Paul Ryan is a weasel. He is a coward. He is a hypocrite. He doesn’t give a sh-t about anybody other than his wealthiest donors. He actually makes me miss poor ol’ weeping John Boehner (who was also good for nothing). Paul Ryan assumed the role of Speaker of the House after Boehner got the f–k out of Dodge in the fall of 2015. Ryan’s tenure as Speaker has been unnotable. As in, the only thing Ryan has accomplished is “pandering to the worst elements of his own suicidal caucus so they don’t kick him out of the Speakership.” Ryan has no moral authority, no backbone, and there’s no there there. He’s like an overgrown frat boy hellbent on mansplaining how social programs actually go against the teachings of Jesus. Anyway, it seems like Paul Ryan doesn’t want to stick around the Speaker’s office much longer. From Politico:
Tinkering with the social safety net is a bold undertaking, particularly in an election year. But Ryan has good reason for throwing caution to the wind: His time in Congress is running short.
Despite several landmark legislative wins this year, and a better-than-expected relationship with President Donald Trump, Ryan has made it known to some of his closest confidants that this will be his final term as speaker. He consults a small crew of family, friends and staff for career advice, and is always cautious not to telegraph his political maneuvers. But the expectation of his impending departure has escaped the hushed confines of Ryan’s inner circle and permeated the upper-most echelons of the GOP. In recent interviews with three dozen people who know the speaker—fellow lawmakers, congressional and administration aides, conservative intellectuals and Republican lobbyists—not a single person believed Ryan will stay in Congress past 2018.
Ryan was tiring of D.C. even before reluctantly accepting the speakership. He told his predecessor, John Boehner, that it would be his last job in politics—and that it wasn’t a long-term proposition. In the months following Trump’s victory, he began contemplating the scenarios of his departure. More recently, over closely held conversations with his kitchen cabinet, Ryan’s preference has become clear: He would like to serve through Election Day 2018 and retire ahead of the next Congress. This would give Ryan a final legislative year to chase his second white whale, entitlement reform, while using his unrivaled fundraising prowess to help protect the House majority—all with the benefit of averting an ugly internecine power struggle during election season.
First of all, WTF is this? “Despite several landmark legislative wins this year…” Like what? I’m really asking. The multiple attempts to kneecap Obamacare made the ACA more popular than ever. The disgusting tax bill is falling apart in committee. Speaker Ryan can’t even lead his caucus to an agreement that, like, neo-Nazism is bad. And because every white bro is bound and determined to go out in a destructive blaze of glory, Ryan wants his coup de grace to be “dismantling entitlement programs.” Because why not? Ugh. Speaking of Medicare and Social Security, Ryan said this in a press conference on Thursday:
“This is going to be the new economic challenge for America: people. Baby boomers are retiring — I did my part, but we need to have higher birth rates in this country,” Ryan, a father of three, told reporters as he riffed on how Republicans will tackle entitlement and welfare reform in 2018. “Baby boomers are retiring and we have fewer people following them in the workforce. We have something like a 90-percent increase in the retirement population of America but only a 19-percent increase in the working population in American. So what do we have to do? Be smarter, more efficient, more technology … still gonna need more people.”
That’s the kind of speech men make right before they declare uteruses to be property of the government, outlaw abortion and birth control and just start to Handmaid’s Tale this entire country. The answer to “how do we get more people/taxpayers/citizens/workers into the country?” is also pretty simple: we need to let in more immigrants. We need to have a more robust immigration system. But I guess Paul Ryan has never thought of that. Also: what self-respecting, birth-control-hating Catholic – who has been married for 17 years – only has THREE kids to show for it?
Photos courtesy of Getty.
This man reeks of ambition. He wants to be president. O’Donnell said this last night and I think he nailed it. Ryan is a hard core Randite.
They all want yo be president. Except for Trump. All he wanted was to beat Hillary and win and then watch TV 8 hours a day, play golf and drink diet Pepsi.
And eat Cheetos!
That is pretty much all that Trump is doing.
