Discussion: GOP Rep.: We Need 'Change In Direction' From Ryan Or 'New Speaker'

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Bannon?
Nay, say I. The House is already fubar under the incompetentsincumbents. The comic-book Clausewitz is over at the WH, a wounded animal burying the hatchet with Kushner, and making sure things over there are fubar. We need him where he is

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While ryan may be what passes for a policy genius in republican circles

Seems to me thatā€™s an important point. After the healthcare debacle, he showed himself to be a absolute moron who couldnā€™t understand the basic principles of insurance. Bad move. When he was just a Congressman who was thought to ahve policy chops, he could get away with a lot of nonsense. Now, that nonsense is in the spotlight and being shown for what it always was.

Iā€™ve heard that Rump is cutting Ryan out of tax reform negotiations and the Rethug Congress is just as fractured as ever.

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Amash and his crew have misdiagnosed the problem againā€¦ The ā€˜directionā€™ problem does not rest primarily with the leadership. This problem stems from the dissociative identity disorder that is the defining characteristic of the Republican Caucus. The Republicans really are not a political party united by a common set of goals any more. They are fractured along ideological lines to the point that they cannot actually define what it means to move ā€œforwardā€. They really should abandon the fiction they are living now and resign their Republican Party membership and organize around a new political party that they can name whatever they want.

Ironically, if they did break up like this it would probably mean that they would get a Speaker that would actually unite themā€¦ Nancy Pelosi.

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Ironically, if they did break up like this it would probably mean that they would get a Speaker that would actually unite themā€¦ Nancy Pelosi.

Well, speaking of that, can anyone explain the logic behind Kansas, Democrats and Thompson?

http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article140972328.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/in-kansas-a-close-congressional-race-surprises-republicans/2017/04/10/8f0085e8-1e05-11e7-ad74-3a742a6e93a7_story.html?hpid=hp_rhp-top-table-main_kansas940p%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

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When we go home for the weekend, they give us a set of talking points. They say ā€˜here are your talking points,ā€™"

FOX: This is outrageous and offensive. This is OUR job. WE tell speaker, Trump, Hannity etc to spread the propaganda of our choice. It worked so well under Dubya.

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The problem the GOP caucus has is that there is no one else. They had a competent Speaker and threw him overboard. Now their stuck with the man-child who brings all the sophistication of the president of the undergrad college republicans. But they have no one else. Thereā€™s no one else that can win a majority vote of the caucus.

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Not that I have any sympathy for Ryan, but how very Trumpian of him. Make a complete mess of things and blame someone else.

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Amash wants the job.

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This loon thinks Ryan to too liberal!

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What GOP politician doesnā€™t do this? At least since Nixon.

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Conservatives have a history of projecting the ā€œgeniusā€ or ā€œpolicy wonkā€ labels onto precocious little shits, and parading them around by virtue of their ability to repeat a handful of cliche right-wing talking points. Remember Jonathan Krohn, and CJ Pearson? I think thatā€™s what basically Paul Ryan ever was, but the whole schtick just got way out of control.

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itā€™s always easier to blame the manager when the players perform below their skill level and introspection is harder than math for Republicansā€¦

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This guy sounds halfway intelligent. Whatā€™s he doing in the Apocalypse Caucus?

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Whereā€™s that picture of laughing Boehner?

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Unfortunately, weā€™re talking about the wrong half.

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There is a lot of contradiction in Amash. He thinks they should have worked with Democrats on a bipartisan replacement for ACA, but he also thinks he it is impossible to fix ACA. I donā€™t think he understands how things work. Yes, he was able to do some bipartisan things with Conyers et al on surveillance because they agreed on the substance. But there is no agreement on the substance of health care reform, and there is nothing but total opposition to bipartisanship as a process from Republicans, so this is either clueless or bad propaganda.

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Exactly, and thatā€™s why Iā€™m going to love Amash for the next few years.

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My guess too.

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The way I love my pet tarantula :wink:

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Trying to carve out a niche as a ā€œreasonable reactionary.ā€

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