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Paul Ryan Vanishes In Fiscal Cliff Talks
Buzzfeed.com, by Rebecca Berg
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Posted By:happywarrior, 12/20/2012 7:23:27 PM
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| WASHINGTON — When Rep. Paul Ryan appeared on the House floor Thursday evening to ferry Republicans´ sequester replacement bill to a mostly symbolic passage, it was the the most famous House Republican´s first, brief moment in the spotlight during negotiations to avert the fiscal cliff. On Monday evening, those negotiations were heating up anew: President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner had met earlier at the White House, where Obama presented Boehner with his latest counteroffer.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
rocket-j-squirrel, 12/20/2012 7:38:57 PM (No. 9076820)
I guess Rebecca didn´t watch Ryan eviscerate the stupid ´Rat at the end of the debate. Nice try, Becky (may I call you that?) you can, like, you-tube it, or like, go to C-Span, or like, read the following comments on this thread.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
chiller, 12/20/2012 8:09:22 PM (No. 9076833)
Ryan´s absence tells me he was not totally on board with Plan B. Now that its failed, we might look to Ryan as Speaker.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Coy860, 12/20/2012 8:15:20 PM (No. 9076836)
Amen #2, Amen !!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
King of all trolls, 12/20/2012 8:19:03 PM (No. 9076839)
If Paul Ryan could not best Joe Biden in a debate, he has no business even dreaming of being Speaker of the House. Boehner is going a good job pushing the Pelosi plan. To the few of us paying attention, it´s making Dear Leader´s position appear unreasonable.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
otronome, 12/20/2012 8:55:59 PM (No. 9076874)
I assume that he will run for Speaker of the new Congress and I believe he will win. There s no reason to trash a feloow Republica who supported your rise in the House and run for the VP
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
killerbee, 12/20/2012 9:09:47 PM (No. 9076888)
#4: He did best the giggling maniac in the debate. Unless you didn´t watch it and got the "analysis" from MSNBCNNABCBS. Or the NY Times. The fact that Biden was aggressive made the base go nuts. But he was a psycho.
Boehner is not doing well, IMO, but I´ll be honest, I could be reacting to the media spin. I´d love to see Ryan as speaker. He says what he means and means what he says.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
navybrat, 12/20/2012 9:13:00 PM (No. 9076891)
Hopefully, if Boehner will not resign as speaker he will be voted down. If Ohio keeps electing him we cannot stop that, but we can vote in enough conservations that he will not have a leadership position since he has proven that he is NO leader.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Kansas Conservative, 12/20/2012 9:14:52 PM (No. 9076892)
Ryan is completely ineffective. He didn´t win the debate against Biden, and he didn´t even win his home state of Wisconsin for the GOP ticket in the presidential election. I find him to be a spoiled, incompetent congressional retard (like the rest of them).
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
lancer12, 12/20/2012 9:34:08 PM (No. 9076907)
This will be a miserable disaster no matter what adjustments. Why have Republican fingerprints all over it? "I had such a wonderful program to give everthjng to all of you and those evil people destroyed it ."
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Ladyhawke, 12/20/2012 9:42:35 PM (No. 9076912)
I would love to see Steve Forbes as Speaker!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
smcchk, 12/20/2012 10:05:36 PM (No. 9076933)
#8, I wonder what you base your criticism of Rep.Ryan on? He´s been my Congressman since the 90´s and a harder worker and more sincere man you could not find! When he is back in Wisconsin, he is tireless, with town hall meetings, countless meet and greets. We have always wondered how he keeps up? And no one has put their heart and soul into working out a meaningful, long-term budget plan. I think that Boehner is taking the flak for now so that Ryan can run again for higher office. Just my opinion.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
annie xango, 12/21/2012 12:14:21 AM (No. 9077016)
#8 you must have watched a different debate than we did???? Ineffective??? Really? Really?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
ladychatalie, 12/21/2012 4:32:20 AM (No. 9077126)
#4, you say "to the few of us paying attention" and that´s the reason why the ploy of supporting Pelosi´s plan is worse than meaningless. The people you hope to woo with this strategy do not listen to you. They listen to the MSM who will say whatever democrats tell them to say. The point was already made that Obama and Reid will support nothing and force us over the "fiscal cliff" when Obama said he would veto Pelosi´s plan. Why carry the ploy further? Republicans should not jump first without even grabbing the Democrats hands before committing political suicide. What this should be about is cutting taxes and spending.
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