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Medicare can rest easy now.
this clown.
Medicare can rest easy now.
this clown.
Tbh hate to say this but he's probably a lot better than what will come after
I bet our Dear Leader told Ryan he is firing at least Rosenstein despite Ryan's objections.
House Speaker Paul Ryan was the biggest fraud in American politics
Good riddance.
he was the biggest phony.
Ryan wanted something more. Power, yes.
To improve the lives of the wealthy while reducing the living standards of the poor, of course.
But he also craved a certain form of respectability that’s led him to leave behind a
staggering track record of broken promises
and glowing press clips from journalists who were gullible enough to believe them.
From his early days as a Social Security reformer to his mid-career posturing as a deficit hawk to his rebranding as a person deeply concerned with poverty, he’s been the Jack Abernathy of Congress.
Eventually,
the con ran out, leaving Ryan with little in the way of substantive accomplish
as he chose to cut and run before a midterm election that’s shaping up to be a race between his party’s deep unpopularity and the strength of its aggressive gerrymandering.
first really made his mark during the Social Security privatization wars of 2004-’05.
Ryan emerged as a player by sponsoring, along with then-Sen. John Sununu, a further-right plan that would create more generous private accounts
at the cost of $2.4 trillion in larger deficits over the first 10 years.
Indeed, as the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities noted at the time,
“the plan would increase the national debt (i.e., the debt held by the public) every year for at least the next 75 years.”
This award was completely at odds with Ryan’s actual record in Congress, which had featured support for multiple rounds of budget-busting Bush tax cuts, Bush’s deficit-financed 2003 Medicare bill, his wars, and his TARP bank bailout.
But the new Ryan was said to be a deficit visionary thanks to
his 2010 budget framework,
which outlined a long-term plan to reduce the budget deficit.
Except as Jonathan Cohn wrote at the time,
the plan relied entirely on magic asterisks —
an unspecified tax reform that would
bring revenue to 19 percent of GDP
while increasing economic growth,
unspecified cuts to domestic discretionary spending, and
a bare assertion that Medicare cost growth could be greatly reduced through privatization,
with no plan to explain how that would work.
etc, etc.
https://www.vox.com/2018/4/11/172239...aul-ryan-fraud
Ryan was Ayn-Rand-licking asshole, which defines his intellectual sophistication. Also, just another nasty, extremist Catholic Repug.
Paul Ryan is abandoning the ship before it sinks
The political reality is less noble.
One can hardly imagine a more obvious signal that Ryan fears the prospect, if not of losing his own seat, than of losing the majority and hence his speakership.
In the past, speakers — understanding the demoralizing impact that premature white-flag-waving would have on their troops — had the good sense to wait until after the election to announce that they would exit the leadership of their party.
Ryan’s move has several consequences.
First, Democrats (who were heavily spending to defeat Ryan) can declare victory in that race and save the money it would have taken to knock out a sitting speaker.
Second, this is a flashing light to donors and candidates on both sides. For Republican money-men, the message is: Don’t throw away cash trying to save the House.
Third, this will be seen in some quarters as a sign that Ryan cannot bear defending the president from potential impeachment.
Fourth, as we have noted, it is highly unlikely that Trump is going to deliver any more items on the GOP domestic wish-list.
Fifth, Ryan’s departure makes his refusal to remove from committees characters such as Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) — who colluded with the White House in smearing the FBI and wrecking the intelligence-oversight system — all the more inexplicable.
In sum,
Ryan retreats from the scene
after loading the country up with debt and
leaving virtually every other agenda item save tax cuts undone.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2018/04/11/paul-ryan-is-abandoning-the-ship-before-it-sinks/?utm_term=.4937b6434d3a&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1
Maybe the other Republican that was running in his primary will take up the gauntlet and make Breitbart crowd their pants.
An actual jew-hatin' deport all the muzzies type. I'm sure that will go over well.
https://wonkette.com/627486/bannon-b...mary-paul-ryan
I hope they spend tens of billions.
(shrugs)
Such as?
win or lose, for the oligarchy, corrupting elections, politicians, judges cost them nothing but pocket change, out of the $Bs they have to play with. Their ROI is the 100s or 1000s of percent.
Do you read your own posts?
Maybe the other Republican that was running in his primary will take up the gauntlet and make Breitbart crowd their pants.
An actual jew-hatin' deport all the muzzies type. I'm sure that will go over well.
https://wonkette.com/627486/bannon-b...mary-paul-ryan
I was referring to who will be Speaker of the House after Paul Ryan, not what Nazi the Republican party will run next in any given congressional race.
Although at this point, it is hard to keep track of where and which Nazi is running under the Republican banner for something. They seem to be coming out of the woodwork, for some reason.
Last edited by RandomGuy; 04-11-2018 at 12:16 PM.
lol Ryan is involved right smack in the middle of this Russia . Ryan is not running again because of the dirt on him. Just like Chaffetz.
No idea about that, but Republicans are losing in districts that Trump carried by +15% or more.
Trump carried Ryans district by 5% if memory serves.
Ryan stood the very real potential of being a Speaker of the House that loses re-election (maybe the first one?).
I donated to the campaign of one of his Democratic opponents already.
I hate hearing these sob stories about how Ryan couldn't control the freedom kochus when he was teabagger #1 for years.
The Freedom Koch-us is like Frankenstein's monster who turns on it's creator.
Gerrymandering mother ers have no one to blame but heir own lust for power.
how had i not seen that term?
I've been spelling it Freedom Kockus for years. Kock Bros, pricks, heads, oligarchs.
Yeah. Republicans are going to get smacked. Transcripts of Ryan were already leaked regarding Putin paying Trump. And to "keep it quiet". Sudden "retirement" is coming for other reasons.
It's muh Russia! It's all tied in!
RIP GOP!
How about Ryan is just sick of having to constantly juggle while on a unicycle and can make more money in the private sector.
This seems reasonable.
The timing is noted.
Its not good for the red team.
Link to the article about leaked Ryan transcripts?
I think it's on www.kylegriffinpipedreams.com
So he thought there might be a chance he could lose his seat so he quit? Is that the theory you're going with?
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