And as prez, he gets all the ice cream he wants and can misuse the office to make more $ to give, tax free, to his entitled kids..
T. Fanty is right.
Also add scam money off the government and taxpayers too.
To be fair, he also enjoys McDonald’s A LOT.
And don’t forget the beautiful chocolate cake!!!
He might reek of ambition but I think he’s scared that Randy Bryce will beat him.
Agree! He’s scared of the iron stache, and he should be. I love that ad where he tells Ryan “welcome to Wisconsin”. Great shade.
I think so too – no coincidence this story came out after Jones beat Moore in ALABAMA. Iron Stache seems pretty awesome and very relatable, and Ryan’s numbers are dropping. I think this is a very Dump-esque “You can’t fire me I quit” mentality.
I think he’s going to try to get some distance between himself and this incredibly (thank God) ineffective Congress, and then try for a comeback POTUS run. If he does, I look forward to him losing, bigly.
Ryan is really way out of sync with the American Catholic Church on such issues. He didn’t learn to be selfish at church. Sharing is a big deal for typical Catholics and the official Church here has been strong on social justice issues and has pushed against exactly what Ryan is trying to do.
Rich people go their own way, I guess, and in my experience rich Catholics who are selfish do tend to become Republicans even if born of a Democrat. Mike Pence is another example of an Irish Catholic gone wrong — he not only converted to a more selfish religion associating worldly success with being especially beloved by God (they must have tossed the Book of Job) but also became a Republican.
Democrats aren’t angelic, but as a Party they do tend to understand better that we’re all in this together and bad things can happen to anybody so we need to share and provide support for people in need. Republicans as a group have tended more to every man for himself and the poor deserve their poverty type of thinking. There are always individual exceptions on both sides, but these are clear trends as recent legislative efforts have shown. The military budget is more obscene than ever before but somehow they can’t manage to help children with health care needs by just renewing CHIP.
Trump and Ryan really epitomize the selfish approach. Trump was born rich but I really can’t figure out Ryan’s motivation. He didn’t pull himself up by his own bootstraps. He benefited from the same programs that he is now trying diligently to destroy.
It’s really interesting to read your take — and a bit refreshing. Every single Catholic I know is a staunch Republican, because of the pro-life thing — so, it’s nice to read that there are pockets of the church that see the value of the Dem platform.
I agree Jwoolman. I’m not even religious, but I do immensely appreciate democratic Catholics and Pope Francis for showing that it is possible to apply the moral teachings of Jesus to this world in a very practical way and not just for political gain and tribalism.
Odette – just look at the prominent Catholic Democrats who manage fine with legal abortion. As educated Catholics, they know that the Church has always said that everything that is immoral does not have to be illegal (and vice versa). It actually is easier to reduce abortion rates when it is legal, actually, because there is free discussion about it. The moral decision is just placed in the woman, as it really needs to be. I know many people of various religious beliefs who feel government just can’t make that decision properly, it has to be left to the woman. It just isn’t right to force anybody to remain pregnant against their will. That absolute can’t override the multitude of different beliefs about any independent right to life of the zygote, embryo, and fetus.
Let them spend their money on reproductive education, legislation to ensure the rights of medical personnel to follow their conscience, programs to give the kind of support to pregnant women before and after birth that would make it feasible for them to choose not to abort more often, and methods of contraception that don’t violate their conscience. Making abortion illegal just doesn’t stop it because of all the serious factors that go into the decision in the first place. It is a waste of money and time to pursue delegalization of abortion if you are truly opposed to abortion and not just anxious to control other people’s sexual behavior.
The Catholic Church’s thinking on such matters is far more nuanced than the fundamentalist Protestants. Catholics who vote for Republicans because they think that will stop abortion need to re-examine Republican legislation (very counterproductive to reducing abortion) and get back to their religious roots. If the law said women must abort, the situation would be very different. But the law only says that women and medical professionals can decide to abort without legal penalties.
