Posted on 09/06/2018 3:55:35 PM PDT by dontreadthis
The fact that House Speaker Paul Ryan said he doesn’t see a role for Congress in investigating the identity of the author of a New York Times op-ed, demonstrates that this is incompetent or complacent in what is taking place in Washington. This is no longer about just removing Trump from office. This is seriously about National Security. Such a person who is deliberately sabotaging the administration if he is working for the Democrats would make this no different than Watergate. Anyone who claims to be defending democracy is blowing their own horn. You quit and come out and say that you disagree with Trump and why. If the person is accepting anything from a third party this is really very serious for they are not leaving office. That means we have an ongoing crisis. The NY Times calling it a “high ranking” official simply means anyone in the White House.
Such an investigation is MANDATORY because this could also be a plant from a foreign government and this could also be steering us to war. You just do not know UNLESS you investigate. This is clearly trying to influence the upcoming elections. Ryan is leaving office but he seems to be clearly trying himself to sabotage his own party. So what is going on in Washington? The policy they claim to be stopping is what? Our national defense? Trade? Taxation? This is not something that should matter who is in the White House be it Hillary, Obama, Trump, or FDR. For Speaker Ryan to say he sees nothing to investigate calls into question his own competency or complacency in what is shaping up to be a conspiracy at the very least by the Bureaucracy to take control of the government back against the people.
Yes. Next question?
Ryan is a pretty boy politician. I don’t know what he really stands for, other than having a career.
Yes
I have called him the ‘Backstabber of the House’ for a year and a half.
Yes!
Si, senor!
I vote yes
DUH!
He’s all but gone. He wants to “spend more time with the family”, his “dog has AIDS”, he has a “serious cheese allergy”.....whatever.
Adios Deep State, compromised, coward MF’er.
Does the Pope sh*t in the woods?
Yes
Of course
Of course he is.
The only “skill” Ryan has is looking into the camera to tell the audience what his focus group tells him is constituents want to hear, then off camera, getting on his knees and opening his mouth to pleasure his dem masters.
It is not Ryan’s job to deal with potential personnel in the WH that don’t like Trump — that is Trump’s problem. We don’t even know if this NYT piece is true or bogus. In any event it is Trump’s job to oversee the Executive Branch and this includes hiring and firing people as needed.
Far from pretty. He looks like a Eddie Munster.
Yes.
Ever since Ryan hooked up with Mitt Romney he’s been worthless. (It’s what my sister would call the Romney curse!)
Rubbing elbows with Romney is like playing fetch with a rabid dog!
I think Ryan (Romney) and McConnell (Bush) are in the coup up to their eyeballs.
Both of them have a problem that the Democrats don’t, which is that if they are found out they are ruined.
I think the deal went down like this: There was a meeting of the swamp creatures in January 2017. They ruled out assassination, or reserved it as a last resort.
They realized that, although Trump was a tough guy and a man of the world, even he did not appreciate how deep the rot went or how much the two “enemies” on the Hill worked together.
They came up with the Mueller idea. They were pretty sure Trump could be provoked to do something that would provide a reason, no matter how flimsy, to appoint Mueller.
Ryan (Romney) promised that, IF Mueller could deliver him a fig leaf, that he could whip the necessary 25 GOP Members to send Articles to the Senate. In the beginning, Ryan (Romney) was quite sure this would be forthcoming, but he lost his nerve and is resigning.
McConnell (Bush) has had the 19 GOP Senators he needs to convict in his pocket from the beginning. Remember what Corker said when he announced that he was not running again? I sure do.
On September 25, 2017, after saying he wouldn’t run again, he said, “I also believe the most important public service I have to offer our country could well occur over the next 15 months, and I want to be able to do that as thoughtfully and independently as I did the first 10 years and nine months of my Senate career”
Now what “most important public service” between September 2017 and January 2019 do you suppose he was referring to? Why would he need to be “thoughtful and independent” to do it?
Well, if he were planning to stab Trump in the back before the November 2018 elections, he certainly could not be re-elected, and so his “independence” would be very important.
The Republican leadership has failed, failed, FAILED to support or defend their President. They lack the courage to oppose him openly, but if he falls from the unrelenting assault that they permit by their inaction, they certainly won’t shed a tear.
They disgust me.
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