It is, but so far (there's a thread on it) the Republicans top pick is a white supremacist. We can go for the Roy Moore opposition game plan.
Dems need to work hard just to keep the GOP from a super majority. Senate map is UUUUUUGLY for dems.
It's really alarming to me how many Republicans are getting out of the whole deal (at least temporarily) and not pursuing reelection. I can certainly understand divorcing themselves from Trump, but jumping ship from Congress altogether is a whole other action. If the GOP wants to maintain all the seats they can, I would imagine they'd be better off with incumbents. It's pretty scary to write off their chances so soon, especially with Trump edging closer to military conflict. As disastrous as it would be, I can't put out of my mind the possibility that the GOP as led by trump could make significant gains from here on the backs of armed conflict.
My conspiracy theory mind makes me wonder if the special counsel investigation is heading into territory some major GOP players don't want.
“When some think tank comes up with the legislation and tells you not to fool with it, why are you even a legislator anymore? You just sit there and take votes and you’re kind of a feudal serf for folks with a lot of money.” — Dale Schultz, 32-year Republican state legislator in Wisconsin and former state Senate Majority Leader, in 2013 before retiring rather than face a primary challenger backed by Americans for Prosperity. Several months later Schultz said: “I firmly believe that we are beginning in this country to look like a Russian-style oligarchy where a couple of dozen billionaires have basically bought the government.”
The same thing happened with the Dems in the 1994 elections. Being the minority party in the House isn't much fun so a lot of old farts quit.It's really alarming to me how many Republicans are getting out of the whole deal (at least temporarily) and not pursuing reelection. I can certainly understand divorcing themselves from Trump, but jumping ship from Congress altogether is a whole other action. If the GOP wants to maintain all the seats they can, I would imagine they'd be better off with incumbents. It's pretty scary to write off their chances so soon, especially with Trump edging closer to military conflict. As disastrous as it would be, I can't put out of my mind the possibility that the GOP as led by trump could make significant gains from here on the backs of armed conflict.
My conspiracy theory mind makes me wonder if the special counsel investigation is heading into territory some major GOP players don't want.
His colleagues think that he is a math whiz and policy wonk. Ryan is what qualifies as a deep thinker in the Republican Party.Allow me to list all the great things about Paul Ryan.
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didn't Ryan say he was retiring/wasn't running for re-election months ago???
I wonder if any of those Repubs who are cutting and running are actually doing it because of the guilt they feel for ripping off their constituents via the tax cuts (you know, what these rip-off artists like to call "tax reform" lol) they gave the very wealthy and the gutting of the ACA which will leave millions of their constituents without the health care they currently have.
Maybe one or two? Maybe?
Guess some Republicans still have a gag reflex.
edit : On second thought could it just be juicy out of office job offers?
Ryan hung in there for the stupidest tax bill ever to come down the pike. What an accomplishment. Now he will be an instant millionaire, as there are corporations and lobbying outfits lining up to hire him.
Thanks for the deficits you fucking moron.
Bloomberg reports that upon leaving politics, Wisconsin’s first son will have no trouble adding to a current net worth estimated at slightly more than $6 million, given the wide range of corporate boards probably already banging down his door. “The kind of board that he would go after would probably pay between $250,000 and $300,000 a year and he could probably get three or four of them,” Fred Foulkes, a professor at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business, told Bloomberg. “There would be dozens that would like to have him, particularly companies that have part of their business in key relationships with certain parts of government.” While Ryan will have to abide by a rule that says representatives must wait one year between working on Capitol Hill and lobbying work, there are no such rules about joining companies’ boards. One imagines that plenty of the Speaker‘s corporate donors, now saving millions on their tax bills, would be happy to have him.
There’s some irony in the fact that Ryan, who famously called poverty a “culture problem” of “men not even thinking about working,” who said the social safety net is a “hammock that lulls able-bodied people into complacency and dependence,” and who extolled the virtues of children seeing their father working, will be quitting his job at 48 in order to do less work for more money. Corporate board seats are famously cushy gigs that involve, typically, attending a meeting every few weeks, max. By the Boston Globe’s estimates, board members usually work fewer than five hours per week per board. The positions are so lucrative and coveted that critics say some people are discouraged from raising questions about C.E.O. pay or other issues for fear of losing their seats, which we’re sure will never been an issue for the deeply principled Ryan.
The positions are so lucrative and coveted that critics say some people are discouraged from raising questions about C.E.O. pay or other issues for fear of losing their seats, which we’re sure will never been an issue for the deeply principled Ryan.
Yes he is going to get paid and yes he is an objectively evil fuck. In America, we openly reward evil deeds and it isn't even controversial.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/201...ryan-retires-at-48-to-join-ranks-of-idle-rich
This model doesn't fit Ryan. He's spent almost his entire adult life feeding at the public trough. No doubt he'll be paid well when he joins the private sector even though he has almost no experience there.The good little boy gets his reward for being a traitor to the common folk who voted him into office.
Sad part about all of this merry-go-round for the business folks turned politicians what turned back to business folks again is that true to the old adage, the more things change the more they stay the same. Same goes for the military industrial complex.
This model doesn't fit Ryan. He's spent almost his entire adult life feeding at the public trough. No doubt he'll be paid well when he joins the private sector even though he has almost no experience there.