Posted on 03/03/2016 1:25:58 PM PST by SkyPilot
House Speaker Paul Ryan said he "laughed out loud" at Donald Trump's Super Tuesday comment that the Wisconsin Republican would "pay a big price" if he couldn't work with him.
"Sometimes, reality is stranger than fiction around here these days," Ryan told reporters at his weekly press conference. The speaker said he watched Trump's comments from his office. Trump did not elaborate on his Ryan comment.
Ryan has publicly rebuked Trump twice during this presidential nomination contest. First, for calling for a ban on Muslims entering the U.S., and then this week for Trump's failure to distance himself quickly enough from white supremacists who support his campaign. Trump stated he disavowed those groups.
Ryan says he is committed to working with whoever the voters decide is the Republican nominee. He described himself as a "good-natured guy" who can work with anyone.
Ryan's comments were in stark contrast to his friend and former running mate Mitt Romney, who at the same time Thursday, issued a broadside against Trump.
Romney said the real estate mogul is unfit for office and suggested a contested convention may be in order to make sure he does not become the nominee.
Trump is the frontrunner for the Republican nomination with more state wins and more delegates than any other GOP contender. Party leaders, however, are reluctant to grant Trump that status.
Meanwhile, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., told reporters Thursday that House Republicans fostered a climate that allowed Trump to rise.
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>> So now Donald equals “the will of the people”? <<
Yep, 34% of the GOP primary electorate is all you need to run the USA.
You’re the only guy around here who is going to get this one. I’ve been holding it in my back pocket for the right time. Enjoy!
In one of the more fascinating and surreal scenes, Atticus and Scout (here known as Jean Louise) have an extended conversation about the Supreme Court, Brown v. Board of Education, and the Tenth Amendment.
Her father leaned back in his chair. He said, “Jean Louise, you’ve been reading nothing but New York papers. I’ve no doubt all you see is wild threats and bombings and such. The Maycomb council’s not like the North Alabama and Tennessee kinds. Our council’s composed of and led by our own people. I bet you saw nearly every man in the county yesterday, and you knew nearly every man there.”
“Yes sir, I did. Every man from that snake Willoughby on down.”
“Each man there was probably there for a different reason,” said her father.
No war was ever fought for so many different reasons. Who said that? “Yeah, but they all met for one reason.”
“I can tell you the two reasons I was there. The Federal Government and the NAACP. Jean Louise, what was your first reaction to the Supreme Court decision?”
That was a safe question. She would answer him.
“I was furious,” she said.
She was. She had known it was coming, knew what it would be, had thought she was prepared for it, but when she bought a newspaper on the street corner and read it, she stopped at the first bar she came to and drank down a straight bourbon.
“Why?”
“Well sir, there they were, tellin’ us what to do again—”
Her father grinned. “You were merely reacting according to your kind,” he said. “When you started using your head, what did you think?”
“Nothing much, but it scared me. It seemed all backward— they were putting the cart way out in front of the horse.”
“How so?”
He was prodding her. Let him. They were on safe ground. “Well, in trying to satisfy one amendment, it looks like they rubbed out another one. The Tenth. It’s only a small amendment, only one sentence long, but it seemed to be the one that meant the most, somehow.”
“Did you think this out for yourself?”
“Why, yes sir. Atticus, I don’t know anything about the Constitution. . . .”
“You seem to be constitutionally sound so far. Proceed.”
Proceed with what? Tell him she couldn’t look him in the eye? He wanted her views on the Constitution, then he’d have ’em: “Well, it seemed that to meet the real needs of a small portion of the population, the Court set up something horrible that could— that could affect the vast majority of folks. Adversely, that is. Atticus, I don’t know anything about it— all we have is the Constitution between us and anything some smart fellow wants to start, and there went the Court just breezily canceling one whole amendment, it seemed to me. We have a system of checks and balances and things, but when it comes down to it we don’t have much check on the Court, so who’ll bell the cat? Oh dear, I’m soundin’ like the Actors Studio.”
