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Mon Dec 16, 2013, 01:53 PM Dec 2013

Note to Boehner - Paul Ryan is for Paul Ryan, nobody else

There has been a lot of media noises that Paul Ryan is a favorite of Boehner, that he is the next Boehner, that Boehner trusts him (all the noises that our liberal media love to make rather than dealing with issues).

Well, if Boehner believes that, he is clearly wrong. Just a few days after the budget was voted in the House and all the media proclaimed Ryan the savior of the Republican party, Ryan goes on TV and says Boehner did not mean what he said and was just a little bit "emotional".

(Emotional, you know, like women, as would say some Republican candidates).

So, Boehner should be careful. He may find that he has another back-stabber in his caucus, and one that is good at it.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/paul-ryan-no-gop-civil-war-boehner-just-got-emotional


House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) told a Wisconsin-based radio station on Monday that there is no GOP "civil war" over the bipartisan budget deal he struck, despite tea party opposition.

He downplayed Speaker John Boehner's fierce criticism of outside conservative groups who bashed the agreement -- the Ohio Republican said last week they've "lost all credibility."

"I think John's emotions got ahead of him a bit," Ryan told 620WTMJ radio's Charles Sykes.

"I credit the tea party with helping get our mojo back," he said, calling the outside groups "absolutely essential" to the conservative agenda.
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