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(3,910 posts) Fri Oct 30, 2015, 02:52 PM Oct 2015

Paul Ryan Is The New House Speaker? The Next 12 Months Will Be Torture

The budget deal passed this week had less to do with the budget than it did with clearing the path for newly elected House Speaker Paul Ryan to use the House to pass all sorts of extremist conservative legislation. We’re in for a rough 12 months, and the best we can hope for is a strong Democratic turnout in 2016 that shifts the balance of power in the House.

Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.

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Paul Ryan Is The New House Speaker? The Next 12 Months Will Be Torture (Original Post) GoLeft TV Oct 2015 OP

Watch out for the Koch Brothers Wellstone ruled Oct 2015 #1

Paul Ryan is a flake PatrynXX Oct 2015 #2

Hell yeah... czarjak Oct 2015 #3

what does he mean by they are going to pillage SS payments? passiveporcupine Oct 2015 #4

Wellstone ruled

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1. Watch out for the Koch Brothers

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Fri Oct 30, 2015, 03:51 PM

Oct 2015

bringing Wisconsin type of legislation to Congress. They just announced a slush fund of 150 million to adjust attitudes toward more John Bircher Ideas(Libertarian).