Jonathan Strong:
Senate Republicans scrubbing the Ryan-Murray budget deal have come across a little-noticed provision that will limit the GOP’s ability to block tax increases in future years.
The bill includes language from the Senate Democrats’ budget to void a budget “point of order” against replacing the sequester cuts with tax increases.
The process is quite complicated, but in practice it grants Harry Reid the authority to send tax increases to the House with a bare majority, rather than the 60 vote threshold that would be required under the point of order.
The provision has angered key Republican Senators. Reeling from Harry Reid’s unprecedented use of the “nuclear option” to end the filibuster on presidential nominations, they are incredulous that Paul Ryan would have backed another limit to their power.
“This is an appalling power grab that should never have been allowed to be in a final agreement. It’s essentially the ‘nuclear option’ part two, eroding minority rights in the Senate even further. Harry Reid must be very happy,” a Senate GOP aide says.
A House aide says Reid can send tax bills to the House all he wants, since they will never fly in the lower chamber. “House Republicans would never approve a tax increase,” he says.
While the point is true, the change will likely give Reid a potent political cudgel with which to hit Republicans over, since passage of a bill can put pressure on the other chamber to follow suit.
Ryan is just making your anal opening larger so they can shove more bad up our asses…who knew I was muslim?
Republicans seem to be their own worst enemy. Conceding authority to the Dimocrats to allow them to raise taxes at will is not a winner.
WHY WOULD A GIFTED PAUL RYAN IN NUMBERS, DO THAT MISTAKE?
AND WHY WOULD BEANER PICK ON THE INTELLIGENT GOPS PUBLICLY SO TO HUMILIATE THEM?
HE CANNOT TAKE THE PRESSURE ANYMORE? PICK ON THE DEMS INSTEAD,
HE ALSO GIVING FOOD TO THE DEMOCRATS WHO FOLLOW THE LEADER IN WHATEVER HE WISH
AND IN HIS BEDROOM TO PREVENT HIM FROM GETTING ANGRY AND BREAK AND PUNISH EVERYONE,