Veritas Salad

 Paul Ryan’s credibility  . . . Matthew Boyle reporting at Breitbart – link here:

Last week, Ryan helped muscle the “Bipartisan Budget Agreement,” a deal he cut with Senate Budget Committee chairwoman Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), through the House. The bill is expected to pass the Senate on Wednesday (it did).

To win the House GOP conference, Ryan used a series of talking points about the bill that were not accurate–as Breitbart News has detailed over the course of a series of stories. Ryan, according to Senate Budget Committee ranking member Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), used double counting techniques that Democrats employed with Obamacare. Ryan claimed the bill would result in $23 billion in deficit reduction when, in reality—after taking the double counting and the interest on borrowed money for new spending into account—it would end up increasing the deficit by at least $15.5 billion.

Ryan’s committee also published a document falsely claiming that disabled and injured veterans’ pensions would be protected from slashes in the Ryan-Murray budget, a claim Ryan’s spokesman admitted to Breitbart News was inaccurate. Ryan’s committee scrubbed the document of the false claim and his spokesman will not answer when asked repeatedly if Ryan or his committee told members of the House of Representatives of the error and correction before they voted for his deal with Murray.

Ryan to push immigration amnesty?  Republican leadership as manipulative as it wants to be. Timing will come into play here as it is widely reported that a specific bill will not be taken up in the Republican controlled House until primary season is largely over. From the same article by Matthew Boyle at Breitbart:

A GOP aide to a congressional committee said of Ryan’s radio comments that it is clear Ryan “is describing a ‘Gang of Eight’ style bill that has amnesty first and pointless triggers later” that is “a huge handout to big business, too.”

Ryan has not said that border security and interior enforcement must be implemented before any bills that deal with legalization of illegal aliens’ statuses or a massive increase in guest workers or legal immigration are taken up in the House.

The nine Republican Senators who voted for the Ryan-Murray debt bill. We appreciate that Senator Grassley opposed the bill  in the floor vote.  Three  Republicans voted to move the bill to final vote (thus serving as enablers) but voted no on final passage — Sens. Alexander, Blunt and Flake.  From The Blaze.

1.    Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.)
2.    Susan Collins (R-Maine)
3.    Orin Hatch (R-Utah)
4.    John Hoeven (R-N.D.)
5.    Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.)
6.    Ron Johnson (R-Wiss.)
7.    John McCain (R-Ariz.)
8.    Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska)
9.    Rob Portman (R-Ohio)

Speaker Boehner is furious, why he may even stamp his feet.

Notorious hatchet man and left winger John Podesta, of Clinton era fame, has been brought in by Obama, according to this report from Gary Bauer at Campaign for Working families, to present a “forceful unapologetic  and occasionally provocative application of White House power”  . . . rather than the mere regal edicts and dismissals we have grown to know and love.

Podesta recently said that the Obama White House should “focus on executive action given that they are facing a second term against a cult worthy of Jonestown in charge of one of the houses of Congress.” . . .

Speaker John Boehner’s office was furious about Podesta’s White House assignment. A spokesman for Boehner told reporters, ” . . . If this is the attitude of the new White House, it’s hard to see how the president gets anything done again.”

Podesta apologized after getting his licks in. Of course it was as authentic as Speaker Boehner’s commitment to actually stop anything.

DLH and R Mall

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