This is some great theater. Boehner is taking the bullet here for Ryan but Ryan himself is taking shots at a deal to take the pressure off of him. This is something that Ryan knows needs to happen but yet is coming out against. Typical GOP House politics. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure this is with Boehner's blessing. It makes sense for him to take the hit on this.
"Late last night, Congressional leaders and the White House reached a big deal to avert default and keep the government funded. Now it has to be sold to members of Congress in both parties, and conservatives are already revolting."
"The short version is that the debt limit will be raised and government will be funded for two years at higher-than-sequester levels, to be paid for by various spending cuts, including to entitlements. But an expert tells me that these cuts will not meaningfully harm Social Security or Medicare beneficiaries.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2015/10/27/morning-plum-a-temporary-outbreak-of-sanity-in-washington/
Sargent gets to the big question: who got what? The Dems get nondefense spending through the start of 2017 above sequester levels. The GOP gets the same on defense spending with a new contingency defense fund that raises the amount defense spending above non-defense spending.
Beyond that, both Dems and GOP leaders get an end to debt ceiling chicken and government shutdown chicken.
"Careful readers will note that I’m arguing that both Democrats and Republicans got an end to debt limit and government shutdown extortion. There has long been a dominant fiction in Washington that agreeing to lift the debt limit somehow constituted a concession on the part of Republicans for which they should be given something in return by Democrats. In reality, Republican leaders themselves have wanted the debt limit increased — because default would hurt the country — and have acquiesced in the manufacturing of debt ceiling crises mainly in a vain quest to placate conservatives by making it look as if the GOP is “fighting” Obama. Thus, both sides have now been liberated from the need to do this any longer. Meanwhile, both sides wanted the fix to Medicare Part B. Both got that."
As for those alarmists who would say Democrats are again acquiescing to cut Social Security?
"On Medicare and Social Security: Nancy Altman, the president of Social Security Works, a group that strenuously opposes benefits cuts and argues for their expansion, tells me that the deal “doesn’t actually cut benefits or really hurt beneficiaries who aren’t gaming the system.”
"Altman notes that Republicans had been threatening to demand serious Social Security and Medicare cuts in exchange for raising the debt limit, but adds this threat has been defused. “The hostage has been released,” Altman says.
Now the question is will this pass the House?
"It still remains to be seen whether today’s deal will pass Congress. But for now, it needs to be judged against the alternative: lower spending levels that would constitute a drag on the recovery; more debt limit and government shutdown crises, with a worst-case scenario involving widespread economic damage (which also could have hurt Dem chances in 2016); a deal in which benefits really were cut."
Indeed, So what is Ryan actually saying?
"Rep. Paul Ryan blasted Speaker John Boehner, Senate leadership and the White House for cutting a budget deal behind closed doors, saying the "process stinks."
"Ryan said he hasn't gone through the agreement, which was posted last night."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/paul-ryan-blasts-john-boehner-senate-white-house-budget-deal-215182#ixzz3pmHlooWx
But this kind of gives it away-he's carping about process as a way to mollify the Freedom Caucus. But in reality 'he hasn't read it yet' but when he does read it he may not be so negative.
"This is not the way to do the people's business," the Wisconsin Republican said. "And under new management we are not going to do the people's business this way. We are up against a deadline - that's unfortunate. But going forward we can't do the people's business. As a conference we should've been meeting months ago to discuss these things to have a unified strategy going forward."
"For Ryan, it's the clearest public split with Boehner thus far."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/paul-ryan-blasts-john-boehner-senate-white-house-budget-deal-215182#ixzz3pmITfcRH
Heh heh. I think this split with Boehner is kind of like Hillary's split with Obama on the TPP.
"Late last night, Congressional leaders and the White House reached a big deal to avert default and keep the government funded. Now it has to be sold to members of Congress in both parties, and conservatives are already revolting."
"The short version is that the debt limit will be raised and government will be funded for two years at higher-than-sequester levels, to be paid for by various spending cuts, including to entitlements. But an expert tells me that these cuts will not meaningfully harm Social Security or Medicare beneficiaries.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2015/10/27/morning-plum-a-temporary-outbreak-of-sanity-in-washington/
Sargent gets to the big question: who got what? The Dems get nondefense spending through the start of 2017 above sequester levels. The GOP gets the same on defense spending with a new contingency defense fund that raises the amount defense spending above non-defense spending.
Beyond that, both Dems and GOP leaders get an end to debt ceiling chicken and government shutdown chicken.
"Careful readers will note that I’m arguing that both Democrats and Republicans got an end to debt limit and government shutdown extortion. There has long been a dominant fiction in Washington that agreeing to lift the debt limit somehow constituted a concession on the part of Republicans for which they should be given something in return by Democrats. In reality, Republican leaders themselves have wanted the debt limit increased — because default would hurt the country — and have acquiesced in the manufacturing of debt ceiling crises mainly in a vain quest to placate conservatives by making it look as if the GOP is “fighting” Obama. Thus, both sides have now been liberated from the need to do this any longer. Meanwhile, both sides wanted the fix to Medicare Part B. Both got that."
As for those alarmists who would say Democrats are again acquiescing to cut Social Security?
"On Medicare and Social Security: Nancy Altman, the president of Social Security Works, a group that strenuously opposes benefits cuts and argues for their expansion, tells me that the deal “doesn’t actually cut benefits or really hurt beneficiaries who aren’t gaming the system.”
"Altman notes that Republicans had been threatening to demand serious Social Security and Medicare cuts in exchange for raising the debt limit, but adds this threat has been defused. “The hostage has been released,” Altman says.
Now the question is will this pass the House?
"It still remains to be seen whether today’s deal will pass Congress. But for now, it needs to be judged against the alternative: lower spending levels that would constitute a drag on the recovery; more debt limit and government shutdown crises, with a worst-case scenario involving widespread economic damage (which also could have hurt Dem chances in 2016); a deal in which benefits really were cut."
Indeed, So what is Ryan actually saying?
"Rep. Paul Ryan blasted Speaker John Boehner, Senate leadership and the White House for cutting a budget deal behind closed doors, saying the "process stinks."
"Ryan said he hasn't gone through the agreement, which was posted last night."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/paul-ryan-blasts-john-boehner-senate-white-house-budget-deal-215182#ixzz3pmHlooWx
But this kind of gives it away-he's carping about process as a way to mollify the Freedom Caucus. But in reality 'he hasn't read it yet' but when he does read it he may not be so negative.
"This is not the way to do the people's business," the Wisconsin Republican said. "And under new management we are not going to do the people's business this way. We are up against a deadline - that's unfortunate. But going forward we can't do the people's business. As a conference we should've been meeting months ago to discuss these things to have a unified strategy going forward."
"For Ryan, it's the clearest public split with Boehner thus far."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/paul-ryan-blasts-john-boehner-senate-white-house-budget-deal-215182#ixzz3pmITfcRH
Heh heh. I think this split with Boehner is kind of like Hillary's split with Obama on the TPP.
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