Screaming about the dead babies forgets how many babies are never born because it’s a rough road to birth even with no human interference (I wish people screamed more about the babies dead due to our wars, as well as unwanted miscarriages caused by our military actions). Most zygotes never make it. Religious and ethical beliefs about when personhood is acquired by the result of conception runs the whole range from zygote to birth, and that includes previous Catholic thinking on such matters. In a society with strict separation of church and state, no religion can dictate such things for others. One look at what happened in Romania under Ceausescu will convince anybody of the horror show when a government decides to force women to give birth, for both the women and the resulting children.
In another context, I’m not going to waste my time making war illegal because it really already is at so many levels (look at our treaties and laws against murder and mayhem and then look at our stockpiles of WMDs and our constant wars and bombs dropped for decades) and that has never stopped it. I have to work to change the conditions that make people think killing other people on a mass scale is ok and offer alternatives to dealing with our conflicts and fears.
Thanks for the thoughts, Jwoolman. Next time I get in debate with a Catholic acquaintance, I’ll be sure to bring up your points!
I’m not catholic but we did send the kids to catholic school because they are going to school where we work (not live) so they have to go to an out of district school. I just want to say he is not following the Catholic mores. They are big on charity. I cannot tell you how many charitable works the kids have to do.
Also I agree what kind of true catholic only has 3 kids? Munster is a cafeteria catholic.
Ryan should leave now – today !
Also, Paul Ryan make it more affordable for people to live, take maternity and paternity leave and they might have more children…
Instead of causing financial crises every few years which *coincidentally* enrich your donors.
We don’t have kids because I can’t afford to get an apartment (nor do I want to). We can’t afford houses, cars, get a decent job with a masters degree (the new bachelors) and on top of that you hate social programs and healthcare.
Oh and on top of that for ME (and countless others) I don’t want to raise a black child in America.
So no thank you. F*ck you Ryan
And think about what he is saying! Fertility policies in place of immigration! How Handmaid’s Tale can you get?
(If you ever get a spare afternoon, Nicole, take a ferret around fertility policy literature via Google Scholar. It is truly terrifying stuff.)
Oh geez Sixer I’m scared already as to what I will find.
Believe me, there is a lot of funded research.
Exactly, Nicole, well said. I really fear for my kids’, who are nearing their late teens, futures. Even they wonder how they will ever make enough money to live — and they enjoy the privilege of being white — and it’s hard to be encouraging to them.
Ryan is a weak ideologue, a faux ideologue if you ask me, who rode the Tea Party wave to office. I could not be more glad that people realize how lacking he is in substance and competence. I think he sees that Randy Bryce can beat him and is getting out before he gets crushed.
Not to mention them happily destroying the environment AND the healthcare system, so when the air and water make you sick, you’re doubly screwed. Yes, tell us again, Paul Ryan, why we aren’t all clamoring to have a dozen kids each solely to increase the tax base?
Yeah. Even if I did want kids (which I don’t), this is NOT the world I want to bring them into. We’re doing okay, my husband and I, but we CANNOT afford even one child without substantial sacrifice. And that’s just the beginning.
If you really want people to have more children, maybe work on incentives for them to do so. Affordable health care, robust family support and service programs, clean air and water, affordable and safe housing and neighborhoods, good education, reasonable employment prospects and so forth.
Exactly. He is so out of touch it makes my blood boil. And yet the very people he seeks to destroy, such as my rabidly pro-life co-worker who struggles to provide for her five kids, is deluded enough by him to say “he seems like such a nice man.”
Yeah, I don’t blame you Nicole. It seems that the republican plan for America is to push, (even enforce ?), white procreation while cutting down black and brown populations through deportations, mass imprisonment and sanctioned police shootings. Oh, and let’s not forget poverty and needless infant mortality from lack of quality healthcare.
Also: what self-respecting, birth-control-hating Catholic – who has been married for 17 years – only has THREE kids to show for it?
Hahahaha! I <3 Kaiser!
Also given the GOP values of women are property, if 50% of the population stays at home to raise said new babies would they even get an increase in workforce with all the women gone and 50% of children being born to become child care givers?
