Perhaps I shouldn’t be making this a case of collective responsibility, but all of these people have their names on an article over at Bloomberg, “Trump Rethinks State-Local Tax Issue Over Middle-Class Concerns”. Guys (and gals): you have to think something before you rethink it. Okay, maybe they didn’t write that headline, but they did…
Tag: Lyin’ Paulie Ryan
Mitch McConnell’s pathetic ego versus Donald Trump’s pathetic ego
In the annals of ignominious pusillanimity1, few events gleam with a more sickly hue than the recent spat between Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and President Donald Trump over who was “more” responsible for the “not repeal and not replace” ObamaCare debacle a few months back. It’s only “fitting”, I suppose, that Donnie was “right”:…
Republicans’ “Donald is just a little boy” meme totally blows
Okay, for a guy who’s constantly yapping about how much he luvs Mozart, that is a less than classy headline, but sometimes accuracy must trump class. After all, Trump always trumps class. It was House Speaker Paul Ryan, aka Lyin’ Paulie Ryan who first pushed this meme, claiming that Trump couldn’t break the law or…
Ross Douthat (yes, that Ross Douthat) explains it all for you
I have been perhaps overly hard on Ross Douthat over the years, though I can say with some pride that I haven’t called him “Ross Dumbfuck” since 2012. But, well, that was then and this is now. Ross more or less hits it out of the park with his latest column, “House Republicans Go Off…
Yo, Senate! Move your ass!
That’s the word from conservative health care policy maven/guru/wise man Avik Roy, writing in Forbes, urging Senate Republicans to stop waiting for House Speaker Paulie Ryan to get his ObamaCare replacement bill through the House before taking action. Avik has already repeatedly trashed Ryan’s bill, but he’s too polite, or too cautious, to repeat himself,…
Republicans wising up, one at a time
Today’s Politico has a piece by Rachel Bade and John Breshnahan, Ryan on the hot seat to deliver for Trump that features a “hot” quote from one “congressional source” regarding House Speaker Paul Ryan: “Everyone has always said he’s this policy genius, who is the future of the party when it’s, ‘Actually, you gave us…
Trumplosion or Trompe-l’œil?
The past several months have been a Trump-loather’s1 dream. Watching the big guy’s world go sideways in so many ways—well, it’s so satisfying that one can’t help but wonder, “When did I ever get everything I wanted all the time?” It’s as though “science” had perfected a peppermint ice cream that causes you to lose…
Poor, Pitiful Paulie Ryan, from policy wonk to policy wank in six weeks
If you’ve been hatin’ on House Speaker Paulie Ryan as long as I have, seeing Paulie finally take the beatdown he so richly deserves is schadenfreude beyond a Paulie hater’s wildest dreams. Perhaps the best of the many, many drubbings Paulie has received is administered by the hitherto unknown (to me) Philip Klein, who hangs…
Maybe it’s because they’re REPUBLICANS, Avik?
Avik Roy, a conservative health care expert who’s finding it harder and harder to be “conservative”, struggles with Lyin’ Paulie Ryan’s latest wrinkle to the Health Care bill that he and Donald Trump are trying to “ram” through the House of Representatives. The original bill had sort of a problem, noted by ethical gal around…
That’s because they’re REPUBLICANS, Mona
Mona Charen, senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and a contributor to the National Review, has a problem, almost an ethical problem, one might say. Writing in the Review regarding Lyin’ Paulie Ryan’s House Speaker Paul Ryan’s plans to repeal and replace Obamacare, Mona says “… compared to the current law [i.e.,…