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Another day, another rewrite of Sunset Boulevard by Paul Ryan, the zombie-eyed granny starver from the state of Wisconsin. Not content with Monday's fan dance of gilded pusillanimity, "sources close" to Speaker Paul Ryan—and very likely simultaneously wearing his socks and underwear—have taken to deliver Act II of Hamlet On The Banks Of The Rock River. And it's pretty much what you expected, if you happen to be a middle-school drama teacher. In fact, Ryan has personally been on the edge of pulling the plug but has held out because his decision is about more than just his personal feelings:...

Donald Trump unleashed the fury of his Twitter account on his GOP critics Tuesday, accusing them of being fair-weather backers and insisting that he's better off without their "shackles," and he can now run the kind of campaign he wants. At first glance, though, the new Mr. Trump looked a lot like the old Mr. Trump -- with House Speaker Paul D. Ryan and Sen. John McCain targeted... "Disloyal R's are far more difficult than Crooked Hillary," he said in another tweet. "They come at you from all sides. They don't know how to win -- I will teach them!"...

On Friday, the Clinton Campaign (Washington Post) released video of Donald Trump bragging about grabbing p*ssy in an off the record conversation with Billy Bush. There are “rumors” that Paul Ryan’s close advisor #NeverTrumper Dan Senor is behind the leaks.

By now, everyone has heard of the bombshell of the leaked Trump-Bush tape, in which Donald spoke of "grabbing them right in the ..." well, you know. It was wildly hailed as the end of the world; the more so, as a number of leading Republicans (Paul Ryan and John McCain among them) loudly pulled aside their skirts, and said they could not support Trump, urging the rest of the GOP to follow them. Within a day, however, Trump had recovered his poise; holding a press conference before the scheduled debate the next day, with women who had been sexually...

Are there any central sources for where Republican all the congressional candidates stand on Trump's candidacy, and how they have reacted to the "crisis"? I would also like to here Freepers individual experience with their local candidates actions. We should not throw out the baby with the bathwater. Despite betrayal, I believe a Republican Congress is preferable to a Democratic one.

Earlier in his remarks, Trump said occasionally "our own party gets in the way" of his campaign. "Sometimes it's harder to beat our own party than it is to beat the person on the other side," Trump told donors. Trump previewed that message earlier Tuesday on Twitter, railing against Ryan as a "very weak and ineffective leader." Trump kept up the criticism at the fundraiser, suggesting Ryan should focus more on budget issues than criticizing the GOP nominee — and even reaching back to Ryan's time as Republican Mitt Romney's running mate in the 2012 presidential race. "This guy lost...

There have been a number of questions raised about the release of 11-year-old comments made by GOP nominee Donald Trump. On Monday, Jerry Falwell, Jr., President of Liberty University, told Rita Cosby he has evidence that the audio was leaked by GOP elites, although he was unwilling to go any further. Making matters worse, it appears that a top adviser to Speaker Paul Ryan may have been the source of the audio. “I think this whole tape… video tape thing was planned, I think it was timed, I think it might have even been a conspiracy among establishment Republicans...

Top Donald Trump adviser Ben Carson came to House Speaker Paul Ryan’s defense on Tuesday and criticized the GOP nominee for exacerbating an intra-party feud less than a month before the election. “Paul Ryan is being very pragmatic,” Carson said in an interview with The Hill. “He recognizes that if Donald Trump loses, Hillary Clinton needs a firewall so she can’t do whatever she wants. He wants to make sure to keep the firewall there, so he’s devoting his energy to doing that.” Trump laid into Ryan in a series of tweets on Tuesday morning, calling the Speaker “weak and...

Yesterday, Paul Ryan announced he would stop defending Trump and told other GOP members to fend for themselves. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) response: "Despite winning the second debate in a landslide (every poll), it is hard to do well when Paul Ryan and others give zero support!" - 8:16 AM - 11 Oct 2016 "Our very weak and ineffective leader, Paul Ryan, had a bad conference call where his members went wild at his disloyalty." 9:05 AM - 11 Oct 2016 "It is so nice that the shackles have been taken off me and I can now fight for America...

