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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And promoted taxes with things like the recent hike on airlines ticket fees.
When the New Republic is putting out sympathy articles for any Republican then that person is part of the GOPe and absolutely useless. Now I get why Mittens has come out of hibernation. He’s pulling Paul Ryan’s strings and trying to lead the establishment back to the White House. We can’t let this happen again in two years.
Who?
“cutting spending a decade from now”
LOL!
... He voted for some representatives in the future to cut spending so he could end the sequester- now that’s irony!
Maybe Palin, she either(among) went under the shark, shot the shark or went in a skew path.
You may be right. Mitt the used car salesman is the GOPe front man for selling the used Edsel that is Paul Ryan. While everyone's wasting time arguing about Myth's comeback, he and Rove are stealthily maneuvering pretty boy Ryan. After all, it's "his turn".
Paul Ryan is a big-government RINO who would vote for illegal alien amnesty in a heartbeat.
PR is a protege of Bill Bennett, GOPe excuser. Apple:Tree
Really, if you start listing “worst disappointments”, the list will be too long to fit in the notebook.
His mentor Jack French Kemp was also a fake conservative who fooled even Bob Dole.
Getting snookered by the dumbest member of the U.S.Senate pretty well destroys his reputation as a brilliant policy wonk, doesn't it?
hope so. he deserves it. gave him one more chance after his idiotic tarp vote. not with amnesty.
dead. to. me. forever. will not support or help in any way. it’s not stupidity, which has a possibility of being corrected.
RINO Ryan:
* cuts the rate of increase in Federal spending,
* totals it up for ten years, at current conditions,
* caves in to Democrats whenever they object, in order to “get something done,”
* has NEVER proposed a year to year dollar spending REDUCTION!
BTW, if a CONSERVATIVE is supposed to CONSERVE, then what has RINO Ryan EVER conserved?
Actually, Paul Ryan likes the lobbyist money now.
Lotta money in being a member of the establishment.
Why was Paul Ryan ever associated with the tea party to begin with? He voted for the bankster bailouts (and would do so again).
Ryan is a walking and talking DemocRat. Patty Murray is smarter than this idiot.
Breaking news from 18 months ago.
Well DUH!
Ryan is hitching his wagon to amnesty and stabbing the American worker in the back as a sacrifice on the alter to big business. I don’t think we’ll see Ryan visiting Detroit proclaiming his pro amnesty positions are good for America’s unemployed.
F’em.
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