Posted on 12/23/2015 12:28:29 PM PST by Hoodat
Republican lawmakers reportedly laughed at House Speaker Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) after he told them he had been given a promise from Senate Democratic Leader Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV).
Lawmakers were amused at Ryan's naiveté for thinking that Reid is someone their party can trust. "I know, I know," Ryan replied with a smile, according to The Hill. Reid and Ryan just finished working together to help pass a $1 trillion dollar spending bill, which many argue contained far more liberal policies than conservative ones. Reid has promised Ryan that he will return to regular order in the New Year. According to the Hill, Republicans on Capitol Hill aren't buying it.
They feel they've been burned one too many times by Reid, who repeatedly filibustered House-passed appropriations bills this year and has a reputation for launching broadsides against the GOP from the Senate floor. And they're not so sure the Nevada Democrat will allow bills to move through the Senate Appropriations Committee to the floor, where after they are approved they could be merged with House-passed legislation.
"I personally don't trust Harry Reid as far as I could throw him," quipped Rep. John Carter (R-TX), chairman of the Committee on Appropriations' Subcommittee on Homeland Security.
"I'm extraordinarily skeptical," added Ryan's Wisconsin colleague, GOP Rep. Reid Ribble (R-WI).
"I don't want to be pessimistic, but Harry's a tough character to deal with and he'll find some way to stop virtually anything that he doesn't completely support, which is most of what we care about," said House Small Business Committee Chairman Steve Chabot (R-Ohio). Still, he added, "I wouldn't discourage Paul from trying."
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Ryan needs to be gotten rid of/primarried.
Here's an oldie post of mine from 2009 on Harry Reid's history of reneging on promises:
...McConnell got Reid to agree to hold a high-profile debt-limit vote next month -- just before the president's State of the Union address...Specter suggests Reid reneged on word.
Newly-turned Democrat Arlen Specter today hinted that that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid reneged on his word to allow Specter to keep his seniority on committees on which he sits. "Sen. Reid assured me that I would keep my committee assignments, and that I would have the same seniority as if I had been elected as a Democrat in 1980," Specter said in a written statement today.Reid Bows to Far Left as Rs Rank Judges Issue #1.
And they undoubtedly have the Rasmussen survey results in the back of their minds as they consider their reaction to Majority Leader Reid’s broken promise to confirm three appeals court nominees before the Memorial Day recess, as well as Reid’s sure-to-be-broken earlier promises to meet the historical average (17) for appeals court confirmations in a president’s final two years. With just a couple of months left in the confirmation window, Reid is less than halfway to meeting that average.[snip]
“A good GOP Senate source reports today that Minority Leader Mitch McConnell addressed the entire Republican Conference … about the judge-fight issue. McConnell is said to have been very insistent that he would not let Majority Leader Reid's broken promise go unpunished … He would not tell the Conference exactly what action he was planning, but he did say it would be very firm, and that all concerned would know it when we see it.” – Quin Hillyer (5/21/08)
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While Sen. Lott overcame numerous obstacles to get Paez and Berzon confirmed, Sen. Reid has looked for excuses to renege on his pledge.
[snip]
GOP senators are understandably angry that Sen. Reid broke the golden rule of senatorial honor by reneging on his commitment.
[snip]
Democrats Target Coburn’s Holds
To ease passage of the public lands measure, Reid promised Coburn the chance to offer a limited number of amendments.Reid: No Vote On Lifting Drug Import Ban Before Health-Care BillBut after the majority leader objected to a Coburn proposal that would have eased restrictions on firearms in national parks, the package stalled for months, prompting Coburn to charge that Reid reneged on their agreement.
Coburn eventually got to offer four amendments — all of which were defeated — but not the guns measure.
Republicans accused U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., of reneging Tuesday on a pledge to allow a Senate vote on a measure lifting an import ban on pharmaceutical drugs before lawmakers take up health-care legislation.The development, supported by major drug makers, comes as the Senate is moving to craft the politically delicate compromises needed for the broader health care overhaul bill.
In a letter to a bipartisan group of senators that have been pushing for the import ban to be scrapped, Reid said there wouldn't be time in the busy legislative calendar for full consideration of legislation lifting the long-standing prohibition now.
"He did commit to us and obviously that commitment is not going to be kept," Senator John McCain, R-Ariz., said Tuesday evening.
Recently...
AFL-CIO Boss to Harry Reid: Go Nuclear
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D., Ore.) accused Republicans of trying to “disable the administration” by blocking the appointments, though he stopped short of saying “campaign donations are directly attributable” for GOP opposition. Merkley received $1.2 million from labor groups since 2010, including more than $275,000 for his 2014 campaign.Merkley defended President Obama’s recess appointments while the Senate was in session because “functionally we were out of session.” He also accused McConnell of violating a pair of “gentleman’s agreements” to confirm President Obama’s nominees without “obstruction” from the minority.
Obama and Reid reneged on a labor truce of their own when the Democrats re-nominated Block and Griffin to the board, according to a top Republican aide.
-PJ
The majority of Great Americans are laughing in the bearded one’s face. He had best get used to it. As time goes by only more will continue to do the same. Losers never sleep. Losers never learn.
“Lawmakers were amused at Ryan’s naivete...”
Oh please. Ryan’s about as naive as a hooker who takes over for a pimp and runs the bordello. Isn’t that the best description of congress?
Covering for this democrat in elephant hide is insulting.
That is so utterly dead-on.
Paul ‘Dildo’ Ryan...The only negotiator worse than John Kerry. So Mr. One-Eye pulled a fast one on him.
Ryan is not dumb. He is diabolical. He was “cleaning out the barn”, you know, and it just so happens that the barn was full of Marxist dreams. Well, Ryan is smellier than all the BS that he just “swept out” of it. He is another cancer on the body politic.
How many of the guys laughing it up voted for the budget bill?
Of course, the ones laughing at him are the same ones who elected
him speaker.
Dumb and dumber.
Who would have believed that Ryan would be worse than Boner? He is a lowlife scumbag.
Eventually, after the country collapses, people will learn. They apparently need inhuman levels of pain to learn. But pain teaches. So pain is what they will get. Reality cares not one whit for their ‘feelings’ on the matter.
Who needs Democrats when you have Washington Republicans?
This same bunch still has the 2017 budget before them, right?
Some more familiar with how congress is supposed to work please help me out here.
Ryan is Speaker Of The House, right? McConnell is Senate Majority Leader. OK, shouldn’t those two be working together? If they want to confer with the rats, shouldn’t McConnell be the one working with Reid?
Or does Reid just run the whole show and everyone just get’s permission slips from him?
Or is Ryan trying to be the big guy here and work direct with the person in control of congress?
Look up mentally retarded ass-wipe in a dictionary - and there is a picture of Paul Ryan.
Has Reid referred to Ryan as his little pet,yet?
Maybe Reid did some soul searching and turned over a new leaf,
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