But I am sure his answer to everything will be that everything is Trump's fault.
If Ryan went to a real world town hall he’d suffer a nervous breakdown. Not to mention tomato and egg splatters.
He’ll probably get the questions before hand they’ll all be softball questions like “boxers or briefs?”.
Is Ryan moving in on McCain’s territory as the left’s favorite republican?
I can’t say what I wish were to happen to him....
Let’s watch and see if he crosses his legs like a girl.
Ryan has no support left here in Wisconsin.
He’s just another gov’t “lifer”.
Just another alligator in The Swamp.
RINO Ryan is on his knees at CNN kissing the Liberals’ ass. What disgusting display.
RINO Ryan is already saying there weren’t “many sides” in Virginia during the riots.
NYT, CNN, and ABC now admit Antifa was there and they are seeking “peace through violence” but the RINOs can’t bring themselves to acknowledge Trump was correct.
CNN? Does he really expect to be treated fairly? The questions will be loaded and not substantive at all. But he’ll give responses while being made to look like a fool in an effort to try to get the CNN audience to like him. They won’t - this is a stupid thing to do and can only end badly.
Please, this will be a completely staged event to try in gin up an alternative to Trump in the republican party because the dem party appeals to nobody but the most extreme elements at the moment. This is nothing but another psyop by the deep state.
Now we know who was really pushing re-engaging in Afghanistan.
Ryan, McCain and the Chicago Media.
This is NOT going to go well.
ALL HE DOES IS TALK. Enough talk.
“I hope he gets some interesting questions.”
CNN will dutifully screen for him. I think they see an ally in Ryan.
The GOPe boi likes beatings ...
Speaker Ryan Invites a Social Doctrine Conversation
George Weigel
9 . 13 . 17
https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2017/09/speaker-ryan-invites-a-social-doctrine-conversation
CNN is not the customary locale-of-choice for a catechesis on Catholic social doctrine. But that’s what Paul Ryan, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, offered viewers of a CNN national town hall meeting on the evening of August 21. Challenged with a semi-“Gotcha!” question by Sinsinawa Dominican Sister Erica Jordan, who not-so-subtly suggested that Ryan’s approach to healthcare reform, tax reform, and welfare reform was in conflict with the Church’s social teaching, the very Catholic Speaker replied that he completely agreed with Sister Erica that God is “always on the side of the poor and dispossessed”; the real question was, how do public officials, who are not God, create public policies that empower the poor and dispossessed to be not-poor and not-dispossessed?
Congressman Ryan then laid out an approach to alleviating poverty and empowering the poor that seemed to me entirely congruent with the core Catholic social ethical principles of subsidiarity and solidarity. Solidarity with the poor is a moral imperative, Ryan agreed, but solidarity should not be measured by inputs—How many federal dollars go into anti-poverty programs?—but by outcomes: Are poor people who can live independent and fruitful lives being helped by our welfare dollars to develop the skills and habits that will enable them to be self-reliant, constructive citizens? The moral obligation of solidarity is not met by programs that perpetuate welfare dependency.
Speaker Ryan is a longstanding advocate of decentralizing and (as he puts it) “customizing” social welfare programs. That means abandoning one-size-fits-all attempts to address poverty and looking to the states, where a lot of the creativity in American government resides these days, for approaches that actually empower the poor, because they treat poor people as men and women with potential to be unleashed, not simply as clients to be maintained. Proposals to decentralize social welfare programs and give the states the funds necessary to conduct all sorts of customized efforts to empower the poor—crafted so that each “fits” the vast array of distinct circumstances we find in impoverished America—strike me as a sensible application of the social doctrine’s principle of subsidiarity. That principle, first articulated by Pope Pius XI in 1931, teaches us to leave decision-making at the lowest possible level in society, closest to those most directly affected by the policy in question. Paul Ryan thinks Washington doesn’t have to decide everything; Pius XI would have agreed.
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