Posted on 12/29/2016 6:13:10 PM PST by Jyotishi
House Speaker Paul Ryan said that President Barack Obama's actions against Russia should have come much sooner. (Photos: Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP; Susan Walsh/AP)
House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., thinks the Obama administration was justified in retaliating Thursday against Russia with sanctions for interfering with U.S. institutions. But he said it should've been done long ago.
Far from a full-throated endorsement of Obama's actions, Ryan's statement condemned the commander in chief for eight years of what he considers "ineffective foreign policy" that left the United States more vulnerable than it was when he took office in 2009. Nevertheless, Ryan agreed that Russia is a threat to global security.
"Russia does not share America's interests. In fact, it has consistently sought to undermine them, sowing dangerous instability around the world," Ryan said shortly after the White House announced the punishments. "While today's action by the administration is overdue, it is an appropriate way to end eight years of failed policy with Russia. And it serves as a prime example of this administration's ineffective foreign policy that has left America weaker in the eyes of the world."
Ryan's evenhanded statement is notable because President-elect Donald Trump, with whom he has had a rocky relationship, has repeatedly dismissed the U.S. intelligence community's assessment that the Kremlin interfered in the November election. The U.S. says Russian hackers were behind the cyberattacks that led to massive email leaks from the Democratic National Committee and John Podesta, Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman.
"I think we ought to get on with our lives. I think that computers have complicated lives very greatly. The whole, you know, age of computer has made it where nobody knows exactly what's going on," Trump said Wednesday of the U.S. allegations against Russia.
(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...
Headline quite misleading.
Ryan’s point is that Russia has been doing this for years including 8 years of Obama’s presidency.
Yep. Broken clock here. The kenyan knew this Russian espionage was going on. And did nothing about it.
I can’t say about the inexperience part, but I wholly agree with you on the fool part.
Keep talking, Paul. Let’s all hear how you really feel.
Let’s hear it now, before Trump has invested a lot of time and trust to you. Paul can still be quietly replaced in a few weeks if he looks like a really bad fit for the new administration.
The second Sunday of next week probably.
You just now learning that?
Excellent post, Marron.
just the establishment showing their colors
And he is proud to be known by that title, too.
Doing what?
Uniparty PR man is dangerous. Lives are at stake here, Paul Ryan. WHERE IS THE PROOF. I DO NOT TRUST POSOTUS, THE POS LIAR-IN-CHIEF.
PUT UP OR SHUT UP SCUMBAG.
Excuse me lying Ryan. What the .ell do you call Obama's Arab Spring? The Russians only took advantage of the destabilization Obama and Hillry set in motion. YOU lying Ryan spent US tax dollars for your and Obama's Syrian refugee importations. You lying Ryan are as much and more culpable for the destabilization of the US as any Russian, because YOU lying Ryan wrote the check for Obama's international community activism. AND YOU lying Ryan did absolutely nothing about the mass invasion of our southern border.
No it’s been apparent to me since approximately 2012, but definitely since 2014.
And I will admit that I am a very slow learner too. Others have probably been aware of this for far longer, I concede.
The Republicans seem to be knocking each other over in an effort to prove which one of them is the most stupid of all. It’s really hard to pick one, so I’ll just go with all of them.
The Democrats are the most pointless people in the face of the earth.
And the president is a poop throwing monkey flinging crap all over everything just as fast as he can.
Yay us!
The goofballs all seem to agglomerate on the same piece of stupidity. Ryan, McCain, Graham.
The uniparty thinks it can stay in power starting hostilities with foreign governments to deflect attention off themselves.
Ryan is a kid who has never had a real job. He damn sure has never met a payroll. These congress critters need TERM LIMITS.
I have to plead guilty myself. While we are not wearing the same shoes, we are wearing matching pairs.
Paul Ryan is an unmitigated LIAR and an Obama BOOTLICKER. Neither he nor the so-called “Intelligence” agencies have proffered a shred of evidence of Russian interference in America’s Presidential election. Everyone should mistrust everything they say pertaining to these allegations until they present the evidence.
The Establishment was defeated in 2016.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.