“What?”
“Nothing. I’m— I’m just trying to say that in trying to do right we’ve left ourselves open for something that could be truly dangerous to our set-up.” She ran her fingers through her hair. She looked at the rows of brown-and-black bound books, law reports, on the wall opposite. She looked at a faded picture of the Nine Old Men on the wall to the left of her. Is [JB: Owen?] Roberts dead? she wondered. She could not remember.
Her father’s voice was patient: “You were saying—?” “Yes sir. I was saying that I— I don’t know much about government and economics and all that, and I don’t want to know much, but I do know that the Federal Government to me, to one small citizen, is mostly dreary hallways and waiting around. The more we have, the longer we wait and the tireder we get. Those old mossbacks on the wall up there knew it— but now, instead of going about it through Congress and the state legislatures like we should, when we tried to do right we just made it easier for them to set up more hallways and more waiting—”
Her father sat up and laughed.
“I told you I didn’t know anything about it.”
“Sweet, you’re such a states’ rightist you make me a Roosevelt Liberal by comparison.”
“States’ rightist?”
Atticus said, “Now that I’ve adjusted my ear to feminine reasoning, I think we find ourselves believing the very same things.”
She had been half willing to sponge out what she had seen and heard, creep back to New York, and make him a memory. A memory of the three of them, Atticus, Jem, and her, when things were uncomplicated and people did not lie. But she would not have him compound the felony.
She could not let him add hypocrisy to it: “Atticus, if you believe all that, then why don’t you do right? I mean this, that no matter how hateful the Court was, there had to be a beginning—”
“You mean because the Court said it we must take it? No ma’am. I don’t see it that way. If you think I for one citizen am going to take it lying down, you’re quite wrong. As you say, Jean Louise, there’s only one thing higher than the Court in this country, and that’s the Constitution—”
He was a zero as a VP candidate and he doesn’t care that the press is using him to bash republicans.
The past couple of weeks have convinced me that my plan for November is the soundest one for me. I will vote for Trump. Down ticket I will vote against every single incumbent, including my “conservative” congressman who now supports Rubio, having previously supported Bush.
” emotionally hysteresis useless attack bot vomit “
LOL...Johnnie, no one does adjectives as well as you do!
ryan is a weak part timer.
Trump commands a pissed off large army. Point Trump.
Don’t forget the libs that crossed over to vote for the pro-choice Trump
Yes, and they are voting in the primary. Good luck trying to reach any more voters
Even if its illiterate
“Paul Ryan:
The guy who supported 100% of 0bama’s Liberal priorities, especially 0bamaCare and Executive Amnesty.”
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And TPP, with Cruz, in the Wall St. Journal.
Fast track’ authority will give lawmakers more say over agreements that are vital for economic growth.
By
Paul Ryan And
Ted Cruz
April 21, 2015 7:36 p.m. ET
http://www.wsj.com/articles/putting-congress-in-charge-on-trade-1429659409
Yes you are WINNING!
> “Yes. Criticism of The Donald is not allowed.”
One can criticize Trump all they want to their heart’s desire.
But such critics seem so shocked when they see a pushback thrown at them as if counterarguments are verboten in their little Lindsey world.
Thanks I know! Schlonging left and right, calling people names, I love to be a winner!
Paul Ryan personifies everything that is wrong with the Republican Party.
Ryan looked like such a girly man next Biden as he was being bashed during the 2012 VP debate. The GOPe was desperate to get Ryan as Speaker.
A few words for Mr. Ryan: Remember Mississippi and Eric Cantor.
Like a typical liberal, Ryan is taking one out of the Alinsky playbook.
If in fact they tried to impeach Trump on bullchit I will be first in line to buy tar and feathers commodities. The chit would hit the fan. Congress couldn't bother to get off their a$$e$ to take on the Magic Kenyan for all the unconstitutional crap he pulled...then to go after Trump as President. Don't think that will sit well with conservative Americans.
Well cheer up there’s still time for Teddy to run in the Canadian primary. :-)
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