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.
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et tu Paulae
I'm afraid it is worst than that. A fool doesn't realize what they are doing. Ryan is actually an experienced stooge of the Open Border Globalists that control both parties. On most issues, there is very little policy difference between Paul Ryan and Hillary Clinton.
This Seditious Pr*ck needs to be jettisoned from power quick. Hopefully Trump can arrange something here.
Actually a cage would be more effective - Never Ryan!
Never support Paul Ryan for any elective office he ever seeks!
Choke on it Ryebald!
[[Ryan really enjoys shooting himself in the foot]]
Correction- Ryan really enjoys shooting hte GOP in the back
Ryan, Graham, McCain. Idiots.
Well, there goes Ryan’s left foot.
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F___ You Paul Lyan!
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The scumbag didn’t even wait until the inauguration to plunge the first dagger into Trump’s back.
Democrats are very upset they’ve been exposed and that includes Ryan, McConnel, Rubio, Graham and McCain.
They’re doing everything they possibly can to prevent the draining.
I have yet to hear what the Russians DID to influence the election. How did they make Trump win?
Obama is trying to start a WAR with Russia!!
Ryan is only there because the establishment put him there. Trump now owns the establishment.
Trump is not investing any trust in Ryan. All one needs to reinforce that point is his direct comment at Ryan at the Wisconsin Thank You Rally. “We’re going to build the wall, Paul.”
Trump is merely on cruise control to high noon on 1/20/17. Then as I thought he might, will take the oath, do a very shortened parade from as much as 4-6 hours down to 1 hour, maybe 1.5 hours and get right to work before the only 3 Balls, formerly 9-10.
Then, at 0300 on the 21st, Ryan will get the wake-up call he never thought he would get and it is not something he will need any coffee to chase out the cobwebs.
The report mentions "election" 3 times and it's 16 pages long, single spaced. never specifically says the elections were hacked. It could have been written about China, N. Korea, even us...
Russia is not the enemy. The enemy is slaughtering and beheading in the name of Islam around the world - including on our very shores.
That is unbelievably revealing, and shocking.
the fake news campaign has duped you into shifting you attention to your normal hatred if Ryan.
The fact that Russia has accomplished what is not in our best interest doesn’t mean the Big Lie about election tampering is true.
They succeeded ....... they got ‘cha
I suppose Ryan supports arming isis and al qaeda in Syria to fight Russia ally, Assad. Obama is supporting open warfare with Russian allies, to further extend hi effort to hand the Middle East to Muslim terrorists. (Isis, alqaeda, Muslim Brotherhood)
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