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Speaker Paul Ryan
So, yesterday Speaker of the House Paul Ryan gave a press conference:
Any thoughts?
I thought it was impressive. I like the phrase, “The people’s house.” I like the idea of bills coming to the floor for debate, and bills being passed even if they don’t have a chance of being signed by the President. I like the idea that he wants the members to feel they’ve got a voice even if they’re not in leadership positions.
I don’t remember John Boehner giving weekly pressers. Which is probably a good thing, considering how weepy he is …
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Do you mean that you think you could sort of sneak the destruction of the welfare state past the electorate in maybe an even hundred years? Please explain how–I don’t mean, can you predict the future?
It seems pretty obvious to me that politicians like spending money & increasing gov’t better than the opposite. &, too, that the people have shown no great inclination to reward those who try to turn back the clock on Progress or punish those who want to keep things going as they have been.
I’d like at least the fiscal sense if not the size of government from before Progressives took over your politics & came up with such a strange welfare state. But I do not see a way there…
Just sounds like the regular GOPe line to me. We Surrender!
I think it will self-destruct and present some opportunities.
I’m not for surrendering. I think just looking at how the deficit has decreased should give GOP politicians heart to think about what more can be done. Things looked like going to hell in the fast lane a few years back…
But I do think first comes the persuading of the electorate & then the significant cuts in the various entitlements & whatever can be reformed in government.
I am in doubts as to whether the GOP really has set its heart on this matter. As I always say, look at what they’re willing to do for their electorate & the majority of the people on abortion & immigration. Nothing…
Exactly. Now we may be on some common ground. Isn’t your comment here exactly why we have Paul Ryan and not John Boehner. The Freedom Caucus must have seen at least some potential down the road with Ryan. And the first steps will be fiscal.
I think well of Speaker Ryan. He seems to be about the best the GOP has to offer right now. & Sen. Rubio. Both seem to disagree with the party on immigration; that’s at least in part a good thing in my book–at least it would be if they did not agree with the liberals…
I suppose we do have more than a little common ground. I think the question now is whether conservatives really get the American electorate or not. That to me is the test–electoral politics will reveal how serious people of whom we might approve take politics, as opposed to stories about principles & history.