Soon-to-be House budget chair Paul Ryan said Tuesday that some of the shots that fellow conservatives are taking at the bipartisan tax deal are motivated by politics, not policy.

“A lot of people are making these political arguments, which are, ‘What is the proper political chess move against Obama?’ And that is not the way we should be thinking right now when it comes to jobs and economy,” Ryan said in an interview Tuesday…

As for complaints by some conservatives that Republicans should have gotten more concessions from Obama, Ryan said he doesn’t like some parts of the deal, but:

“What are you going to get in a divided-government situation?”