Posted on 08/22/2014 6:04:50 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
When Mitt Romney chose Representative Paul Ryan as his running mate in the 2012 presidential election, the tea party was ecstatic. "It's a big step toward what the tea party has been trying to accomplish," Matt Kibbe, the president and CEO of FreedomWorks, said at the time. "It gives people a reason to be more enthusiastic about the Republican ticket." But just two years later, Kibbe and his fellow tea party activists are singing a different tune: Ryan has betrayed the movement.
The first significant break between Ryan and the tea party came at the beginning of this year, when he collaborated with Senator Patty Murray, the Democratic chair of the Senate Budget Committee, on a budget that avoided another government shutdown. That deal replaced $65 billion of the sequester over the next two years by requiring federal workers to contribute more to their pensions, implementing new fees on airline tickets, and cutting spending a decade from now. While the deal actually reduced the deficit by $20 billion in total, the far right was furious. “It is disappointing to see Chairman Ryan forget lessons learned this past spring, when House Republicans united to win reasonable spending limits in the face of President Obama’s hysterical predictions that even modest cuts would harm our nation,” said Tim Phillips, the president of American for Prosperity. Erik Erickson, of Red State, wrote “Bend over America, here it comes.”
If Ryan hoped to recover any good will with his famous budget—the one he releases each year as head of the House Budget Committee—those hopes were quickly dashed. Sarah Palin called it “a joke” and other tea party leaders criticized it for insufficiently cutting spending. Those comments are tough to square with the previous praise tea party leaders have heaped on Ryan.
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PR jumped the shark at least a year ago.
Got it backwards...
No, Paul Ryan has deserted the tea party by his words and actions.
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which matters little compared with what the GOP-e does with him
My thoughts exactly
“IS abandonING”….?????????
WILDLY, WILDLY optimistic —foolishly so.
So much promise. So much wasted.
That’s what the left does.
They have embraced doublethink whole-heartedly. Next, Common Core will teach that 2 + 2 = 5.
When was Paul Ryan a part of the Tea Party? I think he blew that ticket right out of the box even before he was a VP candidate when he put forward his fantasy Economic program.
“is”? more like “has long ago”
Ryan became a great disappointment a long time ago.
Washington Pols (of any party): We’ll use anybody to get elected; and once there: #%$k them up the.......
Paul Ryan is one of my worst disappointments in the 20 years I’ve been a political junkie.
Is there anyone who will not jump the shark?
Paul Ryan was never part of tea party. More of a numbers wonk. As for Kibbe, he comes off as a weirdo. I have personally had it with these tea party “leaders” who are pocketing big coin as a self appointed spox for TP.
That ship sailed years ago.
Ryan was never Tea Party, he’s always been a fake “conservative” reformer, but if one has been paying attn. and actually looked at his vote. It’s been by an large establishment-RINO, liberal with a smattering of conservative covered by a mass media GOPe propaganda machine!
Ryan....that’s the guy who’s always in the gym looking at his reflection in the mirror. I remember him.
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