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General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: flowers on December 14, 2013, 12:15:18 am

Title: Paul Ryan makes nice with conservative groups after fractious budget vote
Post by: flowers on December 14, 2013, 12:15:18 am

http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/12/13/21893065-paul-ryan-makes-nice-with-conservative-groups-after-fractious-budget-vote?lite

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GOP coalition after Speaker John Boehner had lashed out at those same groups for opposing a bipartisan budget framework that Ryan had helped author.

“I think these are very important elements of our conservative family,” he told Meet the Press moderator David Gregory in an interview airing on Sunday. “I would prefer to keep those conversations within the family.”

After a week in Washington that had laid bare many of the familiar dividing that separate elected Republicans and their party's insurgent, conservative wing, Ryan made nice with many of the groups that had mobilized in opposition to the budget agreement he forged with Washington Democratic Sen. Patty Murray.

Title: Re: Paul Ryan makes nice with conservative groups after fractious budget vote
Post by: Atomic Cow on December 14, 2013, 12:16:53 am

And the horse you rode in on too, Paul.

Title: Re: Paul Ryan makes nice with conservative groups after fractious budget vote
Post by: flowers on December 14, 2013, 12:18:43 am

Quote from: Atomic Cow on December 14, 2013, 12:16:53 am

And the horse you rode in on too, Paul.

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