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Paul Ryan Expected to Retire After Midterms

Wait, so you're telling me that the House GOP, including and especially Paul Ryan, have been lying and acting in bad faith for over a decade?

Say it ain't so, Joe.

Deficits only matter when Democrats are in power. When the GOP is in control, deficits are irrelevant and they don't care. It really is that simple.
 
If We Had A Liberal Media We Wouldn't Have Had A Paul Ryan

https://splinternews.com/if-we-had-a-liberal-media-we-wouldnt-have-had-a-paul-ry-1825304484

Other commentators have explored, at length, Ryan’s abhorrent ideology and history of dishonesty in support of that ideology. He has done nothing, in his years in office, to make the country a better place for anyone but a subset of very high net-worth individuals and families. But he does have one notable accomplishment: His entire career exposed the concept of the “liberal media” as a fiction. Because if “the media” were meaningfully liberal—if the vast majority of editors, producers, reporters, anchors, correspondents, and executives at large, corporate-owned press outlets were “liberal” in any but the most superficial sense—Paul Ryan would never have established the reputation has been accused of betraying.

No media ecosystem with a systemic liberal bias would’ve ever allowed an Ayn Rand acolyte offering warmed-over Jack Kempism to be treated as a serious person with important ideas. If rank-and-file members of the media actually evinced any understanding of ideology and political economy, Ryan simply couldn’t have gotten away with it. Imagine an avowed Marxist-Leninist ascending to the speakership as a Democrat, and a “Meet the Press” panel debating her New Economic Policy as, well, maybe a bit of a political lift, but something Republicans are really going to have to take seriously.

Ryan’s only truly canny move was that he didn’t personally engage in the culture wars (not that he rejected them—like all “mainstream” Republicans he knows that the popular culture warriors are necessary to get the unpopular supply-siders elected), making it easier for the press to treat him as a responsible alternative to Those Republicans. Ryan grasped, consciously or not, that the “liberalism” of the mainstream media is just a reflection of the geographical and professional milieu in which elite journalism is produced, and it features no actual political principles beyond cosmopolitanism. (Even that cosmopolitanism is undermined by the self-loathing instincts that lead nonpartisan journalists to constantly adopt the conservative framing of white, rural America as more “real” than urban, multi-racial America.)

Sometimes even liberal and left-wing critics of the elite political press concede to the right that, sure, even if both sides-ism and The View From Nowhere and economic pressures tend to drive the way journalists cover politicians more than personal beliefs, yes, most individual journalists are personally left-of-center. Paul Ryan taught us that even that concession goes too far—it assumes that the most influential members of the Washington press corps even understand politics well enough for that label to make sense.

They are constantly trying to tell us that they don’t.
 
That’s a great read.
 
Paul Ryan:

 
Working class whites in the midwest like this clown cause he looks like an all-American white boy and has that goofy fucking innocent look on his face and speaks with conviction about stuff which appears smart and strong to them. He is the definition of empty suit Washington lyin ass politician, what they purport to really hate. America is so stpud
 
Working class whites in the midwest like this clown cause he looks like an all-American white boy and has that goofy fucking innocent look on his face and speaks with conviction about stuff which appears smart and strong to them. He is the definition of empty suit Washington lyin ass politician, what they purport to really hate. America is so stpud

#noSAT
 

In normal times, an article like this would provide good evidence for why the GOP needs to lose control of Congress - they are basically covering up presidential wrongdoing and hiding his misdeeds. In the current climate, though, the Republican National Committee could probably use an article like this to stir up their base and get them out to vote in November - "save our dear leader from having all of his corruption exposed!"
 
Ryan really making a bid for his chapter in "Profiles in Courage."
 
"BEWARE: if the democrats win, the government might hold the president accountable and we wouldn't want that, would we?"
 
Chaplain rescinds his resignation and says Paul Ryan sent his chief of staff to ask him to resign. Which is very Trumpian of Paul Ryan.

 
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In less than 18 months Republicans have gone from "Drain the Swamp!" to "If you don't vote for us, Democrats will drain the swamp!"
 
Ryan really making a bid for his chapter in "Profiles in Courage."

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