Paul Ryan
All Paul Ryan had to do was be just a little bit better than John Boehner. Just a little bit. That’s all he had to do not go down as the worst Speaker of the House ever.
Nope. Couldn’t do it.
He leaves behind a mess. A damn mess, I tell you.
On the Truth-O-Meter, he scores in the negative numbers, which is hard to do when Trump’s around seeking that title for himself.
Vanity Fair says, “Ryan Laments Not Screwing Over More Poor People On His Way Out the Door.”
John Nichols reports, “Paul Ryan sends a shiver down Scrooge’s spine.”
Ezra Klein saddles Paul Ryan with giving us massive debt with his tax cuts for the rich.
Vox’s Ezra Klein says that retiring House Speaker Paul Ryan’s legacy can be summed up in one number: $343 billion. “That’s the increase between the deficit for fiscal year 2015 and fiscal year 2018— that is, the difference between the fiscal year before Ryan became speaker of the House and the fiscal year in which he retired.”
Richard North Patterson, in the Boston Globe, offers an explanation.
Ryan’s big ideas ossified in college — that heady time of imbalance between intellectual self-confidence and one’s actual experience of life. Most of us recover; Ryan did not. Thus his distressingly attenuated enthusiasm for the novels of Ayn Rand.
My friend Thelma sums it all up, “that boy is meaner than ten acres of snakes.”
All he had to do was be just a little bit better than John Boehner. That’s not a high bar.
There’s never been much redemption or hope for someone who misrepresents his best Marathon time.
1Charles P. Pierce who writes for Esquire calls Ryan a “zombie eyed granny starver.” How true.
2Paul Ryan had a difficult job: crafting lies to conceal the Republican Party’s dream of eliminating taxes on the 1% while shifting the costs to the rest of us, while keeping the voters from spotting the scam. He failed miserably.
3Buttermilk Sky on December 14, 2018 quoted Charles Pierce, who summed up DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen as “… a monstrous cyborg whose soul is a bag of scorpions.”
RE: John Boner and his mini me, Paul Ryan, I can only apply Buttermilk Sky’s earlier quote, they are each, a “… a monstrous cyborg whose soul is a bag of scorpions.”
4On second thought, and for my fellow Whovians, Paul Ryan is Colony Sarff, minion of Davros.
5Lyin’ Ryan being an epic failure was what was best about him. That he was a huge disappointment to Hair Fuhrer was good, too. That he was too cowardly to run for another term was also good for America. He was a total waste of Charles and David Koch’s money; also good. What more ‘nice’ things can be said of the guy who was the weak link on the Romney ticket?
VP Joe Biden laughing at him was a classic debate. Ryan was a bowl of Count Chocula served up as a urinal.
6The Republicans have set the bar so low they had to dig a trench to put it in.
7@Micr–And Charles Pierce also has this to say about Ryan:
“Speaker Paul Ryan, the zombie-eyed granny starver from the state of Wisconsin, has spent this week bidding farewell to Our Nation’s Capital, and taking both his prodigious ego, and parading the tattered remnants of his utterly undeserved reputation down the boulevards of Washington. To complete the metaphor, somebody should have walked behind him with the shovel and a bucket. Ever the charlatan’s charlatan, and in keeping with the spirit of the season, his prolonged valedictory was as full of shit as the Christmas goose.”
8Lyin’ Ryan spent the morning on the phone with Donnie. Next on his agenda of final days of humiliation will be having Speaker Pelosi’s pump removed from his posterior.
9… while the Republican-controlled congress has spent its time spending untold tax dollars into the future so that Democrats will have no room whatsoever to fund their priorities. Should the democrats do away with the top one-percenter’s tax cut windfall, well then the GOP intends to attack the tax-raising Dems, and they will beat that mule to death in a single minded, unending campaign..
I don’t like McConnell and believe he should be removed from office and forbidden to use any publicly funded device forever and ever amen, but at least he thinks and plans, witness his threat to stop all things Obama, which he did, then when he gets a goofball for a President, he has already confirmed two supreme courters and oodles and oodles of absolutely worthless federal judges.
At least they plan, while Dems appear to react, slowly at first, and thereafter perhaps not at all if it’s too much trouble.
Leadership is the issue, but I see no blue McConnells.
10It was lucky for Ryan that he has birthright American citizenship, because under the new Republican Party doctrine, if Ryan were a green card holder seeking to become a citizen, he would be deemed unfit
11All the small-handed vulgarian had to do was be just a little better than George W. Bush, and look how that turned out. The NSGOP long ago surrendered any right to advertise itself as worthy to run a government at any level.
12I never had any confidence in Ryan as SOTH, remember he was the last choice. They had to beg him to take over, and perhaps for a while he understood he wasn’t up to the job. Here’s another shining example of the saying, “Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely”. There are a few others in DC who also can fit that description.
13Biden summed it up right here:
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How fitting that the last event in Washington during his failed tenure as SOTH is the government shutting down, brought on by the deranged moron he failed to check, as was his Constitutional duty.
Karma slamming the door on his worthless ass on the way out.
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