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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMedia darling and Very serious wonk Paul Ryan votes NO to debt ceiling increase.
Vote note finished but at this point only 28 GOP voted YES (roll call to come).
I wonder what the MSM will tell us about him tonight. Probably nothing.
Note: It should be a surprise for nobody as he has repeatedly voted against increases, including for the final vote for the shutdown, but he will save the GOP or so have we been told.
Mass
(27,315 posts)Only 28 of them voted for increasing the debt ceiling.
http://www.nationaljournal.com/congress/house-quickly-votes-to-raise-the-debt-ceiling-then-heads-home-20140211
After a tumultuous 24-hours of wrangling within the Republican caucus, the House passed a clean debt ceiling increase with surprisingly little drama Tuesday afternoon, 221-201. Speaker John Boehner, Majority Leader Eric Cantor, and Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy voted for the increase. House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan, on the other hand, voted against the bill.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Mass
(27,315 posts)As did Walden, head of the Republican Congressional Committee.
So, leadership could not even get their own guys in a row?
okaawhatever
(9,462 posts)conservative districts voting no and the rest voting yes.
NutmegYankee
(16,201 posts)I guess Patty was a Dem.
notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)Mass
(27,315 posts)This goes a long way to show the power of totally artificial memes, something we also saw last week, when pundits were saying Paul Ryan did something good when asking to the CBO to confirm we were talking about workers working less voluntarily.
Sorry, guys. Paul Ryan is nowhere near reasonable. Anybody who has looked at his record (and not at the media and conservatives' meme) knows that he was NEVER going to vote to raise the debt ceiling.
And anybody who knows anything about Paul Ryan understands that his comment about workmen working less (rather than jobs lost) was not about telling the truth, but about taking about the poverty trap and how helping poor people creates poverty (and slavery as some people agreeing with Ryan but less careful of their words would say).
I know that I will have to write this again and again, but I am frankly fed up by this idea and wished that, at least, progressive blogs try to report correctly about Paul Ryan and ITS IDEOLOGY. He is not evil. He is extremely conservative and libertarian on economic issues.