Posted on 03/25/2016 3:45:02 AM PDT by cotton1706
If there's one thing Paul Ryan has honed during his years in Washington, it's Washington-speak.
The Speaker's March 23 address, broadcast from the Ways and Means Committee chamber – where he was surrounded only by press and House interns – is an example of just how adept he's become at it.
Whose Unity Are We Talking About, Anyway?
With soaring rhetoric, Ryan appealed for unity – unity in Congress, unity among the public, unity as a nation. We should test theories and ideas, he asserted, rather than impugning motives. The cost of political division is high, he noted; it undermines people's faith in their representatives, their faith in government. The system works, he explained, only if we have mutual respect for one another.
The problem is that Washington's elite class, of which Paul Ryan has become a top-ranking member, hasn't had any respect for the rest of us for a very long time. Consequently, yes, we have lost faith in our representatives and in our government. It's not just a bunch of us out here, frustrated over nothing. Most of the reasons for our dissatisfaction, disillusionment, and anger either reside in our nation's capital or are the brain-children of those who do.
Quite frankly, the whole of Ryan's speech comes down to this: a Washington blue-blood reminds us uncooperative plebeians that we should smile and hold hands and trust our leaders so that they can continue to inspire us with their spectacular and never-ending betrayals – betrayals such as Paul Ryan's ongoing embrace of massive spending, lopsided trade agreements, and troubling immigration policies. In fact, in light of this week's fresh attacks by radical Islamists in Brussels, Belgium, Ryan's already unpopular stance on immigration is likely growing more so by the minute.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Paul wants to be President.
I remember when Ryan was picked by Romney for his VP choice. I was thinking this guy had a great future as a conservative standard bearer.
Darn, was I wrong. Ryan has become a TOTAL sellout when it concerns true conservative principles of limited government and more power to the people rather than the elites in Washington.
I now utterly despise the guy. He is an Obama lap dog. Hope the people in Wisconsin throw him out of office forever.
DC corrupts even the incorruptible. I believe we need to ratify Article the First, bring the representative counts up to appropriate levels based on population, repeal the 17th amendment, and move to regional capitals to decentralize the federal leviathan. There’s too much money, greed, and power in that little area of the world anymore. Our nation’s capital moved around quite a bit in our nascent years. Don’t see why we couldn’t do it again.
The Uniparty, still believing it’s 1953, and that the stupid peasantry can be bought off with a few more crumbs.
The longer these clowns persist, the worse it’s going to be. The anger on all sides is at a fever pitch.
More other reason Trump needs to win Wisconsin.
Ditto
“...a Washington blue-blood reminds us uncooperative plebeians that we should smile and hold hands and trust our leaders so that they can continue to inspire us with their spectacular and never-ending betrayals...”
Amen, brother.
These Establishment Republicans make themselves despised more and more every day.
This is a great essay pointing out the disconnect these Elitists have been perpetrating on the electorate. It will stop, one way or another.
Cantorize boehner II
Washington blue-blood” with that beard he looks like an Arab. After Trump gets 1239 I can’t wait to send an F you email.
Freshman Paul Ryan talked about controlling the budget. VP candidate Ryan talked about controlling deficits. Speaker Paul Ryan undid all the automatic measures left for controlling the budget, and passed a budget that codified all the spending Obama and the democrats wanted. The Ryan budget was the icing on the cake that brought around this upheaval in the GOP.
If Ryan doesn't like the idea of Trump as the nominee, he has nobody to blame but himself and the other Republicans on Capital Hill.
The truth is he CAN be President. If no candidate has 271 electoral votes, then the election goes to the House. They will take the top three candidates and vote, one vote for each state. If no one gets 271 votes. the Speaker of the House becomes President.
The Speaker of the House is Paul Ryan.
That'll be tough, as the Wisconsin GOP machine was taken over by the Club for Growth types who rode the wave of disgust with Democrats. In a nutshell, Wisconsin is still in thrall to "progressives" (regardless of party affiliation) and scraping Ryan out of that seat isn't likely without a very energized left wing of the Uniparty.
Mr. niteowl77
Ryan will be the nominee in the contested convention.
Trump and Cruz will not have enough delegates.
Bet Romney after campaigning for boring K in Ohio, Cruz in Utah, bet he has his bags packed for Kasich in Penn.
‘I remember when Ryan was picked by Romney for his VP choice. I was thinking this guy had a great future as a conservative standard bearer.’
Me too.
One thing great about this campaign — Trump is flushing them out. Amazing, isn’t it?
And that ‘aint no ‘whine’.
Get this:
Cruz Gaming the Primary ...
Cruz Gains Delegates In Key Convention Posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/3413540/posts
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz may turn out to be the real winner of the Louisiana Republican primary. Despite losing the primary in early March by fewer than four percentage points and winning an equal number of pledged delegates, Cruz supporters scooped up five of Louisiana’s six positions on key committees intended to write the Republican National Convention’s rules and platform, The Wall Street Journal reports. Only one Trump supporter managed to receive an appointment to a senior level delegate post... [snip]
[How will tricks like this unite the base?]
Paul Ryan might have a safe seat, but no gavel is truly safe, especially during an election cycle like this.
Ryan could easily become a back-bencher unless he starts dancing to Hannity’s tune [on talk-radio] and at least pretend to be a patriot.
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