Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Is Trump silencing Ryan like he did Romney?
bostonglobe ^

Posted on 03/17/2017 7:43:19 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

If you follow the logic of an unnamed White House staffer in the Atlantic, the whole idea that former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney was being considered to be President Trump's secretary of state was a ruse from the beginning.

Romney was one of Trump's biggest critics before the election. And after Trump declined to pick him for secretary of state, how could he criticize Trump going forward and not have it look like sour grapes?

“ ‘Judas Iscariot got 30 pieces of silver; Mitt Romney got a dish of frog legs at Jean-Georges. And even at that, it was the appetizer portion,’ a high-ranking White House official told me. ‘We’ve sort of taken out his larynx — how can he criticize [Trump] now?’ ”

This might be a telling lesson for House Speaker Paul Ryan. It's becoming increasingly clear that Trump is trying to make Ryan the fall guy for the failure of the health care replacement bill. If Trump is successful, the larger point will be this: Ryan can't even lead House Republicans, so what power does he actually have?

(Excerpt) Read more at bostonglobe.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: rinos; romney; ryan; trump
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021 next last

1 posted on 03/17/2017 7:43:20 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27

Sounds good to me if Ryan would STFU for once.


2 posted on 03/17/2017 7:44:38 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27

Now how does he do this to McCain and Graham? The wire tap stuff?


3 posted on 03/17/2017 7:46:14 AM PDT by Jimmy The Snake
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27

LOSERS are never contenders or to be considered seriously. Romney, McCain, HRC, Sanders and the lot of them. Nothing they do or CAN DO matters. Just diversion and blather where the media uses it to their advantage, that’s all.


4 posted on 03/17/2017 7:46:42 AM PDT by Gaffer
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27

I would hope so. While he is at it put a muzzle on crazy McCain.


5 posted on 03/17/2017 7:49:17 AM PDT by TYVets
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27
Is Trump silencing Ryan like he did Romney?

Heh. Trump goes Ahmed on ryan: "Silence! I keel you."

6 posted on 03/17/2017 7:49:53 AM PDT by Vision Thing (You see the depths of our hearts, and You love us the same...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: TYVets

What we really need is for Crazy John to resign.


7 posted on 03/17/2017 7:51:44 AM PDT by Mamzelle
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27; All
Just STFU? Ryan is a sleazy, slime-ball of the highest order. He doesn't give a damn about this country. If it were up to me, the smug bastard would be scrubbing toilets and mopping floors in airport restrooms.

This photo says it all:

 photo IMG_1182_zps08jangmj.jpg

8 posted on 03/17/2017 7:54:02 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27

There is a decided lack of leadership in congress and that has been increasingly clear. The art of legislating has been dying for a long time, this congress has many who don’t even know what the legislative process is.

If you listen carefully you can hear our forefathers cheering as congress digs out that dusty process and try’s on the cloak that was bequeathed to them. Maybe one day we can once again say “the worlds greatest deliberative body” without laughing hysterically.


9 posted on 03/17/2017 7:55:10 AM PDT by McGavin999
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27

I hope you are right. I detest Ryan.


10 posted on 03/17/2017 7:55:32 AM PDT by jch10 (President Trump, President Trump, President Trump! I just love saying that!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27
This might be a telling lesson for House Speaker Paul Ryan. It's becoming increasingly clear that Trump is trying to make Ryan the fall guy for the failure of the health care replacement bill.

Trump just said that he is 100% behind the bill.

11 posted on 03/17/2017 8:01:16 AM PDT by FreeReign
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27

Would that it were so! Trump has his work cut out for him. I think at first, he thought he had the Republican leadership at his back. He’s now discovered to his dismay that they’re a bunch of craven slimeballs out for themselves.

Dear Lord, please help President Trump put a nose ring around McConnell and Ryan, and some kind of muzzle on McCain and his paramour Graham!


12 posted on 03/17/2017 8:04:32 AM PDT by COBOL2Java ("Game over, man, game over!" (my advice to DemocRATs))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: FreeReign
Trump just said that he is 100% behind the bill.

Which one? Be careful...

13 posted on 03/17/2017 8:05:21 AM PDT by COBOL2Java ("Game over, man, game over!" (my advice to DemocRATs))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27

Well, it is Ryan’s bill, and Ryan’s house...


14 posted on 03/17/2017 8:05:28 AM PDT by gogeo (When your life is based on a false premise...you are indeed insane.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: COBOL2Java

Amen.


15 posted on 03/17/2017 8:05:30 AM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings f😜low.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27
This might be a telling lesson for House Speaker Paul Ryan. It's becoming increasingly clear that Trump is trying to make Ryan the fall guy for the failure of the health care replacement bill. If Trump is successful, the larger point will be this: Ryan can't even lead House Republicans, so what power does he actually have?

 

Exactly! This has been my arguing point for weeks now. Trump is (pretending) to support ObamaCare 2.0 to set Ryan up for the biggest failure since Obama!

And when Ryan's bill fails to get out of the Senate - there will be a general consensus to abandon ObamaCare all together and let it implode.

 

 

16 posted on 03/17/2017 8:06:47 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27

Mormons eat frog legs? Isn’t that undelightsome or something?


17 posted on 03/17/2017 8:06:51 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Jimmy The Snake

I am not sure he needs to do anything to McCain and Graham. they are making themselves look more and more irrelevant.


18 posted on 03/17/2017 8:08:26 AM PDT by arthurus
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27

Trump didn’t get to be POTUS by being stupid or bringing stupid to his staff.


19 posted on 03/17/2017 8:17:39 AM PDT by Don Corleone (.leave the gun, take the canolis, take it to the mattress.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Cobra64

Hatred, jealousy, disdain...what is Ryan really thinking in that photo?
http://politiforum.com/t/why-is-paul-ryan-accepting-funds-from-shareblue-affiliate-actblue/2889


20 posted on 03/17/2017 8:21:25 AM PDT by sanjuanbob
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson