Move over, Mitch! Paul Ryan lets slip secrets of how GOP will run the Senate

[DonViejo]

Paul Ryan vows the nuttiest House bills will make the president's desk if Mitch McConnell becomes majority leader

JOAN WALSH

Move over, Sen. Mitch McConnell! Rep. Paul Ryan is telling the world what you’ll do if Republicans take over the Senate.

It’s only fair, I guess, since Speaker Ted Cruz is running the House.

But seriously, who came up with this strategy, shared by McConnell, to drive a big midterm GOP victory by promising to move the political process from paralysis to rigor mortis? First McConnell told his paymasters, the Kochs, that he’ll court another government shutdown by attaching riders to spending bills that the president will almost certainly have to veto. After running that notion by the Kochs at their June retreat, and finding they liked it, McConnell brought it to Politico last month.

Now Ryan goes McConnell one better by telling The Hill’s Scott Wong that the Senate will take up unpopular House GOP legislation that Majority Leader Harry Reid has supposedly bottled up.

“Right now, Harry Reid is protecting the president from making difficult decisions, and I believe that we can unblock a number of things that should at least get to the president’s desk and make him make a decision,” Ryan promised.

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http://www.salon.com/2014/09/05/move_over_mitch_paul_ryan_lets_slip_secrets_of_how_gop_will_run_the_senate/

[unblock]

1. hey that's my name in print!

[Proud Liberal Dem]

2. Their ideas will be DOA in the WH

If they end up there at all. Hello gratuitous use of filibuster!

[blkmusclmachine]

3. And we can kiss SCOTUS replacements goodbye. The Court will go even further to the Right.

And that's all she wrote for our democracy, brother. The last nail in the coffin.

The strange thing is, I'm not seeing any sense of urgency or import for this election in November from our so-called "leaders" in DC.

MIA

[Arkana]

4. Yes, I'm sure the President will be so broken up

after vetoing the "Punish Abortion By Stoning Act of 2015" and the 50000th "Repeal Obamacare Because It Smells And Is Bad Act of 2015".

They think these would be tough decisions? Feh.