{"id":1310,"date":"2015-12-26T21:01:40","date_gmt":"2015-12-27T03:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/guyandrewhall.com\/?p=1310"},"modified":"2015-12-26T21:01:40","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T03:01:40","slug":"is-anyone-really-surprised-by-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guyandrewhall.com\/?p=1310","title":{"rendered":"Is Anyone Really Surprised By This?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PaulRyanBeard\"Outside the Beltway, the right is livid with new Speaker Paul Ryan\u2019s trillion-dollar spending deal with Democrats.<\/em><\/p>\n

Conservative pundit Ann Coulter says Ryan, just seven weeks on the job, is ripe for a primary challenge. \u201cPaul Ryan Betrays America,\u201d blared a\u00a0headline\u00a0on the conservative site Breibart.com. And Twitter is littered with references to the Wisconsin Republican\u2019s new \u201cMuslim beard.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Source: Fury of the right falls on Ryan | TheHill<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Did anyone think that Paul Ryan had a chance of herding the Republican cats in the House? If so, I’d say you should go back to huffing exhaust fumes.<\/p>\n

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But in a nod to the critics, Ryan has also emphasized that he \u201cinherited\u201d the flawed omnibus from his predecessor, ousted Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), and that the cake was \u201calready baked\u201d by the time he was handed the reins in late October.<\/p>\n

Those arguments have done little to sway some of Ryan\u2019s critics, particularly on conservative talk radio.<\/p>\n

Laura Ingraham denounced the spending package as an \u201comni-bust\u201d and said<\/a> Ryan should be \u201cregarded as a declared enemy of the Base.”\u00a0 Mark Levin said Ryan is “already a disaster\u201d and criticized the funding package for increasing the number of visas for foreign workers.<\/p>\n

Criticism has also come from Rush Limbaugh, the king of conservative talk radio, who declared that the<\/a> GOP sold the country \u201cdown the river.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

There is no chance in hell that the Republicans in the House are going to be able to work together and accomplish anything remotely resembling sane government. The remnants of the Tea Bagger……. err, I mean Tea Party brigade are as yet uncowed, and still of sufficient numbers to stonewall any attempts at serious compromise; especially when egged on by the hard right conservative pundits. That Ryan didn’t dismantle the bi-partisan coalition allowing for the passage of the budget at least shows he wants to be productive. But he doesn’t have the numbers, any more than John Boehner did, to be strictly partisan in running the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n

In the end it all comes down to whether the hard-line conservatives want to have total, uncompromising power, or whether they want to be leaders. They can’t have it both ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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