His wife probably got sick of having sex with him.
+1. Good one Kaiser!
Monette– Catholic birth rates in the US have been mysteriously zooming downward for decades. When I was a kid, it wasn’t uncommon to see large families and exceptions were generally tied to fertility problems and a tendency toward miscarriage. One of my chemistry teachers in college, who was Catholic and said he and his wife did not use any birth control, had five kids under the age of five. Now such large families are relatively rare except possibly in more recent immigrant families.
There can be other reasons for small family size. For example, my Catholic mother kept miscarrying after two successful births so she never got the bigger family she wanted. (Thank goodness. She could hardly handle two of us!). But I was in a Catholic college when an encyclical came out objecting to contraceptives, and I can’t recall a single student who thought the old men in the Vatican had a clue on this issue. We had to take a class on family issues as part of the religion requirement, and the poor priest teaching it (who wanted to focus on church law concerning such issues) was overwhelmed by the women always bringing back the conversation to why the Pope was wrong …. Catholics actually have always followed their own consciences in moral matters, just like everybody else. Clearly those Catholic women were and would continue to use whatever form of contraception they could because they believed that was the moral and responsible thing to do.
The Church-approved rhythm method, especially in modern modifications, can work pretty well if you have regular enough cycles and a cooperative mate, and it has health advantages, but there are too many women who can’t count on either a cooperative cycle or a cooperative mate. The method can reduce the chance of conception fairly close to other methods, so it can slow down family growth considerably. But unless the Ryan family has been diligently practicing the rhythm method, the odds are high that Ryan’s wife is using other forms of contraception even if he doesn’t know about it.
I don’t think Ryan even sees the irony in wanting a higher birth rate but keeping immigrants out.
Oh please he knows he’d lose the house and he doesn’t like that look.
THIS. The writing is pretty much on the wall that Repubs will lose the House and then he won’t be Speaker anymore anyway. So he’s taking his toys and going home. But first to plant a story that you never really wanted the job and you always wanted to leave to spend more time with your kids so you don’t look like such a LOSER.
I loathe him but to be fair he always made it clear he didn’t want to be Speaker. I mean why take on more work when he was coasting along just fine on his faux wonk (ha!) reputation. But I agree that he knows his days are numbered and is trying to get ahead of his inevitable downfall.
You bought that one? He was also reluctant to be on the Romney ticket and in 2020 he’ll reluctantly run for president. It’s BS.
I did, only because he strikes me as insecure enough to know he can’t really get the job done. Why take on more work when he can enjoy the a decent amount of power even without the added work and stress? Then again, what do I know?
Good bye Eddie Munster
“And don’t let the big creaky door hit ya…”
I hope Eddie realizes he’s doomed. The article talks about a lot of unrest within the party (knives are being sharpened for him by his own ilk).
I am hopeful for 2018 elections, but not sure enough people realize the impact of this tax hike for lower/middle income folks. We won’t have to complete our tax forms under the revisions until AFTER the election. I can already determine the higher standard deduction will not offset what’s being taken away.
This is why it will be very important to work out detailed examples of what the tax form will look like and use them to educate people before the 2018 election. Make online calculators (like they used prior to ACA implementation) so people can plug in their own real numbers and see if they will be lucky or unlucky. Don’t wait until implementation, people need to know how it will work before they vote.
Elizabeth Warren seems to understand the math of consumer issues pretty well, let her get something like that going. But don’t wait for the Democrats – any with tax expertise can work with people who did the ACA calculators (Kaiser had a good one) or maybe convince outfits like TurboTax (which has free online tax calculators) to help. People have to know what they are voting for, that’s basic and nonpartisan.
He got what he wanted, now it’s time to cash out. I’m sure there’s a lobbying position waiting for him.
I hope the rest of his life is miserable. Mammy Yokum mouthed motherfucker.
Yes to all this.
This guy is evil.
Ryan will “retire” so when trump goes down he can step up. He wants to be Pres. He’s too unpopular though.
