Not that I really had much, but all respect for what seemed to be a saner member of the GOP is gone.
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âYou have to have an agenda. The kind of election we really want to have, itâs not the one weâre necessarily having right now," he said. "The one we really want to have is saying, âWe have ideas and solutions, letâs go win this so we earn the right to do it.ââ
Iâd say thatâs a big olâ slap at the Orange Buffoon right there.
Ya know, Paulie, youâve had the House now for 6 years. You tried to repeal Obamacare HOW MANY TIMES? Name one piece of legislation youâve passed that benefits the majority of Americans.
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But! But! What about what Kellyann Conwayâs vision. DO we want to be "staring down the barrel of a Clinton Administration? Huh! Do we???!!!
So thereâs that, too.
OrâŚWait.
Is Kellyann in conspiracy with those guns âdemonstratingâ outside the VA Dem office? Huh!
Is she?
IS??? SHE???
(((Thank Republicans!)))
There is a gloom and grayness to thingsâŚ
There certainly is, but Lyinâ Ryan has not been paying any attention to the blather spewing out of his partyâs candidates pie hole. If Paulie were to lose his seat, it would be an especially good day. Heâs a snake in the grass, the âZombie-Eyed Granny Starver,â as dubbed by Charles Pierce.
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Eddy sez what?
What?
(((Thanks Republicans!)))
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Brave Sir Ryan: âRun away! Run away!â
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More white people than the audience at a taping of âThe Lawrence Welk Showâ.
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He did this here in Madisonâat UW-MadisonâŚ
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAA!
And he insulted Bernie Sanders? Really?
Iâm surprised he made it out alive. Even Republicans here in Madison tend to be Bernie fans.
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Meanwhile, back in the real world:
After inheriting the worst economic collapse in our lifetimes, two out-of-control and unwinnable wars, skyrocketing deficits, mounting unemployment, and deteriorating relations with our allies, President Obama and the Democrats went to work implementing their vision of a better America:
- We averted a depression and laid the groundwork for the creation of 15 million private sector jobs;
- We reformed the healthcare system and provided access to 20 million Americans
- We saved two iconic automakers from insolvency
- We put an end to the Bush doctrine of pre-emptive wars;
- We finally institutionalized the idea that healthcare coverage merits a collective effort and that the wealthy and those who profit from the healthcare sector have an obligation to contribute;
- We chose diplomacy over belligerence and unilateral militarism;
- We broke the unholy alliance between Detroit and Big Oil in getting U.S. automakers â voluntarily â to double fuel mileage over the next decade;
- We broke the unholy alliance between the government and the energy sector by dismantling the corrupt and scandal-plagued Minerals Management Service in the aftermath of the disastrous Gulf oil spill;
- We forced BP to fund a multi-billion dollar damage pool in the aftermath of the Gulf spill, avoiding a decades-long Exxon-Valdez court battle and corrupt low-ball settlement;
- We passed the most stringent banking regulations in 75 years, and now have the authority to break up failing financial institutions;
- We got the banks out of the student loan business and freed up billions of dollars for student loans;
- Marriage equality is the law of the land in all 50 states;
- The President recently announced guidelines for school districts that protect the rights of transgender students;
- The President has recently issued stringent guidelines on methane emissions that will force responsible behavior in the fracking industry;
- Weâre preventing a nuclear arms race in the Middle East;
- Insurance companies can no longer deny coverage because of pre-existing conditions;
- Insurance companies now must cover contraception without co-pay;
- We capped profits for health insurance companies;
- Millions of people now have the economic security of knowing they wonât be bankrupted by medical bills;
- Renewable energy is booming
- Almost 200 countries â including China, the worldâs largest carbon polluter â have pledged to address climate change;
- We joined with the worldâs other great powers to forge an international agreement to limit Iranâs nuclear program to peaceful purposes â without firing a single shot.
- Unemployment has been cut in half;
- The deficit has been cut by more than two-thirds;
All of this was done in the aftermath of the worst financial collapse of our lifetimes, and the first truly global economic collapse in the worldâs history. And yet, even though the collapse started here, the U.S. has recovered faster than any other developed nation and has created more jobs than all the others combined.
Contrast this progress with the vision of the Republican Party, whose policies of cutting taxes and regulations for wealthy individuals and corporations, legislating outmoded and divisive notions of morality, slashing budgets for education and investments that would benefit the middle class and the poor, and returning to belligerence and unilateralism on the foreign stage would only perpetuate the privileges of special interests and maintain power imbalances by dominating others, and which do not enjoy the consent of its people.
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Pauly, you mean like Citizens United, Bush V. Gore, gutting of the VRA, Hobby Lobby, all of the âprotect womenâs health by closing down family planning centersâ laws, Voter ID (Jim Crow) laws, etc., etc., ad nauseum?
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Ahhhh!!! White out!!!
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What an excellent talk Speaker Ryan has given.
It elucidates a couple of unequivocal points:
1.) There is very, very little daylight between Trump and Ryan. Almost none.
2.) Trump ascended to the nomination precisely because of the positions taken by Ryan and the GOP.
Thank you, Speaker Ryan for elaborating, in your own words, the reasons behind your full endorsement of Donald J. Trump for President of the United States of America.
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âIf we lose the Senate, do you know who becomes the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee? A guy named Bernie Sanders, you ever heard of him?" Ryan warned. âThatâs what were dealing with in a divided government if we lose control of the Senate.â
Sound like a perfect ad targeting millennials.
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Sounds to me like GOTV efforts in Madison will be getting a major boost.
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If Hillary is elected and not the DonaldâŚwhat ever will become of us?
âThe sky is falling. The sky is fallingâ
'Oh! The humanityâŚ"
"Gasoline will be $4.50 a gallonâ
âThere will be death panels âŚâ
âAre you now, or have you ever been, a member of the communist party?â
âWell Stanley⌠hereâs another fine mess youâve gotten us into.â
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Translated back into the original Republican:
âAn America where working-class retirees wonât have to live on dog food the way I planned, where poor people continue to receive life-saving medical care, where unarmed black men can walk down the street without being shot. Where the children of deeply impoverished parents get a fighting chance to succeed, and thousands of idealistic young americans donât die in idiotic wars. Where millionaires pay closer to their fair share of taxes. Vote the straight GOP ticket or all these horrors might come to pass.â
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Carl Rove and Co. spent years trying to make âLiberalâ into a pejorative term. For a while during the 90/s it seemed to me as if that effort worked well enough that quite a few Democrats had to move to the center to be elected.
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I get it, Paulie. Government under liberal Progressives means more boring bureaucrats.
Oh âŚwait 
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Well America - you say you want change. Problem is youâll keep these same do nothing whiny assholes in office so you can complain you want change some more.
Dudley Do-Nothing acts like he matters. How cute.
Iâd rather have liberal progressive rule that provides health care, roads, airports and education than conservative backward rule that has done nothing for this nation except bring ruin, death and destruction.
Fuck conservatives. They have become a force for evil and a party of domestic terrorists.
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