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Ryan Asked Boehner to Pass Him Over for Appointment to Super Debt Committee
Fox News ^ | August 10, 2011 | Fox News

Posted on 08/11/2011 11:55:11 AM PDT by americanophile

House Speaker John Boehner's decision not to appoint the Republican Party's financial wizard, Rep. Paul Ryan, to a 12-member super committee tasked with finding more than $1 trillion in savings came as a surprise to almost everyone but Ryan, who said he asked not to be a member of the panel despite earlier indications that he would serve if asked.

Several Republicans had rooted for Ryan to be part of the 12-member panel.

"I definitely would have Chairman Paul Ryan, just because he lives and breathes these numbers, he knows them inside and out. He understands what needs to be done," Rep. Michael Grimm, R-N.Y., told CNBC before Boehner's announcement. "I think Paul Ryan definitely has to be at that."

Ryan, chairman of the House Budget Committee, said Wednesday that he asked Boehner not to consider him because of his plan to overhaul the budget process this fall. Aides to Boehner confirmed that to Fox News.

"This past year has shown that the federal budget process is more broken than ever and needs to be reformed," the Wisconsin congressman said in a written statement, showering praise on the three Republicans that Boehner chose -- Rep. Jeb Hensarling of Texas and Reps. Dave Camp and Fred Upton, both of Michigan.

"If we are truly going to put the country's fiscal house in order, it will not be enough to temporarily reduce what Washington spends," he said. "We must permanently reform the process by which working American’s hard-earned tax dollars are spent"

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: budget; entitlements; paulryan
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To: 08bil98z24

Bye Tard...


81 posted on 08/11/2011 11:27:56 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: humblegunner; Jim Robinson
LOL...

That's awesome...

Like trying to pass a finger painting by my three year old of as a Picasso. You can't improve on the original especially in the hands of amateurs...

82 posted on 08/12/2011 3:36:49 AM PDT by ejonesie22 (8/30/10, the day Truth won.)
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To: 08bil98z24
Free Republic is filled with countless idiots these days ...

and the white hut is full of jackasses like you.


83 posted on 08/12/2011 4:57:58 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Dear God, please let it rain in Texas. Amen.)
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To: humblegunner
You keep saying that, they keep doing it.. and it keeps on FAILING:

But it doesn't COST them as much as AIR AMERICA!

84 posted on 08/12/2011 4:58:38 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: Colofornian

Ol’ GW is still around, isn’t he?


85 posted on 08/12/2011 5:04:47 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: reaganaut

Welcome to the OPEN NOSE VOTER block.

I can see holding our nose and voting is useless. We don’t have to win by a landslide, we have to win by one vote.

I generally vote like a pirate, (R). I will not vote against my sensibilities again.

I have been wrong about some guys like Rubio, but I was right about McLame, Gaylord Crist, and SMel Martinez.


86 posted on 08/12/2011 10:46:43 AM PDT by Dominick ("Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought." - JP II)
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To: org.whodat
7 of 9, no her ex was jack, he was running against Obummer in the senate and would have beat him if not for the bogus sex story.

Obama never would have even ran, if the corrupt crooks that ran the Illinois GOP hadn't chased out the incumbent republican senator (and you can thank Mr. Dennis Hastert for that). Senator Fitzgerald was told point blank he was getting primaried, and that he still wound not have support even in the general election.

To this day, I will always curse the Illinois GOP, what they did to this country, is criminal, and they have blood on their hands for what Obama has wrought.

87 posted on 08/13/2011 10:57:47 PM PDT by Sonny M ("oderint dum metuant")
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To: Sonny M

Yes, sir, all true.


88 posted on 08/14/2011 1:31:42 AM PDT by org.whodat (What does the Republican party stand for////??? absolutely nothing.)
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