House Conservatives to Paul Ryan: The Honeymoon’s Over ("no difference from Boehner")
Those were the words Idaho Republican Representative Raul Labrador, a leading member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, used Wednesday. And he and like-minded House members said 2016 is the year for Ryan to prove himself. Sending a repeal of the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) to the president, as the House did Wednesday evening, is only a start.
Ryan “needs to start putting up real conservative reform in the House and doing the things that are necessary to show the voters that he is a different speaker than [Ryan’s predecessor] John Boehner,” Labrador said at a monthly lunch with reporters. “Because, frankly, everything he has done so far is no different than what John Boehner would have done.”
Conservatives were pleased that the Republican-controlled Congress finally got an Obamacare repeal to the president’s desk—after dozens of attempts to repeal all or part of the 2010 law stalled. The Senate passed the repeal measure, which also defunds reproductive health provider Planned Parenthood, in December and the GOP-controlled House approved it Wednesday evening by a vote of 240 to 181. Just one Democrat voted for the bill—Minnesota Congressman Collin Peterson. Three Republicans voted against it.
House conservatives also plan to hold Ryan to his pledge of pushing “a bold, pro-growth agenda,” in 2016, as he laid out in a policy speech at the Library of Congress in December. “Even if [the president] won’t sign them into law, we will put out specific proposals and give the people a real choice,” Ryan said then. “And I don’t mean just undo what the president has done.... I mean show what we would do, what our ideal policy would be—looking forward to 2017 and beyond.” That includes a plan to replace Obamacare, overhaul the tax code and reform welfare.
http://www.newsweek.com/paul-ryan-honeymoon-republicans-over-412381
Ryan must not have expected the 'honeymoon' to last very long with this irrational bunch, but this was a quick end.
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