The Shaming of Paul Ryan Is Now Complete
I do not think that folks like Paul Ryan feel shame.
The Shaming of Paul Ryan Is Now Complete
https://www.thenation.com/article/the-shaming-of-paul-ryan-is-now-complete/
From silencing debate on guns to backing “textbook-racist” Trump, the GOP “leader” always puts partisanship above principle.
By John Nichols
June 23, 2016
Paul Ryan on Gun Control
House Speaker Paul Ryan at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Thursday, June 23, 2016. (AP Photo / Evan Vucci)
The New York Daily News has a way of settling issues with front-page headlines. And the feisty tabloid’s headline on the morning after Speaker Paul Ryan shut down the House rather than allow a debate on gun-violence legislation settled it for Ryan.
A picture of the speaker appeared next to a headline “NRA’s Li’l Lapdog.” Perched on Ryan’s shoulder was the chief apologist for the gun industry, National Rifle Association taskmaster Wayne LaPierre, screeching “Heel, Paul, heel. Good boy!” A smaller headline ridiculed Ryan for claiming that he was upholding the Constitution when, in fact, the Wisconsin Republican was doing the bidding of the gun interests that have so consistently and generously funded his campaigns when he adjourned the House in the early hours of June 23.
As the overwhelming majority of Democrats and some Republicans step up to acknowledge—following the June 12 massacre in Orlando—that something must be done to address gun violence in America, the newspaper’s front page asked, “What does Speaker Ryan do?”
Now that he is at the top of the political ladder, Paul Ryan is revealed as nothing more than a cynical careerist.
The answer: “Rolls over, again.”
...................
Yet, now that he is at the top of the ladder, Ryan is revealed as nothing more than a cynical careerist, with no political courage and no clues about how to wield the power he has attained for any purpose other than rewarding his corporate benefactors. ......................