Well, the next 28 days will be interesting, to say the least. Donald Trump started this morning with an attack on Paul Ryan: Despite winning the second debate in a landslide (every poll), it is hard to do well when Paul Ryan and others give zero support!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 11, 2016 Our very weak and ineffective leader, Paul Ryan, had a bad conference call where his members went wild at his disloyalty.— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 11, 2016 And then he just basically declared war on the rest of the GOP: It is so nice that...

Since Donald Trump took the gloves off the liberal elites have opted to employ their own new strategy of naked betrayal. Dobbs notes the difficulty that the elites are having with Trump, now recognizing that he is truly a threat to their status quo cronyism to a much greater degree than they had earlier been willing to believe. Noting that Trump made his fortune before entering into politics rather than as a result of it, and the threat that he presents, he’s “far too close for further laxity among the elites. They are taking him now seriously, so seriously they...

Trump has begun tweeting against Ryan. Within the last hour: Our very weak and ineffective leader, Paul Ryan, had a bad conference call where his members went wild at his disloyalty. AND Despite winning the second debate in a landslide (every poll), it is hard to do well when Paul Ryan and others give zero support!

No need for much blabber!!! The picture is as clear as can be. Paul Ryan is destroying the entire Republican Party and is taking our country down, at the same time. I suggest, the Republicans in the House fire him immediately, and. elect a new Speaker of the House that fully supports the Republican ticket from A-Z. Have you representatives have no back bone??? This dude Ryan is poison for anything he and his ilk touch!!! Come November 8th, if Hillary Clinton is elected POTUS....suppported fully by your own House Speaker, Paul Ryan, your political party will go into history...

The stream of down-ballot Republicans breaking with the Trump campaign over Mr. Trump's past vulgar language has now been capped by the notice from House speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) that "he will not defend or appear with" Mr. Trump, and that "rank-and-file" Republicans are on their own "to do what's best" in their districts. Ryan's counterpart in the Senate, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), for his part, is giving the presidential campaign controversy the silent treatment: "I don't have any observations about it."  But The Hill observes: More than a dozen senators have either rescinded their support of the GOP...

Heard on @Cernovich that the RNC is denying funds to the Trump campaign...funds he helped raise. RNC is inserting moles, purging Trump loyalists, and attempting to sabotage his campaign. Also, @Cernovich states that Ryan's henchmen had a part in the Trump tape. ‏@Cernovich RAISE HELL WITH THE RNC AND PUT THEM ON NOTICE!!!!

“Nothing has changed in regard with our relationship,” RNC Chairman Reince Priebus reportedly stated during a phone call with members of the RNC Monday afternoon. “We are in full coordination with the Trump campaign. We have a great relationship with them. And we are going to continue to work together to make sure he wins in November.”

The House speaker, Paul D. Ryan, dealt a hammer blow to Donald J. Trump’s presidential candidacy on Monday, dashing any remaining semblance of Republican unity and inviting fierce backlash from his own caucus by announcing that he would no longer defend Mr. Trump. Mr. Ryan’s stance drew an immediate rebuke from Mr. Trump, who posted on Twitter that Mr. Ryan should focus on governing “and not waste his time on fighting Republican nominee.” Mr. Ryan informed Republican lawmakers on a morning conference call that he would never again campaign alongside Mr. Trump and would dedicate himself instead to defending the...

Speaker Paul Ryan told House Republicans Monday that he won’t campaign with — or defend — Donald Trump and he urged his members to “do what’s best for you” in the month left before Election Day. In a stinging rebuke to his party’s presidential nominee, the nation’s top elected Republican told fellow GOP members in a conference call that protecting the party’s House majority must be their priority going forward. “The speaker is going to spend the next month focused entirely on protecting our congressional majorities,” Ryan’s spokeswoman, AshLee Strong, said in a statement. During the call, Ryan said he...

Just in! Trump fires back at Paul Ryan: "Paul Ryan should spend more time on balancing the budget, jobs and illegal immigration and not waste his time on fighting Republican nominee" 1:22 PM - 10 Oct 2016

A petition to recall Speaker Lyin' Paul Ryan is now up on Whitehouse.gov site. Let's roll!!!