House Republicans in Revolt

Hear Hear! House Republicans in Revolt   If you're over sixty, your morning boner.

“   We're hearing that the Republican Study Committee and GOP freshmen were almost in open revolt at the Republican conference this morning over the initial round of cuts set out by Paul Ryan. The Ryan ceiling falls shorts of the headline number of $100 billion set out in the Pledge, and is therefore considered vastly insufficient. Says a source familiar with the meeting, "It sent a clear unequivocal message to leadership - ‘Houston, you've got a problem.'" The leadership assured conservatives at a RSC lunch later in the day that the message had been received. Says a GOP leadership aide, "The bill that passes the House will cut substantially more. [House Republicans in Revolt] ” For many of us, this is the first experience of seeing people we elected actually standing on the principles we elected them to stand for. Larwin's Lynx