“Those of us around him really helped to stop him from making bad decisions. All the time. We helped him make much better decisions, which were contrary to kind of what his knee-jerk reaction was. Now I think he’s making some of these knee-jerk reactions.” Thus former House Speaker Paul Ryan on Donald Trump, in…
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John McCain, Paul Ryan, and the Myth of the Virtuous Republican
John McCain is one of those guys who, when he dies, people say “he was the last of a dying breed.” No one will ever say that about Paul Ryan. John McCain was a genuine war hero, a man who preferred to face hardship, torture, and even death rather than abandon his comrades. Paul Ryan…
Paul Ryan not a total douchebag, study shows
Well, as much as I hate to admit it, the rumor appears to be true: there is a limit to Lyin’ Paulie’s douchebagginess. According to this report from Politico by Rachel Bade and Kyle Cheney, that limit is being reached by Paulie in response to efforts by unlimited congressional mouth-frothers Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) and Jim…
Daniel Drezner is shocked, shocked to discover that Paul Ryan is Paul Ryan
More in sorrow than in anger, it would seem, the WashPost’s Dan Drezner struggles with House Speaker Paul Ryan’s puzzling tendency to say, well, to say one thing (usually decent by what one might call “Mainstream Acela” standards) and then do another (almost invariably pusillanimous1). Reviewing Paulie’s record, Dan can wonder why, since “Ryan is…
The Apotheosis of Paul Ryan is the Apotheosis of Hypocrisy
It is likely that Republicans in Congress will pass something resembling House Speaker Paul Ryan’s tax package—because if they don’t they’ll look like complete fools, and they’d rather fuck up the country than look like that. It’s “amusing” that everyone, even me, has pointed to the massive Republican hypocrisy of having spent eight long years…
Paul Ryan is a coward, Mickey Edwards explains
Former congressman Mickey Edwards, writing the New York Times, parses the shrunken role of Congress in the reign of Trump, noting how House Speaker Paul Ryan lets President Trump call the shots on Capitol Hill, as though the Congress were a subsidiary of the presidency rather than a separate branch of government—the legislative branch, as…
Is Paul Ryan Growing a Pair, or Growing a Pear?
OK, “growing a pear” does not mean anything, though, ipso facto, it does not mean “growing a pair,” and, since I am definitely not a fan of Paulie, I don’t want to start complimenting him all of a sudden. It was, after all, only a few weeks ago that Paulie was giving a glowing review…
Shorter Paul Ryan: “I like being Donald Trump’s bitch! I like it a lot!”
Yeah, House Speaker Paul Ryan, aka “Lyin’ Paulie Ryan”, seems to have found his true calling: ankle-grabbing for the Donald. While the reactions of most Republicans to Trump’s performance in Monday’s debate ran along the lines of “Hey, he didn’t call Obama a nigger, did he?”, Paulie’s been in full gush, reports Politico’s Rachel Bade:…
Alan Vanneman won’t shut up about Paul Ryan
Well, I won’t. I won’t, because I now have a theory to justify my bombast. For months—nay, years—I have been berating the mainstream media for its continuing Paulie worship (catch up on all the bombast right here). Well, now that the scales have been falling from some eyes, thanks to Paulie’s continuing embrace of Donald…
Paul Ryan a total whore, liberal media is shocked to discover
It is shocking, isn’t it? Young, slender, matinee idol handsome—and smart!—Paul Ryan is in fact a total whore, as the New York Times editorial page—liberal media personified—is shocked to discover, though the Times prefers “weak opportunist”. Even the battle-hardened Weekly Standard was startled by Paulie’s “surprisingly enthusiastic” suck-up to the Donald. It’s the Times, of…