Do we really need more people, though? Isn’t governing over 350 million people difficult enough? Is industry and infrastructure in danger because of the retirement issue? Serious question.
To assist in achieving this goal of more babies, Paul and his best buddy Diane Black will soon make it impossible for any woman to obtain any form of birth control or end a pregnancy and they will personally travel about the country inspecting vaginas. Diane can’t wait. Diane is so excited and enthusiastic that Paul has had to remind her several times that he goes first and when they sit on a couch together, she must only sit in the extreme corner so he can manspread himself over the rest of the couch (there are pictures of this).
You can take the frat boy out of the keg party…
Motherf*cker, NO ONE wants you to be House Speaker NOW, let alone after the 2018 mid-terms.
But I guess now that you and McConnell and your Cheeto Overlord have managed to f*ck absolutely everyone over that you could think of and it isn’t looking as rosy for you assh*les at the mid-terms, you figure this is a good time to bow out so no one is looking your way if Mueller is able to continue his work.
What an absolutely evil, gutless coward.
There’s massive chatter about a whopper coming today courtesy of SantaMueller. It’s either JARED or JUNIOR. Stay tuned.
Ryan won’t have to worry about being SotH come 2018 because 1) the Dems will flip the house and 2) Ryan was caught on tape taking Russian money for his campaign.
Hitler and Goebbels also noted low birth rates in Germany circa 1933, just FYI. An all out putsch to German women began.
Don’t you love Fridays, Eric? I look forward to something hitting the fan today. Either or both of the idiot twins are going down. It’s only a matter of time IMO. Also, I know from family, fertile German women were held in the highest esteem during the period of 1933-1945 and those with 6 or more children were given motherhood medals and later extra rations for birthing potential future Nazis. Sick on so many levels, I know.
Chrissy
Love me them Fridays!
Hahaha! I’ve been waiting to see a post by you.
Good ole Eric <3
Weekend off to a great start.
Also Ryan was caught on tape doing what now?!
Edit: just went and read about it. Why is no one still talking about this?!!!
https://www.google.com/amp/s/patribotics.blog/2017/06/09/paul-ryan-taped-with-russian-ambassador-on-gop-money-laundering/amp/
I am a self-respecting, pharmaceutical birth control hating Roman Catholic who has been married for 21 years, and I only have 3 children. No fertility issues, plenty of sex of all kinds with my husband. We use the sympto-thermal Billings method of birth control and we wanted three children.
I briefly bought into the notion that of course, as a modern woman, I needed hormonal birth control and got the Depo Provera shot and spent a year being miserable and gaining weight. Now I wake up, take my temperature, check my cervical mucous, record both in the app on my phone and get on with my day.
Of course your implication is that Paul Ryan and Mrs. Ryan are either lying or have a frigid relationship, and either of those could be true. Or they could have fertility problems, or perhaps they wanted more children and she couldn’t carry all but three to term.
Thanks for sharing. Your body, your choice but other women do not want the government deciding for them.
i’m so glad you got to choose how to plan your family your way. that is nice. people who want to plan their family their way with pharmaceutical birth control or terminate an unwanted or dangerous pregnancy or get decent medical care for the pregnancy they desperately want wish their options came as easily as yours! they wish that legislators like paul ryan didn’t do everything in their power to impose restrictive, judgmental and discriminatory regulations on the choices they make for their bodies and families.
+1,000,000 to everything Pedro45 and Lizzie said!
+1,000,001
I don’t use hormonal birth control because I didnt react well to it, I now use the justisse method (tracking cervical mucous) and Im happily married and baby free 🙂
However, no matter that I personally chose to use non-pharmaceutical methods, I will fight like hell for women to have the right to decide how they wish to control their fertility!
our bodies, our choice.
Such methods really can be quite effective, the differences in success rates really weren’t that far different from other types of birth control even back before modern advances. And no side effects. In many places, the major problem is the men. Some of them don’t like delayed gratification or the word “no”, and in some cultures that can be hazardous for the women. A completely cooperative mate is essential.
