“I’m with you on voting rights, but I can’t do anything unless you nigras agree to pay $75 at the polling place, take a 35-page literacy test before you cast your vote, and realize your vote will only be worth 3/5 of the mighty whitey vote.”
Hey, I can’t help it if I’m a mind reader and can tell Ryan’s true thoughts and motives.
And Paul Ryan absolutely revels in dickishness and assholery, doesn’t the little entitled dear? And I heard his mother was on government assistance! She probably drives a Cadillac and buys Kristal with her Social Security. Gubmint-cheating low-life!
This is obviously no profile in courage by Ryan, but if you step back from the cowardice, it’s pretty easy to see that he is trying to play the long game, positioning himself as a supporter of voting rights if and when he seeks higher office.
The Constitution is tattooed on his abs…
Reminds me of the old joke:
“I’ll sell you some of these special M&Ms for 50 bucks. They actually make you smarter.”
“Hey, these are nothing but candy-coated rat turds!”
“Well, see?! You’re getting smarter already!”
Ironically, it just means passing the buck. If the issue is important it needs to get examined.
More like tattooed on his ass. He pulls his head out once or twice in a decade to take a gander.
Melissa Harris-Perry was attacked? I hope her injuries were minor, if any.
A male “nazi” mumbler in a Iowa hotel lobby from her account published here yesterday…shaken not injured.
So the toes of a committee chair are more important than voting rights for all Americans…
Got it.
If you’d like to discuss it, show up at Ryan’s office with a blank check.
Oh, I took your use of the verb “attacked” literally.
Ryan, always in fear of the Tea Potty’ Caucus, is, like the neutered Weeper Boehner before him, the demolished cyborg in the old classic sci-fi movie “Alien” when commenting on the crew’s chances against the monster: “You have my sympathies.”
He will be just as cowardly and craven and useless as Boehner. Strike that! He already IS !
Just a VERY recent example:
ya know… there used to be the legend of the Elephant’s Graveyard… all the elephants went to a secret place to die… if you found it you’d fine all the bones of all the dead elephants…
do you suppose there is a modern day Elephant’s Graveyard? where all Republican spines are stacked up…
Yes, it’s at the door to the Speaker’s office.
bottom-up approach to leadership
Actually it is called “leading from behind”.
Not that anybody expected more form this speaker.
Possibly too manly a verb for the offender but I was verbing the act from the insulated victim’s clearly frightened perspective.
I have strong doubts there are very many adults in Congress. And really the only way for adults to get committee chairmanships or the Speaker’s chair is to vote out the GOPers. That the GOP has gerrymandered members districts is the source of their advantage I think.
Or as I call it, pushing a rope.
Republican Official Status update: Black vote undermined, check… coming up, can we do something about that dang Susan B. Anthony and her movement?
I don’t think Ryan would let me in his office, blank check notwithstanding. He’d see the grey beard and long hair and freak. I’d be lucky to have the Capitol police not shoot me as some sort of terrorist/hippy mash up as they escort me outside…