"Paul Ryan Rewrites His Government Shutdown Role"

[applegrove]

Paul Ryan Rewrites His Government Shutdown Role

by Arthur Delaney and Sam Stein at the Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/19/paul-ryan-government-shutdown_n_5691730.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

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In the days after the shutdown began, the House Budget Committee chair advocated tying the government shutdown fight to the federal government's looming credit default -- an idea that only raised the stakes of negotiations and ensured the shutdown would last at least another two weeks. In an Oct. 8 Wall Street Journal op-ed, he suggested reforming entitlements in exchange for raising discretionary spending levels.

Tea Party types weren't thrilled with the idea since it left intact the president's health care law, which had been the shutdown's raison d'etre. But reaction from the press corps was mixed. Some reporters hailed Ryan for starting a dialogue between House Republicans and the White House. Others saw it as a thinly disguised play for conservative policy reforms.

Either way, the shutdown continued. And in the subsequent days, Ryan dug in. The Washington Post reported on Oct. 12 that in a closed-door meeting, he railed against a bipartisan Senate deal to reopen the government, "saying the House could not accept either a debt-limit bill or a government-funding measure that would delay the next fight until the new year."

"According to two Republicans familiar with the exchange," the Post reported, "Ryan argued that the House would need those deadlines as 'leverage' for delaying the health-care law’s individual mandate and adding a 'conscience clause' -- allowing employers and insurers to opt out of birth-control coverage if they find it objectionable on moral or religious grounds -- and mentioned tax and entitlement goals Ryan had focused on in a recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal."




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[Rex]

1. Someone help me out here...was it this guy that got caught plagiarizing

quite a few articles from other writers?

[gordianot]

2. Mainly Ayn Rand and her juvenile fiction.

[applegrove]

3. No. I think that was someone else. Paul Ryan is in awe of his own

dam self and his ability to package crap as roses..