...the family feud that is the House GOP.

[babylonsister]

Paul Ryan Breaks Rank

by John Batchelor

The GOP's fiscal star skipped the Pledge to America rollout. John Batchelor talks to Republicans who say Ryan's peeved his ideas were bypassed—and reports more turmoil on the right.



Handsome, precious Paul Ryan, six-term Republican from the safe-as-apple-pie Janesville, Wisconsin, has fallen into a pout that worries his friends and entertains his enemies in the family feud that is the House GOP.

Ryan, 40, is supposed to be the bullet-proof numbers guy, ranking on the House Budget Committee, who is eager to take the chairmanship in the new Congress following the promised wave election; he is supposed to be the gifted ingénue who spent these last years in the minority bent over his spread sheets while he tweaked his grindingly wonkish genius of 2008, “A Roadmap for America’s Future.”

Instead, the Paul Ryan talked about these days on the Hill is withdrawn, conflicted, chagrined, and unavailable. And most importantly, he was missing in action last week at the ballyhooed Republican roll-out of “The Pledge to America” in a Virginia hardware store.

Why was Ryan a no-show? Ryan’s flacks claim his absence was a scheduling problem, which is a deliberately uncreative excuse. Ryan’s allies say he skipped the event because he’s genuinely stumped about why the leadership ignored his celebrated “Roadmap” that lays out a utopia in which America would solve health care, Social Security, taxes and jobs with Leprechaun dust and diligence. Nothing of Ryan’s years of homework is to be found in the “Pledge,” and the absence is so obvious that the whispering is that Ryan is either in fresh disfavor or worse, self-exile.

“He’s been very coy,” says an ally. “He’s not talked in about a month. He’s caught in the middle. He doesn’t know what to do. They ignored his Roadmap.”

Another ally is more mocking: “His scene got left on the cutting room floor.”

Says another observer: “Boehner, Cantor and McCarthy didn’t think as much of his ‘Roadmap’ as the (Wall Street) Journal does. (They think) it’s a ‘Roadmap’ to the minority.”

One critic says of Ryan’s relationship with Boehner, “He wants more love from Daddy.” :rofl:

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-09-26/why-paul-ryan-skipped-the-gop/

[malaise]

1. Come on ReTHUGS

Eat him on live TV :rofl:

[monmouth]

2. Cantor has Boner's ear and a large portion of his a$$... What Cantor

wants, Cantor will get whichever way that may be. If I were Boner, I'd watch him very closely...

[babylonsister]

3. I agree, cantor, as slimy as he is, is dangerous, but I think

he emulates boner. They're both real creeps in my book. :scared:

[ThoughtCriminal]

4. Ryan made the mistake of listing specific policies

The GOP absolutely cannot have the media or the public actually look at what their ideology applied to policy would actually do. If that ever happened, the republicans would be be a 5th-place fringe party by 2012.