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Ryan is lying. We all know/suspect this.
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It’s more a shock that you won’t go away and that Arizona continues electing you to a seat that you probably feel belongs to you alone.
Yes John you lost. oh wait…yea, we already know you’re ‘at a loss’ too…pretty much reflects the entire party no? Oh well, carry on yelling at ghosts on your lawn…I think it helps.
Oh, Senator McCain, I am sure you can suggest a suitable candidate, a woman, maybe ? You have done it before, you know you can do it !
McCain was captured, nobody cares what he thinks.
Actually, Beutler has a good article about that today.
He makes some extremely good points. They have to pass a budget in Sept, and as Speaker - Nominee from a brokered convention which will result in at least half of the part being very pissed off, there is no way forward on that that doesn’t get him slaughtered.
Secondly, to avoid that issue he could step down as Speaker, but there is quite literally nobody to turn it over to. Kevin McCarthy, still the #2 guy? Scalise?? Stepping down either turns the House back into turmoil with its own election process,…which means no budget gets passed and Ryan has to own that…or he does a transition of power to someone that, again, half of the party hates…with the same basic outcome…no budget and Ryan owns a shutdown.
The whole party owns the disaster they find themselves in. But McCain contributed perhaps the biggest share of responsibility when he choose his soulmate as his VP pick.
Maybe not.
“Much of this process is irrelevant, from a practical point of view. Congress passed a budget deal last year that set spending targets for two years. The Senate is expected to use those spending levels to write spending bills — despite conservative distaste for the top line. That is sure to spark tension between the House and Senate. But few seem to care.”
“We’ve already got the spending targets. I would prefer to it just to keep the muscle memory of passing budgets — that’s something that past Congresses lost sight of,” said GOP Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina. “We can move forward with the Appropriations process with or without it.”
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/congress-republican-budget-221859
Perhaps old John can persuade that fn nitwit he foisted upon us to save the GOP!
“McCain Says He’s ‘At A Loss’ After Paul Ryan Announces He Won’t Run”
First of all, jony mc being at a loss at anything, no surprise there!
Secondly, ryan ISN’T running for anything fool. It’s called stealing the nomination, not winning it!
I’m no trump fan but if he wins the most delegates, who are these assholes to take it away from him? The re-puke base voted for trump, he should win the nomination!
THIS is all on you jony! Too cute by half selecting the asshole from the north to be your running mate. YOU started this crap! Now live with it.
Frankenstein regrets building monster. Story at 11.
I mean, let’s be honest here, while McCain didn’t Frankenstein this shit all by himself, he certainly provided the monster’s mouth when he gifted our political discourse with Jabberwocky Barbie.
Now that Paul Ryan has stepped aside, the Republican elite should anoint Mitch McConnell to be their nominee. Mitch McConnell is more charismatic, conservative, intelligent and articulate than Paul Ryan and Ted Cruz.
Beutler says that in his current position, Ryan is “the load bearing block in the GOP’s rickety Jenga tower.” That line alone was worth the price of admission.
Why is no one mentioning poor old Mitt Romney ? You are hurting his feelings !
They passed a budgetary frame work last year…not the same thing as a budget. And the came within an eyelash of blowing that up last year, too. It was one of the major reasons that Boehner got forced out…he wanted to actually honor it, and of course the Freedom Caucus wanted none of that.
And they won’t want it again this time, either. Even if they agreed to their previously agreed deal, they still have to pass actual appropriations bills. As that article indicates, they are going to blow off the 4/15 deadline entirely, just like they did last year. The expectation is they will blow through each deadline (there are a serious of appropriations bills that get passed through the year in a “normal” process) and once again deal with it in crisis mode at the last minute in Sept.
EDIT: And here it is on posted on TPM while I was writing that.
TPM:
“I’m at a loss, OK? I do not know what’s going to happen,” the Arizona senator told Bloomberg Politics. “I just don’t see that a lot of it’s going to turn out well. …”
“My whole world has fallen apart!” the Senator continued. “Whatever will we do without our savior, without our white knight to lead us?”
Psst, John. There’s a woman out there who’d be perfect.
No, not her! God no!! I’m talking about Hillary.
Assume the failure to pass a budget results in various forms of disruption to the economy. Secondly, assume the responsibility for that budget deadline failure and those disruptions could be laid squarely at the doorstep of the GOP. However fragmented and contentious the GOP is within their caucus they don’t want such a mess two months before the election. Even possessed of polling showing the Prez race is a lost cause they’ll still aspire to down-ballot successes in hopes of retaining Congressional majorities. The budget will get done.
That is pretty interesting, thanks for the link!