Who is responsible for the impeachment circus?

[Right_in_Virginia]

Who is responsible for the impeachment circus?
American Thinker, Sep 27, 2019, Peter Surkiss

Who is responsible for the current overhyped impeachment frenzy? The culprits are many. There's the radical left that, although small in number, is extremely vocal and influential in the media, the entertainment world, and beyond. Then there are the Democrats. As a group, they driven by an unbridled lust for political power, and there's no length they won't go to in trying to destroy the president. The media certainly plays a major role. It takes Democrat talking points, dresses them up as objective reporting, and presents them to the public, many of whom are unfortunately still oblivious to the propaganda being feed them.

But none of this would matter if it weren't for one man -- Republican Paul Ryan.

Paul Ryan was Speaker of the House from October 2015 to January 2019. He was also the 2012 vice presidential nominee for the Republican Party running with the hapless Mitt Romney. When Donald Trump became president, this gave the Republicans control of the presidency, the House, and the Senate. This was a golden opportunity to move the Trump agenda forward.

And it would have been accomplished -- except for Ryan. As leader of the GOP in the House of Representatives, he engaged in ankle-biting the president and dragging his feet otherwise. Trump has thundered that Ryan was "weak, ineffective, and stupid" as House speaker.  Ryan was all that only if one assumes he was on the same team supporting the president and the American middle class. But if Ryan was instead serving big moneyed globalists and Wall Street, then he was smart and highly effective -- as a saboteur.

In the 2018 election, the Republicans lost control of the House. Contrary to media spin, this was not a repudiation of Donald Trump nor was it preordained. It was a judgment on an inept House of Representatives headed by Paul Ryan. Whether it was out of sheer incompetence or duplicitous design on Ryan's part, it doesn't matter. The fact is the Democrats took the House from under the nose of Ryan.


More:  https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/09/who_is_responsible_for_the_impeachment_circus.html

[Right_in_Virginia]

FTA

With control of the House goes the committee chairmanships. Without that, all the intemperate calls for impeachment and fallacious investigations of the president would just be background noise, and instead investigations would be focused where they belong and that's the deep state's attempted coup.

When it comes to placing blame for what is happening in Washington, j'accuse Paul Ryan, demonstrating that the enemy within is more dangerous than the one outside the walls.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Report: Paul Ryan Pushing Fox News to ‘Decisively Break’ with Trump
Breitbart, Sep 26, 2019

Former House Speaker Paul Ryan, who currently sits on the board of Fox Corp., is reportedly urging Fox News to “decisively break” with President Donald Trump, according to a Thursday Vanity Fair report documenting the network’s “management bedlam.”

Vanity Fair’s Gabe Sherman, citing four sources, reported that Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch, who has long tried to move Fox News to the center, “is already thinking about how to position the network for a post-Trump future.”

Ryan, the longtime Trump antagonist, has reportedly been suggesting to Murdoch that “Fox should decisively break with the president” as Murdoch holds “strategy conversations with Fox executives and anchors about how Fox News should prepare for life after Trump.”

More:  https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/09/26/report-paul-ryan-pushing-fox-news-to-decisively-break-with-trump/

[Absalom]

Voters who keep sending the same jackasses to DC election after election after election..................

[Cyber Liberty]

Voters who keep sending the same jackasses to DC election after election after election..................

Yup.  The real trouble began when the takers started outnumbering the makers.  Since people are under the mistaken notion we're a democracy, they see nothing wrong with electing people who promise to loot others on their behalf.  What's that old saying?  "If you rob Peter to pay Paul, you can count on Paul's support." 

It takes a democracy to give voters the illusion of being moral while looting.

[Absalom]

Yup.  The real trouble began when the takers started outnumbering the makers.  Since people are under the mistaken notion we're a democracy, they see nothing wrong with electing people who promise to loot others on their behalf.  What's that old saying?  "If you rob Peter to pay Paul, you can count on Paul's support." 
It takes a democracy to give voters the illusion of being moral while looting.

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On the mark!
An observation derived from your comment.
We have been independent for some 200+ years.
Over that timeline our focus on material betterment has exploded to a level that has
effectively obliterated our awareness of the vital importance of the spiritual in our lives.
The condition of our core Religions as well as the quality of the "Art" we create, being
mute testament to that reality.

[verga]

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On the mark!
An observation derived from your comment.
We have been independent for some 200+ years.
Over that timeline our focus on material betterment has exploded to a level that has
effectively obliterated our awareness of the vital importance of the spiritual in our lives.
The condition of our core Religions as well as the quality of the "Art" we create, being
mute testament to that reality.

The Art we have "created" includes Piss Christ, Elephant Dung Mary, etc.... Nothing remotely spiritually uplifting.
we follow that up by electing "leaders" that are more concerned with staying in power than in serving and leaving. It is not longer public service, but personal gain. Our last great hope was the TEA party, but you see whta happened when they got to the swamp.

[Cyber Liberty]

The Art we have "created" includes Piss Christ, Elephant Dung Mary, etc.... Nothing remotely spiritually uplifting.
we follow that up by electing "leaders" that are more concerned with staying in power than in serving and leaving. It is not longer public service, but personal gain. Our last great hope was the TEA party, but you see whta happened when they got to the swamp.

I'll be sure to bring that up at my next TEA Party meeting on Saturday.

[skeeter]

Yup.  The real trouble began when the takers started outnumbering the makers. 

And accelerated by consistently lowering taxes on low income types until 45% (who happen to also be the highest consumers of federal benefits) pay no federal tax at all.

Of course for those types the government can't be big enough.

[Cyber Liberty]

And accelerated by consistently lowering taxes on low income types until 45% (who happen to also be the highest consumers of federal benefits) pay no federal tax at all.

Of course for those types the government can't be big enough.

"Taxation without representation" deserves to get a bad rap, but "representation without taxation" ain't exactly great either.