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https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a20748027/paul-ryan-farm-bill-bad-speaker/
Paul Ryan Is an Almost Comically Inept Speaker of the House
Our latest exhibit is the Farm Bill fiasco.
BY CHARLES P. PIERCE
MAY 18, 2018
On its merits, the Farm Bill that failed to pass in the House of Representatives on Friday was a great pile of that out of which you cannot make chicken salad. It would have knuckled the poor who subsist on food stamps with work requirements that most states are not willing to pay to implement as serious policy. So, from the start, the unanimous Democratic opposition to this misbegotten lump of mucilage was virtually guaranteed. But that doesnt make the defeat of the bill unworthy of comic chortling because, once again, we learned that Speaker Paul Ryan, the zombie-eyed granny starver from the state of Wisconsin, has all the political dexterity of a rubber mallet.
Ultimately, the bill failed because the flying monkeys of the Freedom Caucus took wing against it. They demanded some kind of hard-line immigration bill in exchange for their vote on the farm bill. (Dont bother trying to figure it out, Jake. Its Washingtontown.) Ryan was helpless in the face of this, because he long ago discovered that the Freedom Caucus had buried his gonads in the same potters field in which they buried John Boehners long ago.
Ryan is an almost comically bad Speaker of the House. He has no control over his caucus and he is both unwilling and unable to cobble together any Democrats to work with him. (This, by the way, is because Nancy Pelosi is way out of Ryans league as a legislative politician, which is why so many Republicans are encouraging Democrats like Tim Ryan to toss her aside.) It is about at this point where we hear that poor Paul didnt want to be Speaker in the first place, that he has heard that ol Rock River acallin and begun ayearnin for his ol Nationally Registered Historic Home.
He got what he came here for: a ludicrously unbalanced and economically laughable tax reform package that shoved ever more money upwards into the donor class for which he always has been a reliable marionette. Outside of that, the Republicans would have done better for a Speaker if theyd posted the job on Craigslist.
Me.
(35,454 posts)and he, ambitious as he is, is more than willing to comply/
tblue37
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to be elected in their districts, without worrying about her feelings. (She would be chosen majority leader anyway.)
Cha
(297,220 posts)mcar
(42,329 posts)Codeine
(25,586 posts)Me.
(35,454 posts)Overseas
(12,121 posts)Getting rid of, or cutting food stamps is also economically stupid. Our economy benefits from the SNAP program.
I'm so glad dumb Republican cruelty didn't succeed in passing this Farm Bill.
I also strongly agree that Republican bots & trolls are encouraging Dems to push Pelosi aside because she was a very effective Speaker.
Cha
(297,220 posts)DFW
(54,378 posts)Put up signs at the entrance to every school saying, "Wait! Think before you shoot!"
That should give the captain of the school's football team time enough to tackle any shooter contemplating the sign before he has time to act.
Cha
(297,220 posts)DFW
(54,378 posts)I think even Ryan himself knew these britches were a size too big when he took the position of Speaker. After all, he had to be talked into going for the position kicking and screaming, and was only chosen because no other Republican with an IQ over 2 digits wanted the job.
Cha
(297,220 posts)a good idea for VP.. ol pot washing ryan.
mcar
(42,329 posts)mcar
(42,329 posts)Good on Sen Schatz.