I’ve always thought that research needs to be accelerated on ways to quickly know exactly where the woman is in her cycle and if a viable egg is still present. There are complications with the chemical approaches. They really should just be considered as a stopgap until we really know what we’re doing in such matters.
Honestly I agree with you. Chemical contraception is AWESOME but I would love nothing more than to see the human female reproductive system studied much more in depth than it has been. We know quite a lot about cows, for example, but human women are still treated like textbook averages. There’s a fairly dogmatic viewpoint of hormonal cycles with little acknowledgment that these can be highly variable and individual, with a sort of “black box” approach where it’s assumed that all women are the same.
Wren- Exactly. I’m a chemist and have translated some materials and individual records for clinical trials on contraceptives. It’s very clear why the failure rate isn’t 0%. Individual internal environments vary person to person and also for different conditions for the same individual, and the chemicals used to control the cycle just don’t always work. We need to know much more and have much better methods of tracking individual cases at home in real-time. Clinical testing isn’t enough. This is true in other things as well, such as testing HIV viral loads. Real-time detection by the individual has to be the goal.
This isn’t an impossible dream. There are attachments now to smartphones that can make medical measurements, including some limited on-the-fly analysis of bodily fluids. We just have to get serious about the research funding. We have the resources, we’re just wasting it on endless war and preparation for more war. The military budget is impossible and is way over what is needed for true defense (and trying to solve problems by shooting and bombing people makes us less safe), but Congress keeps tossing more good money after bad. They are all so afraid of being called wimps (or losing a lot of income under the table from military industry lobbyists).
There are other health reasons for women to take hormonal birth control besides family planning. Without mine, I’d be doubled over in excruciating pain that regular over the counter pain killers can’t cure. (I could get pain pills but at 29 i would have a future of potential addiction and liver damage) Without birth control I would have to call off work because it’s hard to be professional when you are doubled over or audibly gasping…which could lead to the potential of me getting fired/not being able to help my husband make our rent (because despite working 3 jobs between us, we only live comfortably if there isn’t an emergency) Without birth control, I pass painful blood clots and bleed through my protection 1x an hour. Without birth control I may actually become INfertile, as my own body decides to attack itself by stringing webs of blood over my internal organs and raising my risks of getting multiple types of cancer or needing a hysterectomy. I will manage the side effects because for me the other options are worse. And I’m not alone.
TL;DR Every style has their place.That’s great that you can use other sources for your family planning needs but birth control isn’t just a family planning issue. Its a female health issue, which lack of access to, has serious consequences for women’s lives.
You know what helps increase the population? Immigrants. Immigrants who work and have kids and pay taxes.
Politically active Kimmel is looking good.
http://twitter.com/jimmykimmel/status/941416954782289921
Good fucking riddance. Although knowing this asshole it this feels more like a temporary break before he re-emerges in 2024 or whatever as a presidential candidate (he’s only 47). Is he trying to cleanse himself of Trump toxicity? That won’t change the fact that he stood being this woman-groping, nazi sympathizing president. We won’t forget.
amen. don’t let the door hit him on the way out.
Oh no, I hope it hits him hard on the way out. Lol.
Why wait until AFTER the 2018 mid-terms? Why run for re-election only to retire and then put federal taxpayers through the cost of a special election?
But don’t worry, Paul, you may not get to make the choice at all. People are putting support behind Iron Stache.
Or he knows he is screwed and won’t even win his election next year.
Blue wave is coming and will get rid of GOP for a long long time.
Translation: Ryan wants to leave before more crap hits the fan regarding the Russian investigation. He then has time to come back and run for president as the “ fresh and younger” face of the Republician party.
Or, negotiations are going badly regarding keeping some scandal from coming to light and he wants to leave on his terms rather than being forced out.
One twitterer last night suggested that this sounds like Mueller informed Mr. Ryan what they have on his lying treasonous fanny.
Bye Paulie. Go quicker.
Bye bye, Ayn Rand Lunatic!
