Posted on 12/04/2018 3:36:01 AM PST by conservative98
Trump supporters who voted by the millions in crucial swing states, including Ryan's own state of Wisconsin, wanted the Republican Congress to make good on Trump's campaign promises. They wanted to see better infrastructure, lower health-care prices, student loan reform, fair trade instead of free trade, merit-based immigration, and an end to the wars in the Middle East.
But Ryan delivered on none of this. Instead he passed a health-care bill that lobbyists crafted and Trump was lukewarm on. He fought to preserve a tax loophole for Wall Street that Trump "tried more than two dozen times" to get rid of. He also failed to pass any meaningful immigration reform. On the contrary, according to Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Ryan refused to lobby for the Goodlatte immigration bill, which would have built a border wall, enacted E-Verify procedures, and offered DREAMERS a path to citizenship. It failed to pass the House after nearly 20 Ryan loyalists voted against it.
And throughout it all, Ryan governed like deficits didn't matter: The deficit has ballooned, and is projected to hit $1 trillion in the next year.
Ryan failed Republicans of all stripes, and his House tenure is ending on a disastrous note: Democrats saw their biggest gains in the House in a generation in the 2018 midterms. This isn't the first time running on Ryan's agenda has cost Republicans dearly: It happened in 2011 special elections after Ryan introduced his Medicare reforms, and of course, Romney lost the 2012 presidential election with Ryan as his running mate.
Good riddance, Ryan. The GOP is better off without you.
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I’ll try hard to never have to think about Paul Ryan again... If I can.
It's the Christmas Season, so I'm going to ax forgiveness before I make my statement.
The world would be better off without paul ryan, and I'm sorry for his family's loss. He caused many of the problems that we face today, including the loss of the house.
Had the pubbies showed real balls in calling out the doj, fbi, fisa abuses, we wouldn't be in the mess we are in today.
Ryan protected them by curtailing Devin Nunes and his ability to use the tools that are available to the house committee chairmen, and so the fbi, doj and visa court judges all gave congress the middle finger.
He made Nunes sit for over 6 months, over a phony charge, which he could have fixed with the stroke of a pen.
Ryan can rot in hell, today.
We'll probably all have to. He'll be sitting over on K Street opposing conservatives on everything from border security to lower taxes to abortion on demand.
For him, this moment is what it's all been about.
Unlike in 2008, we had no one to vote for on the ticket in 2012, but we didn’t know it at the time!
Boy you could superimpose a lot of faces on that weasel.
We’ll...Ryan did have one amazing talent. He was the only guest on Hannity’s radio show that could out-yammer Sean and prevent him from getting a word in. (I know!)
A couple of years ago this was the case, and Ryan had the words and sentences spewing forth at a machine gun rate saying all the things a conservative wanted to hear. My impression was anyone talking like that is a charlatan and snake oil salesman.
When Sean bid Ryan goodbye from the segment, he had supporting words for Ryan, but Sean’s lack of enthusiasm in delivering those words of support indicated to me Sean knew he’d been lied to.
However, since then he's been a total, complete swamp creature. My guess is that Obama, embarrassed by getting schooled, pretty much found all the dirt in Ryan's life, and now Ryan is content in destroying the GOP majority in the House and being a consistent never-Trumper in exchange for millions of dollars in lobbying deals and for his secrets to be kept secret.
Not to worry. His running mate, Willard, is showing up just as he finally leaves office.
Ryan was Boehner 2.0, without the merlot. A wholly owned commodity of the Chamber of Corruption.
Good riddance, indeed.
You don’t have to find “the dirt” on someone like Ryan to manipulate them. There are plenty of emotional and monetary incentives to move them wherever you want.
No rudder? No problem!
To borrow a line from ‘Fiddler on the Roof’, May God bless and keep Paul Ryan - far away from us.
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