Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI):
Speaker of the House
GOPers in the House are
Weasels ... any
label fits:
And, yes, again, this Speaker Paul Ryan, twisted like a pretzel about his support of Donald J. Trump
despite Trump’s one-man flim-flim show.
Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) issued a stern
warning about the rhetoric coming from Donald Trump about the way government
should work, saying: “We will lose our freedoms in this country,
including all of the Bill of Rights, if we don’t robustly defend the separation
of powers.”
Ryan
was asked by reporters numerous times about Trump’s recent conduct regarding
him questioning whether President Obama actually wanted to stop terrorist
attacks. He then accused many American Muslims of sheltering terrorists and
said he could act unilaterally as president to prevent any type or class of people from
entering the country despite the fact that Article I, Section 8, clause 4 of
the Constitution entrusts Congress with the power to “establish a uniform Rule
of Naturalization.”
In Atlanta, Trump issued a rebuke to
Republican leaders like Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Speaker
Ryan, and many others who have criticized Trump over the past days and weeks
for his merry-go-round of offensive, controversial, and erroneous statements saying
in part: “Our leaders have to get a lot tougher, and be quiet. Just please be
quiet. Don’t talk. Please, be quiet. Just be quiet, to the leaders, because
they have to get tougher, they have to get sharper, they have to get smarter,
and we have to have our Republicans either stick together or let me just do it
by myself.”
Ryan was asked first if he would ever
rescind his endorsement of Trump and he noticeably did not rule out the
possibility, saying in part: “That’s not my plan. I don’t have a plan to
do that.”
He was then asked: “How many
more times would he have to repudiate something said by Trump such as his proposal
to temporarily bar all Muslims from entering the U.S.” Ryan said: “I don’t
know.”
Then a reporter asked: “Does that
bother you that you have to keep doing this?” Ryan chuckled saying: “He’s a
different kind of candidate, and this is a different kind of year, and the last
thing we want is a Democrat in the White House, like Hillary Clinton.”
Another reporter asked: “How do you
have any confidence that this is the guy that is going to have respect for
separation of power?”
Ryan laughed again and said: “You know you can’t make this up sometimes. I’ll just
say we represent a separate, but equal, branch of government.”
Ryan continued: “We just spent
a whole morning talking about how valuable the separation of powers is and how
we’re trying to restore the entire principal of self-government of
government-by-consent. We will lose our
freedoms in this country, including all of the Bill of Rights, if we don’t
robustly defend the separation of powers, and we’re going to fight for those
rights on behalf of our citizens so that we remain a self-governing people.”
My
assessment of Ryan is that he is one big wuss. Plus, remember, he is 2nd
in line to be President – ouch…!!!
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