“Also: what self-respecting, birth-control-hating Catholic – who has been married for 17 years – only has THREE kids to show for it?”-SO TRUE. I was born and raised Catholic all my life, thankfully my mom was never militant about religion but there were always some families who you knew didn’t believe in birth control. How could you tell? They had on average 8 children! I knew one family that had 12! Paul Ryan’s wife really does not f*&ck with him lmao.
In my town there’s a family with 18, one with 15 and the “small” family among that Catholic set with only 11, lol. I actually volunteered with the mom who has 11 (they had 12 but one passed away) and I expressed a bit of awe at her ability to see track of so many kids and she got really cold and defensive. I guess it wasn’t appropriate to remark on it?
I’m from a very Catholic family, but now I’m non-observant, having left it in college. My baby boomer father was the youngest of 7, with the age gap of the older 4 being maybe 7 years between them. There’s an age gap of about 8 years between the younger 3, so maybe my late grandmother had more complications with them as she got older. She was 40 and my late grandfather was almost 50 when my dad was born, and today that would be a very high risk pregnancy with increased chances of both down’s syndrome and autism because of both parent’s ages.
I think the large Catholic families (5+ kids) are still a minority among American Catholics today. Most who pay lip service to its stance on artificial birth control still have at most 4 kids, because it’s expensive raising kids. The one cousin that does have 4 kids, all boys, must have done some family planning because there’s only going to be one year that him and his wife will be paying for college tuition for two kids simultaneously.
My parents had my sister and myself and two was enough for my mother. I know they used some birth control because my mother had some condoms readily available to teach me basic sex ed once I hit puberty.
My grandmother had 7 children, and had her last 3 weeks before my mom had my older brother. Mom was pregnant with me 6-7 weeks later, so I have a part-time twin brother for about 6 weeks each year and an uncle one year older. He makes me call him uncle. My aunt is younger than me. I struggled with that concept as a youngster.
GOP keep trying to bring back preexisting which would eliminate coverage for pregnancy because reproduction and being female should be punished.
I can’t afford to have children. I have had the same partner 10 years but I have a high deductible medical insurance. It would be $6,000 in deductible before insurance covered anything at all. Then there is a $7,000 out of pocket.
According to #paulryansoscared My options are either: Be irresponsible “entitled” woman with a baby in massive debt OR I’m irresponsible with no debt who has conciously not had children.
All of his moronic proposals dig a deeper hole with no solution.
I think I loathe Paul Ryan most of all the disgusting kleptocrats in the Republican Party. Make no mistake, Trump is an ignorant sexual assaulter who is bringing shame upon the country daily, but we knew who he was during the campaign. McConnell is a cynical, process-averting b*stard who stole a Supreme Court seat and will stop at nothing to push his donors’ agenda, but again, that’s who he always has been. I have a particular disdain for hypocrites, and Paul Ryan, with his veneer of faux respectability, who hides behind his false reputation as a wonk (HAHAHAHAHAHA NO), who benefited from Social Security as a college student but shames the working poor, who would have women be no more than incubators (white babies only, please!) makes me particularly stabby. I hope there is a permanent stamp over his picture in history marked “disgusting kleptocratic fraud.”
So the guy who has wanted to dismantle “entitlements” since his college frat partying days, now wants to spend time with his children? Just weeks or months ago, he was obviously giddy at the chance to strip programs in the near future.
Methinks he sees a big cane emerging from the side of the stage…His song and dance time must be over, whether he likes it or not.
If he doesn’t leave, I hope the guy running against him in 2018 wins. (Randy Bryce) He is definitely looking good to me, as a Wisconsin voter who is fed up with the obsession over only catering to the freaking donors and wealthy and giving us peasants the finger.
Need more people? Well, Ryan, get crackin’
We are not feeding, housing, and job training the people we already have and he’s saying we need MORE people?
I have a few ideas on how to fix the “workforce gap”:
STOP HARASSING WOMEN OUT OF WORK
TAKE CARE OF OUR VETERANS. GET THEM OFF THE STREET AND INTO PROPER MENTAL HEALTH CARE.
