Paul Ryan Announces He Won't Work With President

Government is required to do something. If no bills are passed there is no army, no justice system, no functioning at all.

Not passing laws means doing nothing.

appropriation bills that direct federal funds to various agencies and arms of the government,

The solution is to pass whatever laws are necessary to stop new waves of immigrants from crossing the border illegally. When this is done we can then turn to the status of the illegal immigrants already here.

With a president who believes he can pick and chose the laws he wishes to enforce

He asked the legislature to pass immigration reform for years. They failed to act. So Obama is untrustworthy because he did his job and stepped in to do what he could when the legislature failed to do theirs?

Yes, that is the solution. Ryan has just said he refuses to do that. You can make all the excuses for that you want, but at the end of the day, Team Ryan refuses to step on the playing field.

We need to have this power grab repudiated.

Have you seen my rants about how Washington is broken?

....Ryan is getting more done for American than Boehner did.

Boehner did what almost all US politicians set out to do; make themselves millionaires through graft. He considers himself to be a roaring success.

The real money comes after they work in government, when they can sell their access.

ISIS is running amok in the Middle East, slaughtering men women and children. Those they don't kill they enslave, rape and/or drive into a desperate attempt to find refuge. What new law is required to address this problem?
Laws pay for military responses. Congressional approval with a law allows a President to send troops for an extended period. Or are you arguing the President should act without Congress?

The Russian bear has awakened and is sticking its nose and claws into areas where we have strategic interests. What new law is required to address this problem?
Laws allow for sanctions of Russia. Or are you arguing the President should impose sanctions without Congressional approval?

In another thread, there is a discussion on the extent to which racism continues to exist in this country. While I may not agree with my progressive friends on the extent to which it exists and the scope of its impact, I do agree it remains in our nation and our culture. What to do about it though? Pass a law that makes it illegal to hate someone because of the color of their skin? That's sure to be a huge success. We passed a law making it illegal to discriminate in many ways including because of the color of their skin. Perhaps you have heard of civil rights legislation.

Our public education system is in shambles and we are slipping on the world stage in this regard. I know, let's pass a law that requires every child to pay attention in class, every teacher to do a good job and every parent to care about their kid's education, and while we're at, let's pass a law that raises taxes on the "rich" so we have even more money to throw at the problem than we already do. Paying more, per student, on education than just about every other nation in the world hasn't been proven to be a failure. It's just not enough. We're almost there. That it hasn't worked only shows that we haven't spent enough! Now you are just making silly arguments based on your bias often without basis in fact.

Progressives believe every problem can be solved with money and laws.
And conservatives believe if we do nothing the problem will go away. The funny thing is every time we have tried that, it didn't seem to work.
Usually the laws are designed to take money from some citizens and divert it to "solving" the problem. You can't help it, you like the idea of Big Government taking care of us all, and taking money out of the pockets of the "Rich" to fund that care. You forgot to mention that only conservatives pay taxes. Your arguments are becoming a joke at this point. By supporting the Big Progressive Government and its Big Progressive Policies you get to feel like you too are taking care of all of us and especially our least fortunate brothers and sisters. It also allows you the luxury of believing that highly complex and often intractable problems are actually easy to fix if only the greedy bastards on the right would go along with new programs, new laws and surrendering more of their money which, as we all know, they basically stole from the rest of us in the first place. More of your idiotic argument that only conservatives pay taxes.

Since you want a Big Government and believe it can solve all of our problems if given free reign, and since conservatives want a small government and believe a Really Big one generally makes problems worse thanks to the law of unintended consequences, it's only natural for you to see them as standing in the way of Utopia in our time. I'd despise us too if I was a progressive. Lovely how you can read my mind. NOT!

My point about appropriation bills was that in most cases these are the only "new" laws congress needs to enact. Obviously the military needs money to operate and since congress controls the nation's purse strings, it the place from which the money is going to come. But appropriation bills aren't fun, no one gets to attach his or her name to them and they don't make for much of a legacy. So now you agree that Congress can't do nothing.
Your progressive side is showing.
In reality, most of the Republicans in DC feel the same way about Government and legislation as the Democrats. They like Big Government too and they like spending taxpayer dollars. They like to have their names attached to a bill and they all want a legacy. It's why progressives really hate the Tea Party. Those mean-spirited bastards have gotten in the way. They all remember the amnesty for enforcement con that Reagan fell for and are not about to let it happen again. The GOP Establishment was poised to cut another sham deal, but those dirty teabaggers made it radioactive. They have the nerve to actually try and represent the views of the people who sent them to DC with their votes. Wouldn't it be nice if government could just be free then you wouldn't have to pay for it?

If the government passes no laws then they are doing nothing

Obama isn’t taking any chances, though, meeting with the top Democrats on the House and Senate appropriations committees at the White House on Tuesday to go over strategy.