Not nearly as sophisticated and well-funded as the Republican effort to destroy Democratic contenders.
That's the way it is these days, son.
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Not nearly as sophisticated and well-funded as the Republican effort to destroy Democratic contenders.
That's the way it is these days, son.
Prove it! show me the numbers!
Oh, this will be rich. *waits patiently*
BTW - thank you for calling us sophisticated.
You've never heard of the Koch brothers? Sheldon Adelson? Karl Rove? Rupert Murdoch?
Really?
I'm no mathematician but I'm pretty sure your post is completely devoid of the NUMBERS he requested.
It sounds more as if Republicans are bent on destroying each other.
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Paul Ryan Takes On Stubborn GOP Orthodoxy:
WASHINGTON (AP) — As Congress hurtled toward a government shutdown in the fall of 2013, Rep. Paul Ryan looked around at fellow Republicans who were agitating to shutter national parks, federal agencies and Head Start programs.
"This can't be the full measure of our party and our movement," Ryan writes of that moment in his new book, released Tuesday. "If it is, we're dead and the country is lost."
For instance, Ryan singles out the government shutdown in the fall of 2013. Led by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, tea partyers refused to continue funding the government unless the president agreed to repeal his signature health care law — a proposition that was never going to happen. As a result the government shuttered for 16 days and the Republican brand took a massive hit in voters' eyes.
Ryan recalls being summoned back to the Capitol from a dinner with his cousin. House Speaker John Boehner wanted to meet with his inner-circle. Boehner was already smoking when Ryan arrived, and the budget chief recognized that as a bad sign.
Ryan tried to sway fellow conservatives to drop demands that would prompt a shutdown. "It was a suicide mission," Ryan writes, but one that many members were unwilling to write off for fear outside tea party groups would deem them squishy.
In a separate, earlier episode, Ryan says he joined a 2001 meeting with then-Vice President Dick Cheney to talk about what the new Bush administration should prioritize. Ryan said he made a two-minute case for Social Security reform, saying that a budget surplus had created a huge opportunity.
Cheney, as Ryan tells it, dismissed that idea as though it was an annoying mosquito, not a policy option.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/19/paul-ryan-book_n_5690032.html
Lol . . . Boehner was already smoking when Ryan arrived , and the budget chief recognized that as a bad sign.
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Paul Ryan Takes On Stubborn GOP Orthodoxy:
WASHINGTON (AP) — As Congress hurtled toward a government shutdown in the fall of 2013, Rep. Paul Ryan looked around at fellow Republicans who were agitating to shutter national parks, federal agencies and Head Start programs.
"This can't be the full measure of our party and our movement," Ryan writes of that moment in his new book, released Tuesday. "If it is, we're dead and the country is lost."
For instance, Ryan singles out the government shutdown in the fall of 2013. Led by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, tea partyers refused to continue funding the government unless the president agreed to repeal his signature health care law — a proposition that was never going to happen. As a result the government shuttered for 16 days and the Republican brand took a massive hit in voters' eyes.
Ryan recalls being summoned back to the Capitol from a dinner with his cousin. House Speaker John Boehner wanted to meet with his inner-circle. Boehner was already smoking when Ryan arrived, and the budget chief recognized that as a bad sign.
Ryan tried to sway fellow conservatives to drop demands that would prompt a shutdown. "It was a suicide mission," Ryan writes, but one that many members were unwilling to write off for fear outside tea party groups would deem them squishy.
In a separate, earlier episode, Ryan says he joined a 2001 meeting with then-Vice President Dick Cheney to talk about what the new Bush administration should prioritize. Ryan said he made a two-minute case for Social Security reform, saying that a budget surplus had created a huge opportunity.
Cheney, as Ryan tells it, dismissed that idea as though it was an annoying mosquito, not a policy option.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/19/paul-ryan-book_n_5690032.html
Lol . . . Boehner was already smoking when Ryan arrived , and the budget chief recognized that as a bad sign.
.Typical Washington insider memoir: "If only those fools had done it my way.Blah blah blah me me me...The End"