LOWER THE PRISON SENTENCES OF NON-VIOLENT CRIMINALS AND REQUIRE VOCATIONAL TRAINING WHILE THEY ARE INSIDE.
HOW ARE KIDS IN THE FOSTER SYSTEM BEING EDUCATED?!
WHY IS HIGHER EDUCATION SO EXPENSIVE??!!
AAAAGHGGHHHHHGYJ C HUH!!!!!!!
That’s all…Sorry for going a little crazy.
GoesTo11 for president!
But why is he talking to his kitchen cabinet? Is that some cute metaphor for his family that I’ve never heard before?
It’s a political metaphor and play on words. There is the actual Cabinet – Secretary of State, Defense, etc. etc. that all Presidents appoint. A past President – I forget which one – famously convened another group of unpaid advisors and friends because he didn’t trust his official appointees. They weren’t employees, so they would meet informally in the private areas of the White House – hence the play-on-words kitchen cabinet. These days you’ll see it mentioned with a lot of politicians that have a group of people they go to for advice.
Reluctantly…dude ran over everyone and everything to take over for Boehner. And then had the nerve to want to set his own hours when he was finally given it. He is not liked but many if none at all in his own party.
He would faded into obscurity if it wasn’t for Romney.
Somewhere, Boehner is pouring himself another double, putting on his tanning goggles, and laughing his a** off.
Hahahaha!
I know hardly anything about Boehner’s politics, but that video skit he did with Obama shown at Obama’s last White House Correspondents dinner was hilarious. Go find it on YouTube…
Of course he’s talking retirement. After he accomplishes his goals of robbing us of health care , social security and money to live on he won’t have anything left on his “to do” list. Once the majority of us are living in abject poverty he’ll be happy.
He knows that he will be voted out – if that is possible – in 2018, so declaring this now lets him stew a bit before placing his Presidential bid.
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yeah, as I recall, he didn’t want to be speaker because he didn’t want to get dirty in the trenches. Wanted to preserve as much of a squeaky clean ‘image’ as possible for a presidency run.
I knew this would happen when Paul Ryan became Speaker of the House. John Boehner retired from politics in a similar fashion as well, because not only was he reviled by Democrat voters, his own Republican party had turned against him since they thought he wasn’t strong enough (aka, right wing enough) on certain issues.
They predicted as much when Paul Ryan took the position. There was a lot of chatter about how this could potentially become career suicide for him. Because unless he was some kind of savant at politics and a genius, he wasn’t going to be able to deliver the kinds of legislative wins the Republicans expected of him. My guess is that he’s feeling the internal pressure from within the party quite deeply at this point. Trump probably dislikes him on principle, as do the more right wing Republicans because he hasn’t stolen every last penny from the American people like he promised. The more neutral Republicans probably dislike him because he’s too much of a thief, even for them. And the rest probably hate him because he’s Paul Ryan, slimy weasel #1.
I’d feel bad for him if he weren’t Paul Ryan. I wonder who they’ll nominate for Speaker of the House next. If the job is going to be career suicide, can we please put up someone who we’d prefer to see out of politics forever?
Good. I’m sick of looking at his sick rat face and hearing his bullsh*t.
He’s afraid of losing, but there is also some speculation that he is dirty on Russia as well.
Maybe he’s feeling the heat.
👋🏽 See ya Paul! Don’t let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya!
He’s forever tainted with the stench of this administration and his tow the line stance. Retirement won’t stop investigations..
he really is a zombie-eyed granny starver
The thing that is horrific about the selfish pro life Republicans is how many suicides there are. They don’t publish the statistics anymore, but the published and unpublished accounts increase daily. Why? The failure of governments to protect their citizens from corporate greed and global opportunism.
Anti depressants aren’t going to fix this. And this doesn’t even include deaths due to opiod and heroin addiction. So let’s birth unwanted children into this system so staunchly defended by the conservatives so they can just end up addicts and suicides too.