House Speaker Paul Ryan is pushing out a detailed Republican platform

[mitty14u2]

Source: Bloomberg

House Speaker Paul Ryan is pushing out a detailed Republican platform
that hews to conservative orthodoxy in an election year when Donald Trump has found success in being unorthodox and vague. It’s an unusual move — a top lawmaker trying to set the party’s agenda ahead of the presidential nominee. When Ryan releases the fifth of his six-part policy agenda tomorrow — on replacing President Obama’s health-care law — will Trump continue to ignore the plan altogether? Maybe that’s the point. Trump’s lack of policy experience could actually open up legislative possibilities for Ryan, and a separate policy agenda arguably distances Ryan from a controversial nominee.






Read more: Bloomberg http://about.bgov.com/blog/paul-ryan-is-pushing-out-a-detailed-republican-platform/

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Beware of LIBERTARIAN Paul Ryan! Funded by Libertarians The Koch Bros.

Who is Paul Ryan really? He is a nobody catapulted past a Tea Party full of nobodies with Billionaire donors, pull back the layers of a man in a suit that consistently trying to look presidential. Ryan is doing everything a man that will come in like a Republican Superman to save the Party from a guy named Trump.
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Ryan is issuing a six-volume policy agenda for House colleagues to campaign on ahead of November elections. The fifth part, to be announced Wednesday, focuses on replacing President Barack Obama’s health-care law. That will be followed by a final chapter of proposed tax changes

from Bloomberg news to http://finance.yahoo.com/news/ryan-carves-conservative-path-trump-090000284.html

[arcane1]

1. He's funded by Apple, too

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. No. You misread the news story about Apple. But Cook is a fool to host the fundraiser. . . nt

[GreatGazoo]

21. and someone is polling Ryan vs Hillary this week

A Ryan Kasich ticket versus Hillary

http://hotair.com/archives/2016/06/20/hmmm-someone-out-there-is-polling-a-paul-ryanhillary-clinton-race/

[TeamPooka]

2. The Trump Puppet Presidency. And Ryan is the Trumpetteer pulling the strings. haha nt

[Angry Dragon]

3. Why does he get to use his office to live in??

[FSogol]

4. Will it be blank like the other Ryan Plans?

[bucolic_frolic]

5. He's a Developer, no? Just like Trump. Heavy equipment is the family business?

I think he's hedging his bets. The Minuteman Candidate. Just in case
the convention dumps Trump.

[global1]

6. Don't Be Surprised If Ryan Emerges As The Repug Nominee...

at the convention. He keeps saying he is not interested in being president but I think he really wants it. I think his setting out this platform is signaling the Party that he would be able to step into the nominee's role.

[Juicy_Bellows]

7. With the scheduled Apple fundraiser it wouldn't surprise me at all. NT.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. Wrong. You misread the article. Apple has nothing to do with it. But Cook is a fool.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141495977

[Juicy_Bellows]

17. Okey dokey!

"Still, the move reflects Apple’s desire to court Republican and Democratic officeholders alike, even at a time when it has serious reservations about Trump, the GOP's presumptive presidential nominee. "

Happy to be wrong, chief!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

20. "reflects" does not equal "paying, running, or endorsing the event

"Cook is hosting the fundraiser on his own accord, as Apple does not have a corporate political action committee"

[GreatGazoo]

22. If the CEO of the company is hosting a fund raiser then it has Apple's blessings

Corporations buy access and write US laws.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

23. Nope. CEOs are people too.

Yes, corps buy access and have a big role in writing US laws.

But it is not an Apple fundraiser.

[GreatGazoo]

24. CEOs are hired and fired at the will of the BoD. Your insistance that this has nothing to do with

Apple is unfounded. It has everything to do with Apple and it is no secret:

Politico:

Apple CEO Tim Cook will host a fundraiser with House Speaker Paul Ryan next week as the iPhone maker tries to strengthen its relationships with key Republicans — despite its decision to pull support for the GOP convention because of its distaste for Donald Trump.
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the move reflects Apple’s desire to court Republican and Democratic officeholders alike

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/tim-cook-apple-paul-ryan-fundraiser-224554#ixzz4CJXtNkgr

Also, Apple was attacked by Trump who called for a boycott:

http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/06/20/tim-cook-to-host-fundraiser-for-house-speaker-paul-ryan-other-republicans

[Bernardo de La Paz]

25. Yours & my opinion are worth as much as a random commentator's opinion. tRump can attack anybody

... and does.

