The nuns used to tell us if we told a lie, God might strike us dead. So why isn’t Paul Ryan a smoldering heap?
Speaker Ryan: "It is no longer just that our passions are getting the best of us. More and more, our politics is enabling the worst in us…We are no longer seeing our opponents as sort of the other side, but as the others, as targets, as someone who is not fundamentally like us" pic.twitter.com/uTtgBYCaiP
— NBC News (@NBCNews) July 25, 2018
House Speaker Paul Ryan spells out what’s on the table for the highest bidders:
House Speaker Paul Ryan warned that Democratic gains in November’s congressional elections could make it impossible to get anything accomplished and expose President Donald Trump’s administration to more aggressive oversight.
Should Republicans lose control of either the House or Senate, “you’ll have gridlock, you’ll have subpoenas,” with the whole legislative system “shutting down,” Ryan said Wednesday in Beverly Hills, California, at the annual Milken Institute Global Conference.
It was disgusting, listening to all the politicians and talking heads slaver over the noble and altruistic policy wonk’s retirement announcement yesterday. He wants to spend time with his family? Sure he does.
What a joke. I know more about economic policy than that Koch tool. His only gift was the ability to twist policy to fit his donors’shopping list. Notice he pushed for entitlement reform in his announcement and said he will continue to work for it.
Fuck Paul Ryan. Good riddance!
Paul Ryan will retire as the biggest fake in American politics https://t.co/OkwcklppFN pic.twitter.com/Ttv1LLulBR
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) April 11, 2018
This entirely. And the Paul Ryan gauzy fiction held through dozens of votes on his budgets, which would have decimated the poor, the sick and the elderly. His contempt for the social safety net, and the fact that his numbers never added never marred his “boy wonder” image. https://t.co/agWBHb29aL
— Mkay (@JoyAnnReid) April 11, 2018
The "now Paul Ryan is finally free to do what's right!" chorus tells you everything you need to know about the true cluelessness of Beltway media types.
— Tom Watson (@tomwatson) April 11, 2018
More on Ryan: he has failed at both his pretended goals and his real goals. He pretended to be a champion of fiscal responsibility, convincing naive centrists that he really meant it; but his legacy is one of bigger deficits 1/
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) April 11, 2018
https://twitter.com/lpolgreen/status/984155968014516224
To everyone who got involved in politics after 2016, who knocked on doors, who went to a rally, who donated, who voted,
You’re the reason Paul Ryan is leaving.
Resistance 1
Paul Ryan 0— Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) April 11, 2018
Paul Ryan has always insisted on “revenue neutral” tax reform, but now that congressional Dems have been trounced, he’s singing a slightly different tune. The Wisconsin wing-nut said today he’d be open to a deal that would include revenue increases.
The revenues would fall far short of the spending cuts, but you know the economy is tanking again when an Ayn Rand asswipe pretends to give an inch on taxes.
