Paulie’s patting himself on his well defined deltoids because he’s convinced the party of stoopid that he’s the smart one when he’s only another dunce but with a better build and smoother patter.
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Okay got it. He must have figured by new year he will be able to have much more time with family. Otherwise this is too stupid a move to make sense.
… or he is just too stupid, actually.
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The scent of power is too hard to resist
[/quote]In this case, the scent of power is manure, and Ryan is trying any thing, any way, to keep the shit from getting on his nose. I don’t know whether to chuckle with glee as Ryan has to smell their shit, or feel pangs of pity since the assholes doing the shitting make Bibi Netanyahu seem like a hippie.
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Maybe so; PROBABLY so, even. But that doesn’t really address why this is being seen by him, or rather by the hedge funds, Wall Street investment house banksters & Chamber of Commerce stake-holders behind him, as necessary.
First, they need the debt ceiling raised, and this looks like the only possible way that gets down. It’s impossible to run their casinos and other scams without the life blood of a currency the rubes can count on holding some value, and as much of it as they can get. There’s actually no way around this: if the full faith & credit of the nation’s currency is brought into question, the one tenth of one percent who own and run this rigged game are out of TON of value, and indeed the whole rotten rigging may come crashing down.
Second, the Chamber’s been push for not just a budget for next year but more to their membership’s interest, a bunch of infrastructure and platform programs that can’t wait any more, starting with highways, into bridges and waterways, particularly port upgrades, and of course the TPP. All these quite normal bones and sinews on which this nation depends to flex its domestic and global economic muscles are badly starved and in atrophy. It’s no longer open for Bidnitz America to wait til the second year of the term of the newly elected POTUS to release the infrastructure spending. It SHOULD have happened in the STIM, but it only did for the Green Energy sector because the Congressional GOP and Blue Dog and Bank massaging Dems clogged the STIM with deductions that mostly only served the one tenth of one percent and Big Corp. So by 2018 we’ll be another eight years beyond the critical phase we’d already hit several years before.
Third, the owners of the GOP are so shit-scared of Trump, and to some degree Carson as well, but more of the continuing internal problem the Freedumbers and Teapsters pose for the GOP’s long successful business model of selling out its members massed votes (the real key to why being an R is so fracking lucrative), they’re convinced they’ve got to risk burning Ryan’s long term future in order to get rid of or damp the Huelskamps of their caucus, while they try to figure out a way to regain their control over the primary process.
Fourth, the granny-starver had to be convinced, & convince himself, he’s got zero future in presidential politics, or none UNLESS he does something that strikes the morons and nincompoops in the GOP base as ‘bold’, PLUS it works.
Of course this won’t last. Ryan doesn’t have the ‘skill set’ (if that’s what we can agree to call the ‘talents’ of Dennis the Shower Menace Hastert and Teary l’Orange) to appease a dynamic made up of vote peddlers and batshit crazoids. I see Ryan staying just long enough to get Boehner’s package of essentials thru the House, then telling the GOP, if you need me again, send up the batshit signal and I’ll consider coming right away in the batshitmobile.
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No way he could be a “a unifying figure” since he promised to abide by the Hastert rule. So he will be continually blackmailed by the same 40 nut jobs that made Boehner’s life miserable.
Too bad the rest of us have to ride the roller-coaster yet again; will they shut down the government? Will they destroy the nation’s credit? Will the dollar become worth less and less, meaning we all pay more and more for everything? The economist who doesn’t deal with numbers is now in charge. Heaven help us.
My prediction is that Paul Ryan will squeak in with just over 218 votes, and then be treated just as was Speaker Boehner, while nothing changes, and almost nothing is accomplished. Ryan will be gone before the election in November of 2016.
Cavers always regret.
But this ins’t the Hastert Rule.
It’s the new Boehner rule / HFC rule.
The Hastert rule was that a piece of legislation had to have the support of a majority of the majority party. The new rule appears to be that the legislation must be able to achieve a majority of the House using only members of the Majority party.
It’s a pretty big distinction, actually. 200 Reps out of 245 plus 30 Dems to get a majority passes the Hastert rule since 200 > 245/2. But Boehner usually only brought forward votes on this basis when there was no other option.
Our long national nightmare will soon be over – the Great Unifier is here!
The Far Right and the Extreme Right are become as one.
I really can feel the love!
Worthy of note: When did the Constitutionally-mandated “Speaker of the House” position become “Speaker” of only one party, the majority party? When did, as a result, the majority party get to write “Rules for Conducting Business in the House of Representatives” which excluded, hindered, and hogtied those representatives who were not of the majority party? And why is it that in this tri-partite government no Representative who has been rendered obscure, inefficient and unable to fully “represent” citizens of his district has ever sued a Speaker or a “conference” of representatives for obscuring in this way a member or members of the minority party?