The Briefing Room
General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: 240B on May 24, 2018, 10:35:59 am
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Fox News
By Howard Kurtz
3 hours ago
No wonder Paul Ryan decided to bail.
Here he is in his final stretch as House speaker, hoping to go out in a spirit of unity, and the press is filled with stories about whether his party will dump him prematurely.
Managing the Republican caucus increasingly looks like Mission Impossible. It was the constant in-fighting between warring factions that prompted John Boehner to quit in 2015, and Ryan was drafted despite the fact that he didn't really want the job. Two and a half years later, he announced that he'd had enough.
And the Wisconsin congressman is still getting grief.
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/05/24/media-say-paul-ryans-job-in-jeopardy-as-republican-warfare-rages.html
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Ryan deserves the grief he is allegedly getting. But then again, so does the party as a whole. If they should lose their majority in November, they only have themselves to blame.
Just can't work up sympathy for Ryan or any of the rest of them.
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Last night I heard he's not attending the briefing today due to a 'long standing committment.' I can't find a link to confirm it.
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Raging Republican warfare notwithstanding, I’m optimistic that because the Democrats have so overplayed their “Trump card,†and that the Mueller fiasco has so undermined trust in the democrat party and revealed the corruption in Obama’s intelligence agencies; and that the improving economy, job market and rise in American stature on the world stage, that it will usher in a red wave come November and beyond.
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No wonder Paul Ryan decided to bail.
Here he is in his final stretch as House speaker, hoping to go out in a spirit of unity, and the press is filled with stories about whether his party will dump him prematurely.
This is exactly backwards. Ryan should be dumped as leader precisely because he bailed.