A Little Story
There is a saying that in politics Republicans want to fall in line and Democrats want to fall in love.
I have no idea who said it first but it is true, true, triple true.
Paul Ryan and Donald Trump issued a joint statement this morning.
“While we were honest about our few differences, we recognize that there are also many important areas of common ground,” Trump and Ryan said in a joint statement. “We will be having additional discussions, but remain confident there’s a great opportunity to unify our party and win this fall, and we are totally committed to working together to achieve that goal.”
Damn. “Few” differences? Really? I suspect that the idea that Washington insiders are what is wrong with this country might be one.
Add this:
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And Twitter went wild —
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Reconciling irreconcilable principles isn’t so tough, when the principles are imaginary. “We must be flexible” can mean so many things to snacilbupeR. How did if feel, Paul?
1How about this!
http://crooksandliars.com/2016/05/uh-oh-trump-named-panama-papers-3540-times
2Uh, oh! This is a chalk and cheese situation. Guess which one can’t understand why the other guy doesn’t recognize The Big Cheese of the other one! Ryan is a toddler compared to Hair Trump. Unity my lace covered foot!
3Wow for a moment I had an image of Ted Kaczynski and George Metesky meeting face to face to iron out their perceived “differences”. BTW Ted, George forgot his package when he left.
4Trump’s voters reject the established order. All we need is for them to see Trump as a sellout part of that order for him to alienate everybody!
5I hope Ryan didn’t wear out his knee pads….
6A better example of hypocrisy than Webster’s definition.
7Despite all the bullcarp (media saturation, urk), one stinkin’ day after their NRC convention, the Rescummies will unite solidly and commence an all-out political blitzkrieg until November.
8I only hope the Dems can withstand it, because this really is the most important election in recent history (notice the artful dodge there, it may be ‘ever’ FAIK).
I’ve had to give up liquor but I’ve not yet given up popcorn.
9I may go back to liquor. I’m not sure popcorn is enough.
10They’ll do anything to keep a Dem out of the White House so the fix is in. Ryan will fall in line as will most of the hypocrites.
11The safest course is for them to mumble when asked directly and then point at an imaginary Elvis while making their getaway. Maybe the can reprise the paper sack heads that Saints fans used to wear.
12They spoke in a language Republicans understand best.
“Ryan either you endorse me and I set you up a retirement package managing my resort in Bermuda, or I have Rocko here brake both your kneecaps”, Donald Trump
13Rhea, popcorn isn’t enough but it will have to do for now. 🙁
14Aside from Trump and Ryan, the best nugget from the CNN article comes in the final paragraphs:
After the Trump meeting, Senate GOP leaders briefed their conference in Mansfield room near the Senate floor. Former Trump rival Ted Cruz didn’t say much there, other than a joke, according to a senator in the room.
“To be honest with you, I didn’t want to come back,” Cruz said.
Arizona Sen. John McCain responded: “We didn’t want you to either.”
15Of course unifying the party accepts that Donald Trump is now the head of the party.
Good luck with that. A Trump win would be awful for all of us, but it might be worst for the GOP.
16If Paul Ryan ever stumbles this way he might gain greatly from this: “Trump is like the loud drunk in the bar who will say anything to get laid.”
Source: Mark Cuban, another billionaire
17Even Sen John pukin’ Cornyn (R-TXsecede) says it’s all a con job about the Repukian ‘split’ between the GOPosaurs and tRump. Even Rachel Maddow has been saying this.
The ‘Pukes will play this ‘free media attention’ game until after their RNC kkkonvention.
Then it will be a monolithic front with all of them united and waging the most massive political blitzkrieg ever (and any other mode of attack they think of, such as an economic sabotage op…).
(lots of other links at this one):
18http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/5/12/1525952/–The-so-called-split-between-the-Republican-party-and-its-Presidential-nominee-is-a-made-up-story
Today’s Toles cartoon literally made me laugh out loud:
http://www.gocomics.com/tomtoles/2016/05/13
19Sandridge, I watched Rachel last night and she talked about this. She said there are actually only 5 congressional snacilbupeR who have vowed not to vote for or support Drumpf. 5 out of what? 300 +/-?
I wonder about the voting public? What percentage of snacilbupeR will not vote for Drumpf?
20Debbo,
21You’d never know listening to the in the tank ‘media’, the Sunday talkheads were full of it, and it’s been nonstop all week (I don’t get RM, no cable/sat tv).
As far as a % of R’s, by Nov the ones not rabidly drooling for Herr Drumpf will approach 0.0001%/Zero (as far as finding a “principled R”- bwahahaha…).
Ryan is dancing in soft shoes. All politics is local. He has an election in November and he has one hot challenger. He also knows that damn near nothing he does will save him from one faction or the other who could put “finito” to his career.
22When I see the goings-on, I’m reminded of an old commercial: “It’s enough to make you sick. Isn’t it enough to make you stop?”
GOTV!! Vote, vote, vote, vote, vote. Every primary and every general, every year.
23I have seen a couple of “takes” over the future of Trump, one from Rachel Maddow who says that Trump’s policies don’t exist because he will see what needs to be done once he’s in the Oval Office (or something like that), and another article about how the meme we are all chanting about how bad Trump/the GOP are and how Trump will implode, etc., which is a dangerous way of thinking. (While I am typing this, I, an English major, think, who wants to parse this sentence).
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