to the curb in 2014.
Or at the very least put all federal retired personnel on the same footing. If they need to save $7B over the next 10 years eliminate the Peace Corps, National Endowment for the Arts, Vista, Americorps, the Department of Labor, the National Endowment for the Humanities and turning the Pell Grant Program into the Pell Loan Program. Pell Loan from Grant would be much tougher to calculate but overall I think I just gave him his $7B, and annually. Oh, add the EEOC and Department of Commerce plus every federal ‘diversity coordinator’ while he is at it.
I don’t remember the percentages, but most of our Congresscritters are millionaires. Not that this means they should work for free, but the salaries they make are not significant to most of them. Successful Senatorial bidders spend $10 million. Successful Representatives spend about $1.5 million. Of course, that’s not their money.
However, by the time they leave office they’re generally worth oodles more than when the started. The difference is what they make on speaking fees, graft, and (legal) insider trading.
A friend says that every politician should serve two terms. One in office and one in prison.
Summary....Ryan caved totally. He only did it to grab attention from Ted Cruz's momentum. Conclusion....Ryan's as bad as is McCain for backstabbing constitutional conservatives.
We need a majority house AND senate.
It amazes me that people think we’re going to significantly cut govt with only the house in our possession.
The truth is the Republicans are not afraid of the Democrats, they are afraid of the media. The majority of people in this country are against the Democrat agenda, and the Republicans can’t even figure out how to use that sentiment to extract meaningful compromise. Even if the Republicans gain both houses next fall, I don’t think we will see any substantive action to correct the path we are on. The Democrats will continue to push the agenda because as soon as the Republicans try to tack to the right the media will start screaming, and the Republicans, since they don’t know how to talk to people outside the beltway, will fracture. It seems the Republicans are more afraid of the media now than they ever have been, and you can always count on a segment of Republicans like McCain, Graham, Collins, that idiot from Alaska, and the “moderate” du jour to join the Democrats and further undermine any cohesion the Republicans have to do the right thing. All this talk about “numbers” is just the latest smokescreen to try and by a little time while they calculate the next scheme to confuse low information Republican voters so they can keep their cushy government perks. We need fresh blood in elected office. We need people that aren’t lethargic in their coziness with the current status quo. We also need fresh minds; this goes for the staffers as well, plotting an end run around the complicit media.
Next the government is coming after Tricare.
Our constitution REQUIRES that we have a fully-funded military. It should NEVER have been allowed to be sequestered! There is a lot of waste and fraud in the military budget, I know, but to cut ONLY the military, when there are several agencies who operate WITHOUT Congressional oversight, is downright outrageous!The republican really do NOT know how to fight leftists. They are in over their heads! And, yet, why no calls for our country to return to God? He is the only One who can save us. If we don’t we are allowing the Marxists in power to destroy us, willingly, because we fear being called names by them. This makes me really angry.
The House just raised taxes, spending and funded ObamaCare for 2 years. It amazes me that people think we are going to cut government even if these guys control both houses of Congress.
“and we focus on Obamacare, we focus on the conservative reforms we want to roll out, and we win the next election so we can start saving this country.”
“Reforming” the ObamaCare turd and we just need to win one more election and THEN will fight for conservatism. Just one more election.
Did I say just one more election?
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