Paul Ryan to retire next year

[Atreus21]

https://www.politico.com/magazine/s...-retire-speaker-ready-leave-washington-216103

Always struck me as a decent guy. Particularly for the fact that Bannon hates him.

 

[zinfamous]

Says "he felt that he was made for this moment."

That's odd, coming from a guy that needed coercion to step into the Speaker roll that he absolutely never wanted.

 

[senseamp]

That rat chewed through the hull, now fleeing a sinking ship.

Got scared of the Iron Stache.

 

[deathBOB]

On a personal level he seems decent. But I find his views on the poor and the government’s role in society to be repulsive.

 

[pauldun170]

Screw Ryan. He got into government because he wanted to Ayn Rand the place and jump ship as soon as he felt he got what he wanted.

Public service is about serving others. Not getting your personal bucket list accomplished.
Mitch McConnell can go join him.

 

[senseamp]

On a personal level he seems decent. But I find his views on the poor and the government’s role in society to be repulsive.

How is someone dedicated to kicking down the poor to give tax cuts to the rich "decent" on a personal level? He doesn't beat his wife and kids?

 

[bshole]

That rat chewed through the hull, now fleeing a sinking ship.

Got scared of the Iron Stache.

LoL are you trolling us? Get real. After delivering this massive wealth transfer to his masters, he will be taking a position paying MILLIONS with some corporation or another. Judas has got to get paid... We reward people with fortunes for ruining America, that is how we roll. Fuck him and fuck the shitbags that will be paying him off after this colossally evil act.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Ryan is similar to McCain. I don't like his politics however he seems like a decent guy. Shits getting interesting for next year.

 

[bshole]

https://www.politico.com/magazine/s...-retire-speaker-ready-leave-washington-216103

Always struck me as a decent guy. Particularly for the fact that Bannon hates him.

 

[soundforbjt]

So he’s not interested in becoming president? Don’t think he will turn it down if Trump & Pence fall.

 

[Engineer]

Yeah, the asshat wants to cut SS/Medicare and then run without any worries of election. Of course, he'll get to keep his nice, cushy pension.

That's why he wants to do 'entitlement reform' in 2018. Now the mystery is revealed.....

 

[Atreus21]

On a personal level he seems decent. But I find his views on the poor and the government’s role in society to be repulsive.

That's the best you have? Aren't you going to call him Satan incarnate, covered in the blood of the poor and helpless, and he who delights in the demise and suffering of the innocent?

You've missed the memo sir. If someone disagrees with you, he's not only wrong - he's evil. He's Hitler.

But seriously, thanks for a civil response. They're not common, as is plain to see.

 

[Sunburn74]

https://www.politico.com/magazine/s...-retire-speaker-ready-leave-washington-216103

Always struck me as a decent guy. Particularly for the fact that Bannon hates him.

Decent guy? You realize he is modeling his career and views after Ronald Reagan? I think he has a book out there where at age 10 was when he developed his reagan fascination and political desire to be just like him and to espouse his ideas.

I would call Paul Ryan spineless, a corporate shill, lacking compassion and morals entirely for the must vulnerable portions of our society. Decent guy though? No. Not at all. Rather my opinion is good riddance to bad rubbish. On that note this is exactly what people predicted what Trump would do the GOP. Kill the party essentially. His election was the end of an era rather than the start of something big.

 

[Atreus21]

Yeah, the asshat wants to cut SS/Medicare and then run without any worries of election. Of course, he'll get to keep his nice, cushy pension.

That's why he wants to do 'entitlement reform' in 2018. Now the mystery is revealed.....

SS and Medicare most definitely need reform.

 

[senseamp]

SS and Medicare most definitely need reform.

They should be suspended until Trump base dies off. Give it 10 years.

 

[pauldun170]

So he’s not interested in becoming president? Don’t think he will turn it down if Trump & Pence fall.

Leave in 2018 and put some space between him and the stank that Trump is inflicting on every republican in congress. Put out the occasional "Not with Trump" editorial.
Wait until 2022 and then start shaving again. 2023 throw hat in the ring.

 

[senseamp]

Decent Republican = Oxymoron.

 

[Phokus]

https://www.politico.com/magazine/s...-retire-speaker-ready-leave-washington-216103

Always struck me as a decent guy. Particularly for the fact that Bannon hates him.

Lol, he dreamed about cutting healthcare for poor people during keggers in his college days, how the hell is he a 'decent guy'?

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/3/17/14960358/paul-ryan-medicaid-keg

He's a full blown sociopath.

 

[zinfamous]

That's the best you have? Aren't you going to call him Satan incarnate, covered in the blood of the poor and helpless, and he who delights in the demise and suffering of the innocent?

That may be getting ahead of ourselves because I think he's still too young to reveal his true form to mortal humans, but you're not wrong.

 

[senseamp]

Lol, he dreamed about cutting healthcare for poor people during keggers in his college days, how the hell is he a 'decent guy'?

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/3/17/14960358/paul-ryan-medicaid-keg

He's a full blown sociopath.

To conservatives, a pedophile is a decent guy. Simply being antisocial is not even on their radar as indecency

 

[Atreus21]

They should be suspended until Trump base dies off. Give it 10 years.

Lol, he dreamed about cutting healthcare for poor people during keggers in his college days, how the hell is he a 'decent guy'?

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/3/17/14960358/paul-ryan-medicaid-keg

He's a full blown sociopath.

Yes, he's just evil evil EVIL. He really does enjoy seeing old people suffer, the evil bastard.

 

[senseamp]

Yes, he's just evil evil EVIL. He really does enjoy seeing old people suffer, the evil bastard.

They voted for it. Let them have it. Why should they be protected from the consequences of voting Republican?

 

[Engineer]

SS and Medicare most definitely need reform.

If you mean 'cuts', no. If you mean 'cuts', fuck no. Yes, I repeated myself. I've paid into those for 30 years and I'll be damned if I'm going to let the generation before me decide to cut it after they have reaped the benefits.

 

[UNCjigga]

Well, assuming tax reform passes, he would have done what his donors put him there to do. Time to cash out and get a piece of that gravy train.

 

[senseamp]

If you mean 'cuts', no. If you mean 'cuts', fuck no. Yes, I repeated myself. I've paid into those for 30 years and I'll be damned if I'm going to let the generation before me decide to cut it after they have reaped the benefits.

The problem is Republican SS and Medicare "reforms" are reserved for future recipients, while protecting the people voting for them from the consequences of their own votes.