Oh, This Is Gonna Look Great On His Resume
Paul Ryan. I gotta tell you, just saying that name gives me the creeps.
Today I learned that Paul Ryan and a small group of Republican congressmen used to meet regularly to plot the GOP agenda. They called themselves the Jedi Council. Oh. Lord. Help. Me. These guys are Darths-in-Training.
Horribly disgraced Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price was a member of the Jedi Council. I suspect this is where Price got help to come up with his plan that he only reimburse the taxpayers for his seat on an airplane when he made us pay for the whole damn airplane.
I do not want to obsess on this before I get to the important part of this story but you cannot look like this and be a Jedi. I’m sorry, that’s just how it is. I don’t make the rules but I certainly follow them. You can be small, green, and wrinkled and be a Jedi, but a Jedi does not look constipated all the time. Or that they have a rash they can’t scratch in public. Additionally, Jedis cannot be mean sumbitches. I just want to set that straight.
But, here’s the important part.
Speaker Paul Ryan last week urged the White House to reconsider ousting Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, his longtime friend who had come under fire for often using taxpayer-funded private jets for travel, according to two people with knowledge of the call.
Ryan urged Kelly to reconsider and touted the Georgia Republican’s experience in Congress and work in the administration, one of the people familiar with the call said.
Okay, when Ryan runs for president again, and he will, let’s make sure people know that his Jedi Council has a very, very high bar for ripping off the taxpayers for your own personal pleasure.
My little bride recorded the “Jedi Council” twist-off on Morning Joe this morning for me to view later. Apparently Joe Scarborough has a killer Yoda impression and less than no patience for Eddie Munster and his immaturely stupid “Jedi Council” comment.
1“But, but, but we paid for his airfare with 450 billion in Medicare cuts in the current budget, so where’s the problem?”
2Lyin Ryan seems more loathsome than many because he projected the image of clean all American boy for so long. He suckered many of us, and I admit I didn’t think he was so bad. I’m willing to say that, yes indeed, he suckered me. I will add, I’m not his fool now, but I think that’s why I’m even more angry with that putrid pond scum. I tend to be cynical and distrustful, so to think that a$$hole suckered me — and the extent of his true sliminess is becoming more apparent by the day . . . grrrrrrrrr.
Jedi? Bah! As micr said, Eddie Munster, with the brain and attitude of Eddie Haskell.
3Debbo, its ok. Many were fooled by Lyin’ Ryan. Of course he always struck me as loathsome. I remember during his vp run a reporter asking him how he could balance the budget while cutting rich people’s and middle class taxes. His answer basically was—-“You wouldn’t understand the math.”
Turns out Paul doesn’t either.
Ryan is as heinous and as clueless as the rest. He is the high school class president who wore the right clothes, was in all the great clubs and always “seemed” to be high minded—-But it turned out he never really did any of the work because he somehow charmed the really smart people to do it and they let him take credit. You know ’cause he looked the part.
Jedi my hind foot.
4They are rePUKEians so you know they are LIARS and they claim it is a Jedi Council, but we all know it is the Sith Council!!!
5My psych training compels me to say that grown men playing at little boy things – well – are not grown men.
6The alarmingly st00pid are over represented in Congress, when morons such as Louie Gohmert (R-TX), Mark Amodei (R-NV) and so many others occupy seats that could otherwise be held by legislators, people who can actually write and vote legislation for the American people.
Lyin’ Ryan is an especially evil variety of special snowflake. He has an agenda of which none of it is good for anyone but the special interests who line his pockets. “He’s the smart one.” Where the snacilbupeR bought that particular erroneous meme is a mystery, particularly as Ryan is as st00pid as the blank pages of his last budget.
The snacilbupeR have a rare talent for over looking the obvious. Remember when their alleged policy wonk took his six blank budget pages to the Senate? That’s where and when Senator Patty Murray was able to put actual numbers to his blank pages and present a budget to be passed. Ryan stood beside her and took undeserved credit for HER budget. Ryan, the guy who does nothing, but is always ready to take a bow and credit for the work of others.
His best photo op was ‘washing’ already clean pots. His finest moment – pretending to do something, while taking credit for the work of others. Lyin’ Ryan is a master of the empty gesture.
7Let us hope that Justice Kennedy sides with the righteous about gerrymandering.
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