GOP Abandons Budget Plan, Realizes ‘Fiscal Hawk’ Ryan Is Full Of Crap

[Scuba]

http://youngprogressivevoices.com/2013/08/02/gop-abandons-budget-plan-realizes-fiscal-hawk-ryan-is-full-of-crap/

The GOP budget plan that was voted on by the House a few months ago has come to an abrupt, screeching halt as lawmakers are forced to recognize that it simply will not work. The Ryan budget was passed in the House along party lines last March — and almost didn’t pass at all, as 10 Republican representatives voted with the 197 Democrats against it, making the final vote tally 221-207. Hal Rogers, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, even went so far as to state, “I believe that the House has made its choice: sequestration – and its unrealistic and ill-conceived discretionary cuts – must be brought to an end.”

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And now, even the GOP is waking up. The Paul Ryan budget plan has fallen apart, after House Republicans realized they would not be able to get even close to the requisite number of votes. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) has said that the bill will be appropriated following the August recess, but other Republicans, including the House Appropriations Chairman, Hal Rogers, have indicated that is extremely unlikely.

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All of this is a harbinger for the coming fight over funding the government. If House Republicans can’t establish a position of their own, then the Senate will drive the whole process (its Transportation/HUD bill will probably pass on a bipartisan basis this week) and appropriations will be extended past September one way or another on the strength of Democratic votes.

It also suggests that the GOP’s preference for permanent sequestration-level spending, particularly relative to increasing taxes, is not politically viable. If they want to lift the defense cuts, they’re going to have to either return to budget negotiations with Democrats, or agree to rescind sequestration altogether. (Talking Points Memo)

[no_hypocrisy]

1. The House will keep the Ryan Plan vote alive indefinitely like repealing Obamacare.

Whether it passes is irrelevant. The republicans, particularly the Teabaggers want to show their constituents that they have been true to their promises to wreck the economy.

[NoMoreWarNow]

2. Gawd I hope so, but I feel like a lot of this is wishful thinking that the GOP will truly change

their tune.

[Thinkingabout]

3. Ryan could not have believed his budget was workable but it sure sounded like something the TP and

others who want to disrupt this administration. Now we have heard for several years now the Senate has not passed a budget and the Senate has now passed a budget we find lots of fumbling in the House. The House is divided in the Republican party and Boehner does not have the snap Nancy Pelosi was able to execute and he is just flopping in the wind. The ball is in his hands and he does not have the Republican votes to get things passed. No longer can it be said the GOP post the Democrats are not able to pass a budget.

[ancianita]

4. Probably since it's taken them years to learn how to think, unwilling to admit that the Left taught

them how to do math.

[Maraya1969]

5. So exactly how long did it take them to figure out the math doesn't work?

Bunch of stooges.

[libodem]

6. FN Finally

Dim wits.

[Scurrilous]

7. K & R