Posted on 04/11/2018 9:41:08 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
House Speaker Paul Ryan is not seeking re-election and will retire from Congress after this year, the Wisconsin Republican announced Wednesday. "You realize something when you take this job," Ryan told reporters on Capitol Hill on Wednesday morning. "It's a big job with a lot riding on you ... but you also know this is not a job that does not last forever. ... You realize you hold the office for just a small part of our history. So you better make the most of it." He reminded reporters that he took the job "reluctantly" in 2015, when he took over from John Boehner, but Ryan also said he has no "regrets."
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Good riddance!!!!!
Paul Ryan is a good man and an effective Speaker in difficult times. He was much, much less critical of President Trump than others.
Anyone who thinks the next Speaker will mark a big improvement needs to think again.
I am not outright defending him. I just think he had an impossible job and did it with integrity and humility.
It wasn’t his ego that got in the way. It was his donors.
There’s a lot of truth in that.
There are leaders and then there are people who have titles.
My sentiments exactly..........(I’ll bet he’s running for POTUS in 2020......on the DEMONRAT ticket!!)
Rot in hell you evil POS Ryan.
This scumbag is a part of the Uniparty establishment who have fought the patriotic agenda of our President every step.
This is great news. The weeping and hiding under a bed and bed wetting has already started. One dope on another thread commented that Ryan wanted to leave before the Republicans went down below 100 seats! Ha ha ha ha cowardly moron probably never supported Trump’s revolution to begin with.
The joke here is that the Democrats actually believe this will disappoint us so much we will stay home. MORONS!!
“... but you also know this is not a job that does not last forever.”
So, in other words, it does? Sentence makes NO sense at all.
Ryan's going to run against Trump in 2020...
Holy Toledo. Maybe he’s leaving Congress, to be free to have no other job but running for president against Trump in the primaries????? Stay tuned..........
That would be it. And thanks!
He never wanted the job to begin with.
You can believe that BS if you like.
It’s not a very fun job.
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