This is a real truck that Paul Nehelen is driving around campaigning from
Posted on 05/10/2016 8:53:55 AM PDT by dennisw
A story of a small-town city council puts Paul Ryan’s shift on Donald Trump in perspective.
A friend of mine who lived in a small country town was elected to the local council. Because he is something of a gadfly, his colleagues made him speaker of the council, thinking that by promoting him to a largely ceremonial role, they were taming him.
He made one change: he had the council building lock its side entrances, so that the only entry was through the front, and made council members clock in and out like other municipal employees. They were livid — and the public was delighted.
The speaker of any deliberative body is a potentially powerful position, but has only one real weapon: the rules. (In Isaiah Berlin’s terms, if some politicians are foxes who know many things, and others are hedgehogs who know only one thing, an effective speaker is a hedgehog.)
Certainly, speakers can develop other tools — intellectual, political, and financial — but without the rules, a speaker is impotent.
Paul Ryan laid down the rules in January: as the likely chair of the Republican National Convention, he would support the party’s nominee, Trump included. That was long after Trump had announced his plans to suspend Muslim immigration, to which Ryan had objected. It was also long after Trump had made controversial remarks about Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly and after he had attacked his rivals for weeks, even bringing up Sen. Ted Cruz’s Canadian birth.
Ryan said to CNN’s Jake Tapper last week, that “you have to unify all wings of the Republican Party in a conservative movement” before qualifying for the nomination. That new requirement effectively gives Trump’s die-hard critics a veto. It also represents a subtle yet “seismic” change in the rules Ryan himself established.
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This is a real truck that Paul Nehelen is driving around campaigning from
Very creative idea and not very expensive either.
Ryan has self detonated!
ryan will go with what he thinks will keep his job.. he has no conscience as to right and wrong, it’s all political. He has so badly read the people’s anger out here, he may be misreading this one also. He thinks taking a stand against Trump will please his voters... and if it doesn’t, he’s done. I hope he’s hitched his wagon to the wrong belief... I hope they turn on him bigtime.
The speakership that he didn’t seem to want in the first place?
I think Paul has figured a way he can spend more time with his family.
Ryan has given We The People a LOT of reasons to show him the door.
I had some hope for him, but turns out he’s just another weasel in a suit and tie.
He should have never been made speaker.
We got rid of Boner, then they replaced him with more of the same.
It was dumb.
Sounds like the entire criminal class in Washington to me.
“Why Paul Ryan’s Trump Gambit May Cost His Speakership”
slight correction:
“Why Paul Ryan’s Trump Gambit SHOULD Cost His Speakership”
There is a storm coming Mr. Ryan.
You and your Friends better batten down the hatches.
Because when it hits, you are all going to wonder how you ever thought to live so Large and leave so little for the rest of us.
Ryan should go—No doubt about it.
The other side of that coin is the House members who voted him into the Speakership. They need a long, hard look, too.
Look at him! I think he's a Muslim, partnering with the White House Muslim.
Paul Ryan fancies himself as a libertarian. His hero is Ayn Rand
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7 Ways Paul Ryan Revealed His Love for Ayn Rand
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/07/7-ways-paul-ryan-revealed-his-love-for-ayn-rand.html
Paul Ryan doesn’t have a constituency beyond K Street and Wall Street.
Put him in a Hillary t-shirt and drop him off at a Trump rally.
Ryan has jumped the Trump shark.
“I think Paul has figured a way he can spend more time with his family.”
If so, may his voters make his dream come true.
He and Eric Cantor can form some sort of ousted RINOs club.
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