Posted on 05/10/2016 8:53:55 AM PDT by dennisw
A story of a small-town city council puts Paul Ryan’s shift on Donald Trump in perspective.
A friend of mine who lived in a small country town was elected to the local council. Because he is something of a gadfly, his colleagues made him speaker of the council, thinking that by promoting him to a largely ceremonial role, they were taming him.
He made one change: he had the council building lock its side entrances, so that the only entry was through the front, and made council members clock in and out like other municipal employees. They were livid — and the public was delighted.
The speaker of any deliberative body is a potentially powerful position, but has only one real weapon: the rules. (In Isaiah Berlin’s terms, if some politicians are foxes who know many things, and others are hedgehogs who know only one thing, an effective speaker is a hedgehog.)
Certainly, speakers can develop other tools — intellectual, political, and financial — but without the rules, a speaker is impotent.
Paul Ryan laid down the rules in January: as the likely chair of the Republican National Convention, he would support the party’s nominee, Trump included. That was long after Trump had announced his plans to suspend Muslim immigration, to which Ryan had objected. It was also long after Trump had made controversial remarks about Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly and after he had attacked his rivals for weeks, even bringing up Sen. Ted Cruz’s Canadian birth.
Ryan said to CNN’s Jake Tapper last week, that “you have to unify all wings of the Republican Party in a conservative movement” before qualifying for the nomination. That new requirement effectively gives Trump’s die-hard critics a veto. It also represents a subtle yet “seismic” change in the rules Ryan himself established.
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This is why we need the purge. The purge is coming.
Third Governors Scanton, Rockefeller and Romney.
They were disappeared after they stabbed Goldwater in the back while Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan campaigned for Goldwater in a losing cause
Those 3 never went anywhere except Rockefeller being appointed VP.
In 1976 contested campaign Ronald Reagan used his leverage to have Nelson Rockefeller thrown of the Ford Ticket
As we know Nixon and Reagan went on to win FOUR Terms as President.
The GOP seems to consist of Ryans and Boners. No other choices.
72 virgins
Part time Paul was too cute by half in straddling the fence between the establishment/Romney and Trump. He fell and hit himself right between the legs and will hobble away into irrelevance.
I have a feeling that after little Paulie meets with Trump and Manafort on Thursday he’s going to announce that they made him an offer he can’t refuse. LOL!
Probably going to cost him his reelection bid....
“I have a feeling that after little Paulie meets with Trump and Manafort on Thursday he’s going to announce that they made him an offer he can’t refuse. LOL!
What you have posted above will probably be what happened.
If it does, Paulie will say, “Our president delegate, Mr Trump and I are in agreement, and we are looking forward to winning this November!”
Nothing like sitting across the table from the Godfather and his consigliore to sober up a little pipsqueak. :-)
It won’t cost him his Speaker-ship; it will cost Paul Cantor his seat. Nehlen leads 49/41
Paul Ryan got too big for his Ayn Rand designed britches and is headed for the crapper. God willing of course....
And if Trump wins then there won’t be such great Washington DC lobbyist jobs for Ryan to slide into the way Eric Cantor did. Trump wins, the ranks of DC lobbyists will shrink and pay will go down.
“Paul Ryan got too big for his Ayn Rand designed britches and is headed for the crapper. God willing of course....”
“And if Trump wins then there won’t be such great Washington DC lobbyist jobs for Ryan to slide into the way Eric Cantor did. Trump wins, the ranks of DC lobbyists will shrink and pay will go down.”
Maybe he can go back to Wis. and sell cheese.
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