No facts have been offered as evidence that this might be an official Apple-endorsed event. Just commentary guessing at it.

[GreatGazoo]

27. It isn't opinion that Apple's Treasurer is co-hosting this event next week

Cook will help generate cash for Ryan at a private breakfast on June 28 in Menlo Park, Calif., along with Gary Wipfler, the company’s treasurer,

And it isn't "random commentators" -- these people work for major news outlets, they have editors and a whole heirarchy (just like corporations do). The politics of CEOs can help or hurt their employers and when they hurt them...

Mozilla's Brendan Eich stepped down Thursday as CEO, just days after his appointment. He left the nonprofit maker of the Firefox browser after furious attacks, largely on Twitter, over his $1,000 contribution to support of a now-overturned 2008 gay-marriage ban in California.

INTEL cancelled a similar fundraiser for Trump over concerns that such endorsement would reflect poorly on a company which embraces diversity:
http://www.siliconbeat.com/2016/06/02/intel-ceo-cancels-trump-fundraiser-says-hes-not-endorsing-a-presidential-candidate/

The CEO of Marvel gave $1 mil to Trump prompting calls for boycotts of Marvel:
http://www.dailydot.com/politics/marvel-ceo-trump-fundraiser/

That isn't opinion, that is the way things work.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

28. Ah, finally, some facts. Thanks. . . . nt

[Cosmocat]

14. No, he won't be the nominee

He does in fact REALLY want POTUS, which is why there is no chance he would enter in this clusterfuck.

Taking the nomination from Trump will turn the convention into the most chaotic, and potentially violent, political event our country has ever seen, it will badly fracture the party and de-legitimize whoever comes away as the nominee. He or she will have a VERY long shot at winning.

Ryan is young, and has the second most powerful position in this country. No reason to have his political career defined by that kind of disaster.

He can wait four years and will have the kind of status within his party and the breathless adoration of the feckless political media to make a run at Hillary, presumably.

[sofa king]

8. Oh, like that detailed budget he has yet to write?

[Javaman]

11. I can sum it up in one sentence...

screw the poor and cut taxes to the rich.

in other words: nothing new.

[forest444]

13. With heaping helping of pork and gravy for the MIC.

Plenty of $600 toilet seats and trillion-dollar planes that can't fly in the rain.

[Hoppy]

16. ---- add, free gunz for everybody (except Muslims).

[TheCowsCameHome]

12. Yeah: Complete with a hangman's noose and trap door.

[asiliveandbreathe]

15. Plagerized from ayn rand fur sur!!!

Aynryanrand - the young guns - this physical trainer turned SOH - how cool!!!! Here I've come to save the day - mighty ryan, on the way - POS!

[DallasNE]

18. Speaker Paul Ryan Just Doesn't Get It

Here Ryan is attempting to write a script FOR Trump to follow. How well did that go for Trump ban on Muslims proposal. Oh, it didn't --- obviously, that is the point. Ryan should know by now that you don't write a script for Trump, you write a script around Trump. That is what they did with his reality show and it worked well. But if they want to be dysfunctional (like Ryan is here), I'm fine with that because it can only help Democrats win.

[Eugene]

19. House Speaker Ryan unveils Republican alternative to Obamacare

Source: Reuters

Politics | Wed Jun 22, 2016 4:57am EDT

House Speaker Ryan unveils Republican alternative to Obamacare

U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan unveiled a Republican healthcare agenda on Wednesday that would repeal Obamacare but keep some of its more popular provisions.

The proposal is part of Ryan's blueprint, titled "A Better Way," which offers a Republican alternative to the Democratic Party on policy issues ahead of the Nov. 8 election.

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But Ryan's proposal would keep some popular aspects of the law, including not allowing people with pre-existing conditions to be denied coverage and permitting children to stay on their parents' coverage until age 26.

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The Ryan plan recycles long-held Republican proposals like allowing consumers to buy health insurance across state lines, expanding the use of health savings accounts and giving states block grants to run the Medicaid program for the poor.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-healthcare-ryan-idUSKCN0Z80AQ

[Iliyah]

26. GOP (Cheney) did it wth W

If you notice, the GOP presidents tend to be puppets.