How Paul Ryan’s Disgrace Could Break The Deadlock In Washington, D.C.
Not sure that the Repubs will stop ever being obstructionist, even as a minority
http://www.nationalmemo.com/how-paul-ryans-disgrace-could-break-the-deadlock-in-washington-d-c/
From the moment Mitt Romney announced Ryan as his running mate, the congressman has been running from specifics of his famed Ryan Budgets, which had made him the darling of the conservative movement. This was to be expected… and a bit ironic, as Romney had adopted nearly all of Ryan’s ideas when his campaign was crumbling in the primary.
Ryan’s downfall began when his harmless fib about his marathon time was closely followed by a widely panned convention speech where his disregard for the truth came off as deliberate and invidious. This immediately cut into his image as someone who told “hard truths.” Instead he used half-truths and flat-out lies in order to make an unprincipled case against the president.
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If Romney and Ryan are roundly rejected, the notions of turning Medicare into a voucher system and gutting a trillion dollars from Medicaid to pay for more tax breaks should go down with them. Even more importantly, Ryan — who was one of the key figures in the House Republicans’ stand on the debt limit and rejecting President Obama’s “grand bargain” — will have been defeated by the president himself.
No one expects Republicans to then completely bend over for the president. But their leverage will be minimal to non-existent as we approach the so-called fiscal cliff.
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