{"id":135658,"date":"2017-12-14T15:41:41","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T22:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135658"},"modified":"2017-12-15T00:46:02","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T07:46:02","slug":"paul-ryan-prepares-go-bang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/14\/paul-ryan-prepares-go-bang.html","title":{"rendered":"Paul Ryan prepares to go out with a bang"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a lot of inside baseball in this article about the workings of the GOP House caucus, their various factions, their internecine struggles — and about Paul Ryan’s rumored plan to leave Congress after next year, and to cap his career with both a massive tax reform bill (likely, but by no means guaranteed, to succeed) and the brutal social program cuts that have always been Ryan’s highest calling as a disciple of Ayn Rand.<\/p>\n

But a lot of what it says makes sense to me from my own observations of the GOP and Washington. And, if it’s accurate, next year is going to be a major high stakes war on what this nation means and whom it serves.<\/p>\n

How much of it is true? How much of it will Ryan actually be able to make happen? Tune in a year from now when we’ll have all found out …<\/p>\n


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There’s a lot of inside baseball in this article about the workings of the GOP House caucus, their various factions, their internecine struggles — and about Paul Ryan’s rumored plan to leave Congress after next year, and to cap his career with both a massive tax reform bill (likely, but by no means guaranteed, to … Continue reading “Paul Ryan prepares to go out with a bang”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,528,1140,9,358,376],"tags":[125,1374],"class_list":["post-135658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-economic-justice","category-elections-2018","category-politics-law","category-poor-citizenship","category-taxing-spending","tag-gop","tag-paulryan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/paul-ryan-2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133007,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/09\/paul-ryan-plays-chicken-with-his-gop-health-insurance-bill.html","url_meta":{"origin":135658,"position":0},"title":"Paul Ryan plays chicken with his GOP health insurance bill","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 9-Mar-17 2:34pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Essentially, Ryan is telling conservative voting blocs in the House (and Senate, indirectly) to pass his proposal or have the consequences be on their heads, but that he won't allow it to be substantially amended.Conservatives in the House, meanwhile, continue to kvetch that the AHCA is \"Obamacare Lite\" and contains\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":130632,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/05\/09\/forgive-me-a-little-political-schadenfreude-over-the-gop-infighting.html","url_meta":{"origin":135658,"position":1},"title":"Forgive me a little political schadenfreude over the GOP infighting","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 9-May-16 7:25am","format":false,"excerpt":"After decades of astonishing party discipline, watching the GOP apparently fall apart over this year's presidential election is both refreshing and amusing. 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