WaPo: Paul Ryan tells staff he won't seek re-election

[boutons_deux]

Ryan stood the very real potential of being a Speaker of the House that loses re-election (maybe the first one?).

Majority Leader Eric Cantor lost in primary to an extremist David Brat

A much older Boner quit because he couldn't get done blocked by the Freedom Kockus

Now, younger Ryan quits because Freedom Kockus, Repug/Trash base extremism is also blocking "progress", not that Ryan wanted any progressivism.

So Congressional Repugs are being HIRED by the oligarchy to block ALL progress for the Common Good, and pass only destructive like the tax cut, while the oligarchy's kakistocratic assholes given to Useful Idiot extraordinaire Trash for his Exec are ing up their depts, agencies.

In short, the oligarchy wants govt, America, Americans degraded to favor the oligarchy.

Oligarchy wants all progress for the Common Good to be blocked, because the oligarchy wants to rigged status quo to be at least maintained in their favor, if not actually rigged further in the oligarchy's favor as with their paid-for tax cut.

Meanwhile, even secretlhy, Federalist society, etc give Trash incompetent and/or extremist nominees for the Federal appeals courts where MOST of laws and regs and judgements are made.

iow, in short, America is ed and un able, even mythical democracy is long gone, replaced by oligarchy dominating the country for its own power and wealth.

For all of you CIA/FBI/NSA assholes snooping this political form: there is very probably no bloodless way to dislodge the oligarchy.

[pgardn]

Majority Leader Eric Cantor lost in primary to an extremist David Brat

A much older Boner quit because he couldn't get done blocked by the Freedom Kockus

Now, younger Ryan quits because Freedom Kockus, Repug/Trash base extremism is also blocking "progress", not that Ryan wanted any progressivism.

So Congressional Repugs are being HIRED by the oligarchy to block ALL progress for the Common Good, and pass only destructive like the tax cut, while the oligarchy's kakistocratic assholes given to Useful Idiot extraordinaire Trash for his Exec are ing up their depts, agencies.

In short, the oligarchy wants govt, America, Americans degraded to favor the oligarchy.

Oligarchy wants all progress for the Common Good to be blocked, because the oligarchy wants to rigged status quo to be at least maintained in their favor, if not actually rigged further in the oligarchy's favor as with their paid-for tax cut.

Meanwhile, even secretlhy, Federalist society, etc give Trash incompetent and/or extremist nominees for the Federal appeals courts where MOST of laws and regs and judgements are made.

iow, in short, America is ed and un able, even mythical democracy is long gone, replaced by oligarchy dominating the country for its own power and wealth.

For all of you CIA/FBI/NSA assholes snooping this political form: there is very probably no bloodless way to dislodge the oligarchy.

So you attempt to outperform all the bizarre theories with the same old line.

The Republicans House is going in all directions like a bunch of disoriented fish which from time to time school up when Donald hits on key issues that excite a particular part of its base (NRA). Nunez has his head down protecting a president that refuses protection, while others in the same party hide behind a micro issue that excites their little corner of the world.

Meanwhile, you suggest this oligarchy that continually runs the world ( o Trumpworld boots) needs to be violently removed.

Democracy is a mess...

[baseline bum]

So you attempt to outperform all the bizarre theories with the same old line.

The Republicans House is going in all directions like a bunch of disoriented fish which from time to time school up when Donald hits on key issues that excite a particular part of its base (NRA). Nunez has his head down protecting a president that refuses protection, while others in the same party hide behind a micro issue that excites their little corner of the world.

Meanwhile, you suggest this oligarchy that continually runs the world ( o Trumpworld boots) needs to be violently removed.

Democracy is a mess...

You seriously don't believe this country is an oligarchy?

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So you attempt to outperform all the bizarre theories with the same old line.

The same old line is unchanged, so I stay with it. I'm sure you're immune to evidence, but the tax cut, the ONLY major legislation in this session because it was the oligarchy's overwhelming priority, was dictated, even written by the oligarchy.

Nunes, etc are "mere details" of Congressional tiness, no impact at all, on the oligarchy's control.

Dems will apparently do quite well in Nov, as the out-of-power party customarily does, but they must, due to Repug gerrymandering, voter suppression, counting fraud, outvote the Repugs by 11% just to drawn even, never mind actually getting control of either House.

The Freedom Kockus will win even more seats and will continue to block ALL progress so the oligarchy's status quo will be maintained.

The Dems won't get a clean 60 (ie, 60 without independents and DINOs) in the Senate.

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Furious Koch Brothers Sell Paul Ryan on eBay



WASHINGTON —In a fit of pique, David and Charles Koch have unceremoniously listed House Speaker Paul Ryan for sale on the auction site eBay.

