Posted on 06/12/2015 10:22:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It’s going to be weird when John Boehner and John McCain are returned to Congress next November by landslide margins while Mr. Entitlement Reform is busy clearing out his desk.
Oh well. The Ted Cruz primary fight in 2018 will be interesting, at least.
Laura Ingraham
✔ @IngrahamAngle Wisconsin sources say discussions building in favor of challenging @RepPaulRyan over his role in the #ObamaTrade. #PeoplesCandidate
10:05 AM - 12 Jun 2015
Laura Ingraham
✔ @IngrahamAngle FACT: @RepPaulRyan will have mega bucks to defend his reelection from the same Corps that benefit from & lobbied for #ObamaTrade.
10:30 AM - 12 Jun 2015
Laura Ingraham
✔ @IngrahamAngle Has anyone seen Dems or GOP fight for anything as hard in the past year? #FastTrackforAmericaNeeded https://twitter.com/chadpergram/status/609429166879059968 …
1:40 PM - 12 Jun 2015
Ingraham championed Dave Brat’s challenge to Eric Cantor last year, which virtually no one but her took seriously until election night, so when she says Ryan’s on the chopping block there’s a bit of extra credibility to it. I won’t believe it until I see it happen; as far as I know, Ryan’s still well liked in his home district, something that wasn’t true of the often absent Cantor. For a guy normally regarded as a conservative hero, though, he does have some conspicuous heresies in his record — TARP, comprehensive immigration reform, the 2013 budget deal with Patty Murray, his ongoing alliance with Boehner and the reviled House leadership, now this. The recent Pelosi-esque line about finding out what’s in the bill after it passes was icing on the cake. I think it’s less likely that he’ll be primaried than that his path to higher office, be it the presidency or the Senate, has been damaged, if only temporarily. If you’re going to stick your neck out for entitlement reform, you’d better have conservatives in your corner at least. Increasingly he doesn’t.
Speaking of losing your base over trade bills, a golden moment from Obama’s huddle this morning with House Democrats:
Jake Tapper
✔ @jaketapper House Democratic Rep #1 re: POTUS visit to Hill: "He was fine until he turned it at the end and became indignant and alienated some folks."
1:43 PM - 12 Jun 2015
Really? That sounds so unlike him.
Now that Pelosi and his own caucus have royally humiliated him on a high-profile vote, I think we can safely safe that Hillary Clinton has replaced the lame duck as the new leader of the Democratic Party. Henceforth, proper Hot Air usage will change from “semi-retired president” to “fully retired.” Exit question: Via the Right Scoop, skip to 1:15 of the clip below for a little cheerleading for fast-track trade authority. When do we primary this guy?
(SCOTT-WALKER-VIDEO-AT-LINK)
Is Romney going to be drafted?
We need to not overreact. This is a BIG deal. At the same time it is a temporary deal. Obama will be gone soon.
yeah, his “slaves to their libido” remark will get him plenty of votes.
Remember when republicans were going to get slaughtered because of the shutdown? yeah, neither do I.
Cruz 2016
The hate Huckabee thing gets tiresome.
Clinton - Bush 2016
Go Team.... Come on FR, we can do it!!!
Paul Ryan’s primary opponent last time was Jeremy Ryan who was a pro-amnesty pro-pot libertarian.
It is hard to know what the opposition to Paul Ryan is.
dont hate him. dont doubt he’s a good man.
i’m not that young, 47, and he seems old and outdated to me.
he would get destroyed by the under 34 crowd imho
i could be wrong. it happens alot.
Treaties do not just go away with a different president.
>> For a guy normally regarded as a conservative hero, though, he does have some conspicuous heresies in his record — TARP
Ryan thrives on recognition of his policy calculus. The boy is needy.
Sometimes they do. Dubya abrogated the ABM treaty, although technically one of the parties (the USSR) no longer existed.
If this “Deal” were an Executive Order or Executive Direction Memo, then I wouldn’t be as worried. However, when provisions for changes to immigration, stopping imports (say for guns and ammo), increased VISA quotas and the like are tacked on to some trade benefit package big business is salivating over, THOSE ACTIONS BECOME LAW.
A future President can erase and EO with a signature; it is very much more difficult to repeal a law and leave the good parts (if any) intact.
This is why I am against TPA which gives him the authority to write his own ticket AND sets the conditions on which it (a future Pact) can be defeated by Congress (the Yes/No bar is highly lopsided here). This RINO leadership is intentionally hogtieing itself and they would not do that for other laws.
On the same ticket or separately?
When Nancy Pelosi is seriously called a hero at FR its hard to tell.
It is. US citizens across the political spectrum got mad as hell at the DC crowd continuing to sell out voters. At the very least, the DC crowd had an obligation to vote "no" and put the whole thing on hold until it was more out in the open and not another us vs them vote.
We have every reason to be disgusted with the "constitutional conservatives" who voted for this because they know what's best for us. They didn't trust that on some things people who live with the consequences of their votes know more than they do.
We’re going to get this deal deal and we’re going to get it a lot worse. Democrats are already lining up with their hands out and will vote for it when they get what they want.
They won’t get a Ted Cruz vote but he warned that there were worse deals. They will get enough democrat votes to dump a few billion into democrat and union coffers.
Good point.
That's a leftist tactic, throwing the word "hate" towards people who have ideological disagreements with your preferred political figure.
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