"Boss! What do I do? The peasants are revolting!"
"You can say that again!"
Posted on 02/03/2016 4:37:36 PM PST by cotton1706
"To quote William Wallace in Braveheart," Paul Ryan said on Wednesday morning, "we have to unite the clans."
This was the money quote of the House speaker's address to a conservative conference in Washington. The one his office dished out to reporters in advance, a canned sound bite designed to pull back, every so briefly, the ears of a Beltway political crowd transfixed by the intensifying presidential campaign.
Just about 12 hours earlier, Ryan met for beers with the most troublesome of those "clans"-the House Freedom Caucus, that group of a few dozen conservatives who shoved Ryan's predecessor, John Boehner, out of office and who gave him only the most lukewarm of blessings to take his place. According to The Huffington Post, the meeting "did not go well." The topic was the budget, and the insistence of the Freedom Caucus members that House Republicans abandon the two-year agreement that Boehner struck with the White House by cutting billions of dollars in spending for fiscal 2017.
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They put Ryan in.
Ryan should listen to them not cry or try to bully and scapegoat.
Paul can go fuch himself and the uniparty he rode in on.
My price is defined 0bamacare.
Or stuff it, ryan.
De-fund.
Danged spel chek.
If only these publications would put ‘Trump’, ‘Cruz’ and ‘lie’ or ‘smear’ in the title.
Then Freepers might pay some attention...
Ryan has the same problem as Boehner had- too many RINOs in the caucus.
There are some in congress that need our support.
Paul Ryan: GTFO
Lyin’ Ryan....his district is in revolt....if they can’t ‘Brat’ him out....they will vote for the Dem, just to get him out.
Hear hear!
I agree, vote Dem, vote him out. This is a chess game. He’s just one pawn, but will send a HUUUGE message ...
Come on Wisconsin, Cantorize this weasel!
Yeah it makes me wonder why the Freedom Caucus rolled so easily and let Ryan just waltz on in ..
“Yeah it makes me wonder why the Freedom Caucus rolled so easily and let Ryan just waltz on in ..”
I didn’t like that.
Supposedly Ryan assuaged their concerns.
We’ve accepted our own party shoving liberal cap down our throats, always putting off the fight until “next time” for decades. That time is over. If Ryan wants to “unite the clans” he can start pushing a conservative agenda down the big government statist in his caucus throats.
That’s the way it sounds ... they must have been promised all kinds of great things ... I really hope they aren’t that stupid ..they are our firewall in the house ...I was hoping Chaffetz would have gotten it
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