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Paul Ryan says lawmakers climb ranks of Congress by ‘being an entertainer’
The hill ^ | 05/28/2022 | Lexi Lonas

Posted on 05/28/2022 11:08:18 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Former Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said in an interview Thursday that there is a difference between the way lawmakers climb the ranks in Congress now and 10 years ago, adding that lawmakers in both parties today are “entertainers.”

“In the old days, like 10 years ago, if you wanted to do really well in Congress, if you wanted to succeed, you climbed a meritocracy. The measurement of success was policy and persuasion,” Ryan said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”

“That’s not necessarily what motivates people anymore. There’s a lot of entertainers in Congress from both parties,” he said.

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You're part of the program so STFU
1 posted on 05/28/2022 11:08:18 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Entertainers?

Lots of people here use the phrase, “Rising star” to describe politicos they like. Disgusting.


2 posted on 05/28/2022 11:12:52 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

So why was he playing Eddie Munster during his time?


3 posted on 05/28/2022 11:14:44 AM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If Paul Ryan was swinging from a gallows,
piles of dry wood piled around,
would anybody stop to lite a match, or just watch?
or just cheer?

Digging this phooker up to put on TV is crime in itself.


4 posted on 05/28/2022 11:14:49 AM PDT by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Ryan did the old fashioned way.

He lied his way to the top.


5 posted on 05/28/2022 11:14:54 AM PDT by RedMonqey (Fu%k the Ballot box. Now the Cartridge Box)
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To: dragnet2

We need real leaders like Lincoln or Washington.


6 posted on 05/28/2022 11:15:15 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Meritocracy, measured by how much money can you raise? Bitch McConnell and Pelowsi, are campaign raising machines. As are newcomers AOC, Pramila Pay-pal and the Islamists.


7 posted on 05/28/2022 11:15:53 AM PDT by Glad2bnuts ((“If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer,)
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I’ll settle for Trump.


8 posted on 05/28/2022 11:15:54 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I never found PRyno entertaining.


9 posted on 05/28/2022 11:17:23 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: dragnet2

More accurate to say they want to be entertainers, in keeping with Rush Limbaugh’s description of DC politics as “Hollywood for the ugly.”


10 posted on 05/28/2022 11:19:32 AM PDT by DPMD ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I don’t necessarily disagre with him in principle on that. However, its true at all political levels and has been going on for much longer then 10 years. Started with the dawn of the mass media age and TV accelerated it. He’s just as guilty of it as the rest of them.


11 posted on 05/28/2022 11:20:05 AM PDT by Reily
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ENTERTAINERS???? Is he INSANE??? There is NOTHING ENTERTAINING about DEMOCRATS and RINOS!


12 posted on 05/28/2022 11:22:19 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenienc)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I agree. They just entertain. All one has to do is watch the hearings. They are just there for the sound bites. Nothing ever happens.


13 posted on 05/28/2022 11:32:01 AM PDT by roving
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Paul Ryan lacks merit and he isn't entertaining.
14 posted on 05/28/2022 11:32:43 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Paul Ryan was the Speaker (out of both sides of his mouth) of the House. Makes my top 10 list of worst Republicans ever.


15 posted on 05/28/2022 11:35:03 AM PDT by inchworm (al )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Hey Paul Ryan. ESAD!!!


16 posted on 05/28/2022 11:38:45 AM PDT by ohioman
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PR was a great ventriloquist entertainer.

Corporate hand up his rear, spouting believable sound bites, such a good actor / entertainer the public didn’t realize til later he only pretended to speak for them.


17 posted on 05/28/2022 11:40:56 AM PDT by jcon40 (Machinery is only as good as its design and quality of parts. A citizen is only as good as...)
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Everyone knew, but Ryan and Fox Lied.

Fox agreed as a Network to keep Hunter Biden out of the Presidential Debate. Zero Questions on Hunter or Biden Ethics.



18 posted on 05/28/2022 11:42:10 AM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Lindsey Graham: How can anyone be Mad at Joe Biden)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Ryan is providing cover for his good friend Nancy Pelosi


19 posted on 05/28/2022 11:47:29 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Rush Limbaugh said that politics was show business for ugly people.


20 posted on 05/28/2022 11:48:14 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Contempt for pre-born human life breeds contempt for post-born human life.)
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