McConnell should follow his lead...
That’s what’s so interesting. President Trump doesn’t have to drain the swamp. It’s self-draining.
This punk will now do everything he can to stop Trump, just like flake and mccainiac. There is no tomorrow for him and he hates the fact that Trump was elected against ryan’s wishes.
if he loses an election, he cannot take his warchest with him. if he retires, he can.
Well, the RINO’s are dropping like flies. I’d like to see more Lying Leftist Dems gone as well.
Very strange how these Ryan articles are written.
If he is truly stepping down, he needs to say so and let the electorate in his district know.
Or is it he plans to run and then retire after winning so that the people can’t vote on a replacement?
Very strange how these Ryan articles are written.
If he is truly stepping down, he needs to say so and let the electorate in his district know.
Or is it he plans to run and then retire after winning so that the people can’t vote on a replacement?
With this news coming out, will he even run for re-election to his House seat in Nov 2018? Isn’t his power eroded also, now that we know he plans to leave?
Hmmm. Ryan was in trouble in Wisconsin, as well as in DC.
Wonder who will replace Ryan, in Wisconsin? Governor Walker rather came around to Trump, didn’t he?
Paul Ryan came close, VERY close to becoming the second most powerful man in the world. He fought a long, crazy campaign with Mitt Romney. Whether or not Paul has RINO tendencies, he did put forth a lot of effort. It’s understandable that everything after that experience pales in comparison.
The ongoing problem with Ryan is he was not truly a leader, and lacked the skill set, the overly inflated ego of those who do make more effective Speakers of the House. Someone like Newt Gingrich is often what it takes to herd all those cats.
“intern, waiter, junior think-tanker, Hill staffer and, since 1999, as a member of Congress”
Just like that scoundrel Lyndon B. Johnson—bellying up to the trough and helping himself.
The framers never anticipated elected government employment becoming a lucrative, life-long career.
It was to be a short period of time in which you set aside your real life as a farmer, lawyer, whatever, to serve the public.
At least Ryan never awarded himself a Silver Star for flying as a passenger in the Pacific theater. We may have to start over. The professionals are running things into the ground.
Evaporation can be a friend.
Ryan obviously worked with the hate Trump, hate America leftists at Politico for some time on this story.
Yet Ryan made no announcement to his constituents.
This is one of the things wrong with Washington. Representatives see their job as working with the insider media and ignoring their constituents.
Glad to see him put his family first. Kids are gone from home fast enough. More should follow his lead but more on the other side of the aisle have GREAT grandchildren . . . much less school aged kids of their own at home.
Good for him.
He’s not the worst. Mitch is the worst of thew RINOS.
Gee, what an opportunity, maybe we can get ol’ Boner back.....
(Kidding, kidding, kidding, kidding.......)
From the article:
Less than an hour before the polls closed on November 8, 2016, Ryan made the phone call hed been dreading. With a handful of staffers and family members lingering nearby, Ryan was patched through to senior officials at the RNC in Washington. They had been analyzing voting patterns and running turnout models throughout the day, and were prepared to share their projections with the speaker: Donald Trump was going to go down in flames, earning just 220 electoral votes. Republicans would lose nearly 20 House seats. Democrats would retake control of the United States Senate. Exactly the debacle Ryan had feared.
Stewing inside his teams war room at the Holiday Inn in Janesvillethe site of his own election night partyRyan could not stomach the thought of working with President Hillary Clinton. That said, he wasnt exactly thrilled about working with Trump, whose campaignfueled by anger, resentment and nativismwas, in his view, a rejection of conservatisms highest ideals. As disappointed as he was about Clintons apparent victory, the speaker saw a silver lining: He would seize the occasion of Trumps defeatbeginning that nightto speak about a return to an inclusive, aspirational, Jack Kemp-inspired happy warrior conservatism, and a rejection of Trumpism.
But Ryan never got the chance. His own race had been called early, and attendees waited patiently in the ballroom for his victory speech. But the speaker was paralyzed in the war room, watching in disbelief as Trump surged past Clinton in the pivotal battlegrounds of Florida and North Carolina. The RNCs numbers, his advisers told him, were garbage: the GOPs Senate majority appeared safe, only a handful of House Republicans were losing, and if the current trends held, Trump was going to win the biggest upset in presidential history.
On election night, the RNC was predicting a Clinton landslide and a Democrat takeover of the Senate.
What a loser.
“That said, he wasnt exactly thrilled about working with Trump, whose campaignfueled by anger, resentment and nativismwas, in his view, a rejection of conservatisms highest ideals”
Conservatism’s highest ideals? Like being a punching bag and bending over for the MSM, Dems and their name calling globalist agenda?