The Kochs, who reportedly had purchased Ryan for a sum estimated in the tens of millions,

now seem likely to lose their entire investment.

According to Ryan’s listing on the auction site, the

Kochs set a five-hundred-dollar asking price for the used congressman,

a figure that, in light of the tepid bidding for him, seems optimistic.

“Granted, owning Paul Ryan doesn’t have the benefits that it’s had for David and Charles for all of these years,

but the status of

owning a former Speaker of the House has to be worth something,”

one Koch associate said.

“Certainly more than the current high bid of seventeen dollars.”

The eBay listing

suggested several possible uses for the former House Speaker, including as a Halloween ornament or garden gnome.

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/furious-koch-brothers-sell-paul-ryan-on-ebay

[RandomGuy]

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 would free Ryan up to act according to his conscience.

[RandomGuy]

You seriously don't believe this country is an oligarchy?

Certainly seems like it is tilting that way at this point. Money is the only thing that matters when it comes to setting policy. Lobbying/special interests over common good.

Wish I could say otherwise. Lot of people need to wake up and take their country back from the extremists who have been fueled by the oligarchs' trickle down propaganda.

If that makes me sound like boutons, so be it.

I think we don't really pay attention, since we are so busy running our lives, and the wealthy take advantage of that to us over.

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search "princeton oligarchy study"

The USA is, has been an oligarchy.

Citizens are disenfranchised, and their preferences are ignored so that the paying oligarchy's preferences get into law, regs, judicial judgements.

As the oligarchy becomes dramatically more wealthy from the oligarchy's tax cuts, buying politicians, judges will become dramatically, comparatively cheaper vs the oligarchy's $Bs

nothing happens in politics anymore unless someone has been, or will get, paid.

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Paul Ryan Was a Failure, Even on His Own Terms

"The social insurance strategies of the past century, which sprang from the New Deal, expanded in the Great Society, and continue to dominate the terms of public debate, are headed toward collapse . . .

Among the inescapable signs are the following:

an unsustainable path of Government spending;

levels of projected debt that threaten to bankrupt the country;

trillions of dollars of unfunded liabilities in the Government’s major benefit programs;

and the erosion of Americans’ security and confidence in health care and retirement . . .

A comprehensive plan is needed, and

this legislation aims to energize the productive capacities of Americans to generate sustained economic growth."

In the wake of Ryan’s announcement on Wednesday that he intends to retire from the House of Representatives at the end of this year, a number of economic commentators pointed out that

his grand plans came to naught.

As Paul Krugman pointed out back in 2010,

Ryan is a flimflam man:

his arithmetic has never added up.

But what hasn’t been emphasized enough is that

Ryan wasn’t merely a purveyor of snake oil and a front man for the conservative billionaires and other wealthy interests whose money has flooded the Republican Party in recent years.

He was also a failure on his own terms.


He also praised himself for “normalizing” the idea of en lement reform.

Far from making en lement reform more likely, Ryan’s actions, particularly his championing of the recent Republican tax bill, have rendered the entire subject utterly toxic for the foreseeable future.

With Congress and the Trump Administration having just handed out huge tax cuts to wealthy people and major corporations,

there is now no prospect whatsoever of the general public or the Democratic Party acceding to benefit cuts for middle- and low-income retirees.

The bipartisan effort to reform en lements petered out, and today it is hard to see how it could ever be resurrected.

In promoting highly dubious fiscal plans,

turning his back on bipartisan initiatives,

enabling Trump, and

championing a costly and inequitable tax-reform bill,

he let down the country.

But he failed by his own lights, too.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/paul-ryan-was-a-failure-even-on-his-own-terms

Just another loser to the oligarchy.

Like Trash, Ryan and the Freedom Kockus are tiny, tiny, ty people.

[z0sa]

One RINO gone, another more extreme version soon to take his place.

[Winehole23]

Paul Nehlen?

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Paul Nehlen?

If Nehlen, he's just as nasty as Ryan, but in different directions.

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Paul Nehlen Is Now The Frontrunner In His GOP Primary, Still A White Supremacist


http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/p...e-supremacist/

[baseline bum]

One RINO gone, another more extreme version soon to take his place.

How is Ryan a RINO? Because he isn't overtly racist when he speaks like Trump is?

[Spurminator]

Ryan is basically the quintessential Republican.

People now say "RINO" when they mean "Republican with whom I, as a Republican, have some areas of disagreement."

Or, in Russia, "Republican who is not sufficiently loyal to Donald Trump."

[z0sa]

How is Ryan a RINO? Because he isn't overtly racist when he speaks like Trump is?

I thought an only artificially disguised Tea Partier would be a RINO. I admit I don’t really know what a Republican or a Democrat consists of besides stances on abortion and guns.