Greasy sociopathic Randian little fucker still thinks he has a shot at running for POTUS. That ship done sailed.
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More realistically they also make a wonderful excuse for refusing to walk the plank for the TP.
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He could be president if he had the President and Vice President removed somehow.
Ryans were also road building and construction.
herding cats is not on his resume. he isn’t all that bright, but can figure out a no win stiuation.
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Heh. The great thing about this is that, in trying to keep himself unsullied for a presidential run, he’s probably alienating a good portion of his party by putting his own ambition above their fortunes, very possibly diminishing his future chances for the nomination. A happy outcome all around; given the media’s worship of the guy (they couldn’t wait to forget about his multiple lies during the 2012 campaign, which were so plentiful and such whoppers that even they finally noticed), I’d rather not see how they’d treat Speaker Ryan.
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No shut-down, no debt default, if he has the sense God gave a guinea pig. Which is not certain.
Paul Ryan is a fascist and a moron, but I must say that opting out of running for Speaker is a smart move for him.
Fits right in with all the legislators who think that government is evil and laws are wrong.
Grading on the curve, Ryan is one of the smarter people in the House GOP, and knows that whoever steps in inherits a disaster. The part is well fucked, but, in the same vein, so are we all. Hhello, debt default and worldwide financial crisis. If that happens, there are some bridges I’m going to burn with some of my “conservative” acquaintances.
Never mind the Founding Fathers rolling in graves, what is to be done now?
I hope the adults have a plan.
I doubt it. They have short memories.
The speakership is tough on careers under normal conditions so right now this tap on the shoulder must be like… what was it Hunter Thompson wrote “Like hearing the Hound of the Baskervilles pissing and sniffing around your porch…”
Getting stomped by Smiling Joe in the debates is going to seem like summer vacation compared to what’s waiting for whomever picks up the gavel.
Well, of the original three (cough) gop “Young Guns” (double cough), set up to save the Republican party, two have already hit the skids. Makes one wonder what can be wrong about Ryan other than the obvious.
Isn’t it just too precious that The Newt volunteered to step into it?
These guys have no shame. OTOH, when’s the last time we hear from Gingrich?
Empty suit.
Due to an unforeseeable morass, the GOP and it’s lesser parts will be taking the rest of the decade off. They will leave one staunch idiot behind to eff everything up possible, that is if the other idiots can agree on which idiot to sacrificee, I mean nominate.
Maybe they should change the title to, Shutdowner of the House or, Renigger of the House. That second one came out sounding funny but it’s my fav.
There is some understory here. I believe that Pete Olson, who worked for Phil Gramm earlier, had been involved in the Young Gun project early on, but then something happened. He got into congress and eventually ended up trying to impeach Cantor. Olson is still around, and I wouldn’t be half surprised if he isn’t the “Texan” Blake Farenthold was referring to in his cryptic statements. And we thought McCarthy has trouble putting clusters of words together.
Why is it that suicide bomber is an easier sell that Speaker of the House? Eddie Munster is actively chewing his leg off to get out of that trap.
I’m thinking about the old army trick where the troops are lined up and when the Sargent barks out, “Volunteers take one step forward!”, and everybody except the clueless guy takes one step back…