Over at Breitbart, Neil Munro lays out all the proof you need that Paul Ryan’s budget deal is an abject disaster: Democrats basically dancing in the streets, celebrating like they had the best Christmas of their lives:
Democratic leaders are unanimous in declaring a complete victory over House Speaker Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)58%
and his close allies, who wrote the $1.1 trillion omnibus budget without asking House conservatives for any input — or even for some public objections to help their closed-door negotiations.The Democrats’ victory, and Republican Ryan’s defeat, was garishly displayed when his omnibus got more Democratic votes in the House and in the Senate than it got Republican votes.
“I said I would not accept a lot of [conservative] ideological riders that were attached to a big budget deal,” President Barack Obama said Friday, at his end-of-year press conference. “And because of some terrific negotiations by the Democrats up on Capitol Hill and I think some pretty good work by our legislative staff here… it was a good win,” he said. “We met our goals,” he said.
In 2015, “we wanted to get rid of sequestration, we were able to do that,” gloated the Democrats’ leader in the Senate, Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV)2%
. “We wanted to make sure there is parity between defense and the middle class, we wanted to make sure that we kept these poison pills off the legislation… All three goals we had, we accomplished,” he said. Ryan’s omnibus deal “caps off a successful year for Senate Democrats,” he added.“Well, if you would’ve told me this year that we’d be standing here celebrating the passage of an omnibus bill, with no poison pill riders, at higher [spending] levels above sequesters than even the president requested, I wouldn’t have believed it, but here we are,” Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer told reporters shortly after the $1.1 trillion omnibus bill was passed.
“Almost anything, the Republican leadership in the Senate achieved this year, they achieved on Democratic terms… Democrats had an amazingly good year,” he declared.
Ryan initially claimed that he didn’t want the job, and this seems like good evidence to support that conclusion. But one would think that if the Wisconsin congressman were going to fight over anything, it would be budgets, a Ryan strength. Instead he gave away the store, handing Democrats their entire agenda without a fight. No wonder movements are popping up to primary him as we speak.
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