Republican vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin (Mary Altaffer - AP)
A once-promising relationship with President Obama that soured: In January 2010, Obama visited the House Republican retreat, where he said he agreed with some ideas in Ryan’s budget proposal and even signed an autograph for Ryan’s young daughter. But over time, the promise for a working bipartisan relationship gave way to bickering. There were two turning points: First, then-White House budget director Peter Orszag blasted Ryan’s plan in a 2010 press briefing. Then, in April 2011, two days before Ryan’s budget passed the House, Obama ripped the proposal in a speech at George Washington University. The move surprised and irked Ryan:Ryan sat in the front row as the President shredded his plan. “I believe it paints a vision of our future that’s deeply pessimistic,” Obama said. “There’s nothing serious about a plan that claims to reduce the deficit by spending a trillion dollars on tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires. And I don’t think there’s anything courageous about asking for sacrifice from those who can least afford it and don’t have any clout on Capitol Hill.”Tension with Boehner: In 2011, Ryan’s growing influence within the party and alignment with House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia and the self-proclaimed “Young Guns” in the House GOP meant headaches for the House speaker in the deficit negotiations. Speaker John Boehner’s chief of staff would cast blame on Ryan, according to a 2012 book:Ryan had aligned himself with Cantor and the self-proclaimed Young Guns, who made life miserable for Boehner, their nominal leader. They were the most enthusiastic supporters of the Ryan plan, while Boehner had publicly criticized it. Cantor’s aides quietly promoted stories about Boehner’s alleged squishiness on issues dear to conservatives, and encouraged Capitol Hill newspapers to consider the idea that Cantor would one day replace Boehner. As the Republican negotiations with the White House fizzled in the summer of 2011, Barry Jackson, Boehner’s chief of staff and a veteran of the Bush White House and Republican politics, blamed not just Cantor, who in media accounts of the failed deal often plays the role of villain, but Ryan as well.
is the tattered sheet of republican infighting holes getting large enough to afford us a view? maybe alls not well in Mudville. i've said before L'il Ricky Cantor was eyeing the Speaker position and look closely he always has that right wing crap eating grin on his face. like he knows something Beohner doesn't. remember Cantor did not want to give his home state Va. disaster help until he knew how he could pay for it. shameful let his constituents flounder, but spend millions trying to stall Holder from exposing their voter fraud, did he assk Issa HOW HE WAS GOING TO PAY FOR IT?
And once again in 2010:
In July, Boehner distanced himself from the plan. But Ryan’s outside-in strategy, of building support among conservatives who would pressure Republican leaders to embrace his ideas, started to pay off. An editorial in the Weekly Standard stated that “Republicans should embrace Ryan’s Road Map.” Dick Armey, the former congressional leader, who had become a Tea Party organizer, demanded that Republicans have the “courage” to back Ryan’s plan. Boehner’s position insured that most Republican candidates didn’t listen to Armey’s advice, and in 2010 they campaigned against Obama’s alleged cuts to Medicare rather than for Ryan’s plan to end the program.
and as it is now the T-Per's dictate to the scared silly republican portion of the clan. "their way or swim with the fishes"
