{"id":19757,"date":"2013-12-17T18:53:08","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T23:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=19757"},"modified":"2013-12-17T18:53:08","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T23:53:08","slug":"gop-to-strike-back-on-debt-limit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/19757\/gop-to-strike-back-on-debt-limit\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP to Strike Back on Debt Limit?"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019re disappointed by Paul Ryan\u2019s budget deal to avoid another government shutdown, the House Budget Chairman has a message for you.<\/p>\n

Wait till February.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s when the debt limit will be reached and, according to Ryan, when Republicans in Congress will try to extract some meaningful concessions<\/a> from Democrats.<\/p>\n

Of course, Ryan didn\u2019t divulge any specifics about what kind of concessions would qualify, likely because he\u2019s waiting for the results from a GOP confab in the New Year to settle on a strategy.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m skeptical. Ryan\u2019s budget deal takes most of the obvious targets off the table until 2015 \u2013 that is, after the midterm elections \u2013 making it hard to see what leverage he and other Republicans in Congress can exert on Democrats and President Barack Obama to curb their spending habits.<\/p>\n

If recent history is any guide, the most likely scenario is that Republicans continue to fracture over fiscal issues while the Democrats get an assist from the mainstream media in raising the debt limit.<\/p>\n

The bitter pill for conservatives to swallow is that House Republicans have almost no ability to make substantive changes in law or policy unless and until the party regains control of the Senate. If the upper chamber flips next year then the silver lining to Ryan\u2019s budget deal and the likely debt ceiling capitulation it\u2019s that they might be the last time the GOP negotiates from a position of weakness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019re disappointed by Paul Ryan\u2019s budget deal to avoid another government shutdown, the House Budget Chairman has a message for you. Wait till February. That\u2019s when the debt limit will be reached and, according to Ryan, when Republicans in Congress will try to extract some meaningful concessions from Democrats. Of course, Ryan didn\u2019t divulge […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4073,70,84,81,802],"class_list":["post-19757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-4073","tag-budget","tag-congress","tag-debt","tag-paul-ryan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19757"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19760,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19757\/revisions\/19760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}