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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Good question - and what is this promise to return to regular order about? Don’t we hold both houses??????
He needs to be recalled, like Boner. Who bargained for an ass who makes Gomer Pyle look like a Nobel Prize winning scientist?
POST OF THE DAY!
And Cruz trusted Mitch McConnell.
Can trust? Paul Ryan is Speak of the House and he trusts Harry Reid? I believe now we have the stupidest Speaker of the House of all time.
If Ryan gets the nomination, I hope the dem wins the election. Ryan deserves to be humiliated in November.
Must be compromised and/or getting big payoff.
Eddie Munster the evil brat has grown up.
RETORT: Conservatives laugh in Republican Lawmakers' faces for trusting Paul Ryan.
Ryan and the whole lot them are laughing in our faces, just daring us to do something about it.
Exactly. He is playing the goober like he doesn’t know how DC works. Pitiful act. GOPe-ers get fooled everyday don’t cha know.
Come on, Wisconsin: Primary this doofus.
Can we start a new saying? 'It`s the uni-party stupid.'
The Republican Party was built upon the idea of murdering Americans for opposing the Almighty Power of Government.
The Democrat party has now been commissioned with the same of murdering the souls of the uninformed for garnering largess.
This nation will die a quiet death, we can only pray.
Ya gotta give it to Reid and Pelosi. They are in the minority, but run both houses of Congress.
0bama must have some good Shiite on the Republican members of both houses.
5.56mm
Percy Garris: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
They laugh in our faces for trusting them!
There you go again...you know we HAD to give the GOPe the House and Senate because Dems are so awful!
LOL,
I love to keep bringing this up.
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).
The same ‘lawmakers’ that felt it was a good idea to hire him in the first place?
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