Posted on 12/20/2015 10:28:25 AM PST by C19fan
House Speaker Paul Ryan is dismissing conservative criticism of the $1.1 trillion spending bill that Congress passed on Friday, saying that Republican leaders "fought for as much as we could get" in the compromise legislation.
"We advanced our priorities and principles. Not every single one of them, but many of them. And then we're going to pick up next year and pick up where we left off and keep going for more," he told NBC's Chuck Todd in an interview on Meet the Press.
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the problem with this current government is that they govern this country as though they are in a war with the common citizens. The common citizens had better start acting as though those in DC are the enemy because demonstrably, that war is real and the DC establishment is winning.
Well said.
Liar. He fought for as much as he could deliver to his K-Street handlers.
To paraphrase a posting on this week’s Friday Silliness Thread:
Q: How do you castrate Harry Reid?
A: Kick Paul Ryan in the mouth
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Ah ha, that explains it. I mistakenly thought Paul Ryan was saying that he was a Tea Partier. What he was actually saying all along was that he was a “Tea Bagger-er”. The ‘RATS were right about him all along.
All I want to know Paul, is when Harry pulled out did he kiss your neck and pat your butt and give you a wipey?
Wasn't that Boehner's cry as well as he waved the surrender flag, oh so many times?
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Yeah...they fought (SURRENDERED) so hard and so loud I could hear them waiving the “please like me white flag” all the way down here in Antarctica!
Ryan did NOT work hard for America.
Spineless little pricks!
They settled for the Democrat leavings.
The only thing Ryan fought for was the amount,if any, astroglide Obama would use on him.
Republicans have the majority so what he says is bunk.
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