Posted on 10/12/2015 8:33:26 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
As of this writing, House Ways and Means Chairman Paul Ryan has not decided whether to run for speaker. He has been bombarded by all the Republican factions. Even Mitt Romney says the Wisconsinite can unify the Republican conference and take ON the job.
I applaud Ryan’s leadership and policy skills and think he would make a good speaker
But there’s a backstory to the current chaos of the GOP conference and the withdrawal of Kevin McCarthy from the speakership race. The GOP leadership in the House and Senate has failed to pass legislation to repeal the Obama agenda and put the measures on the president’s desk. If he vetoes them, so be it. We go to 2016. But it’s all been broken promises.
Former Bush speechwriter Peter Robinson just reminded readers on the Ricochet website of an interview he had with Kevin McCarthy before the 2014 midterms.
Robinson: “You will pass a reform agenda, putting bill after bill on President Obama’s desk?”
McCarthy: “Yeah, that’s our job.”
It never happened. No bills passed by the House and Senate to repeal Obamacare. No pro-growth tax reform (especially corporate tax reform). No broad-based energy bill. No bill to retract Obama’s illegal executive immigration actions.
This failure has enraged the Republican grassroots and has sent three outsiders — Donald Trump, Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina — to the top of the GOP presidential field.
What have the congressional Republicans been waiting for?
Well, according to ace Washington policy analyst Dan Clifton of Strategas, the Ryan-led Ways and Means committee has been moving on three pieces of reconciliation legislation to defund Planned Parenthood and target specific pieces of Obamacare for repeal. And Clifton notes that reconciliation legislation requires just 51 votes in the Senate. Sure, Obama would veto this. But at least the GOP would signal its intentions should they win the White House in 2016.
It never happened. No bills passed by the House and Senate to repeal Obamacare. No pro-growth tax reform (especially corporate tax reform). No broad-based energy bill. No bill to retract Obama’s illegal executive immigration actions.
This failure has enraged the Republican grassroots and has sent three outsiders — Donald Trump, Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina — to the top of the GOP presidential field.
What have the congressional Republicans been waiting for?
Well, according to ace Washington policy analyst Dan Clifton of Strategas, the Ryan-led Ways and Means committee has been moving on three pieces of reconciliation legislation to defund Planned Parenthood and target specific pieces of Obamacare for repeal. And Clifton notes that reconciliation legislation requires just 51 votes in the Senate. Sure, Obama would veto this. But at least the GOP would signal its intentions should they win the White House in 2016.
MUST click on the link and scroll down to the Levin/Ryan interview. It explains a lot. My own Congressman has told me sommething similar, except without the specifics.
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The plan is the only way currently to slow this monstrosity but they are doing so yielding a pyrric victory, we plant a flag of position which We as a party must agree and stand behind or it is all wasted time...
Good strategy but who has the stones to follow it...
Levin is very emphatic about Ryano not being speaker. he is an amnesty GOPe pimp and would be as bad or worse than Boehner.
It doesn’t sound like Levin is against it in this interview. Why don’t you listen?
Kudlow never explains why the Republicans have been delaying in passing the bills listed in Kudlow’s piece.
You’re supposed to know that it is because of the 60 vote rule. Nothing in the Senate comes up for a vote without 60 votes. We only have 54 Republicans and that’s only if we hold all of them.
Kudlow’s piece is dated yesterday, 11 Oct. Levin’s interview predates the events of Paul Ryan taking this weekend to consider and reportedly has considered and wants 230 votes, no deal, and 100% cooperation. Hell’s bells, who *wouldn’t* want a slide into home plate like that?
“Mommy can I eat the whole cake, even before the party starts?”
Forget it.
I am so tired, I didn’t see the link to the Mark Levin and Ryan interview.
I will look tomorrow.
I noticed that Kudlow said that Paul Ryan didn’t seem to be in a mood to be all that aggressive with regard to pulling off the repeal of obamacare via reconciliation.
LOL. I love your your way with words.
I hope Paul Ryan decides to stay put and keep his present Chairmanship. His initial instinct is correct - he is first a devoted family man and his children will only be young once.
FUPR. Wont reunify jack for me. Effing romneybot,tarp voter, wont fight for jack. Look at what hes fought to get rid of. Nada.
Leading up to the 2012 election Larry Kudlow, during his weekend radio show, constantly said that Romney was the answer to the country’s ills and would essentially save us all. His judgement is approaching that of Dick Morris.
Kudlow is true-blue establishment.
Well, you are very correct about that fact. He is a wonderful family man by all accounts and that fresh face says he’s an all around great guy. I just haven’t recovered from his very determined amnesty stand, and also just read that he is one of only TWELVE who have voted for EVERY single government bail out.
This from the guy who is suppose to be math whiz. LOL! Yikes!
PS. I don’t know if you would remember it or not, but Ryan met (during the early illegals invasion) with what I call the open borders contingent from the USCCB, and filled every plank of their wish list and got their happy endorsement. I’ve been watching him ever since.
It’s a good guess that he won’t be going back on that issue, after presumably rather accepting the pseudo mantle of the Church laid upon him. You know what I mean?
Don’t recall who said it first, but “Open Borders seeps from his every pore.”
I can’t forgive Ryan for capitulating and accepting the premise of all of Joe Biden’s lies in the VP debate.
You're wrong about that - as Kudlow notes in the article. Perhaps you didn't read the article and you've apparently forgotten that Obamacare was passed via reconciliation with less than 60 votes.
Obamacare Passed With Reconciliation, 'Can Be Repealed With Reconciliation'
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