Ryan breaks with Trump on Arpaio pardon
Source: The Hill
BY BROOKE SEIPEL - 08/26/17 05:36 PM EDT
Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) disagrees with President Trump's decision to pardon former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday.
"The speaker does not agree with the decision, Ryan's spokesman Doug Andres told The Wall Street Journal. Law-enforcement officials have a special responsibility to respect the rights of everyone in the United States. We should not allow anyone to believe that responsibility is diminished by this pardon.
The White House announced on Friday the president would pardon Arpaio, who had been found guilty of racially profiling.
Arpaio was scheduled to be sentenced in October.
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/house/348129-ryan-breaks-with-trump-on-arpaio-pardon-report
mpcamb
(2,931 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)He stands behind Trump, but says "obeying the law is a good thing," to protect himself and point to that in the future, when he's running for President.
stopbush
(24,580 posts)Uh huh.
Ever notice how when right-wingers decide to throw out all precedent and rewrite the law to benefit a single RW person that such actions should not be taken as setting a precendent in the law?
Arpaio yesterday.
Bush v Gore in 2000.
LonePirate
(13,806 posts)Hopefully Mueller can take him down as well.
geomon666
(7,512 posts)Introduce articles of impeachment. That'll be a break.
Xipe Totec
(44,001 posts)winetourdriver01
(1,154 posts)Ryan, Turtle Man, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff are the only people standing between us and a full blown Fascist Corporate Dictatorship. I am sixty six years old and scared shitless.
Xipe Totec
(44,001 posts)Never seen a tighter cluster-fuck in my lifetime.
potone
(1,701 posts)And anyone who doesn't, should. It hasn't been this bad since the early days of the civil rights movement, and I think it is going to get worse.
tymorial
(3,433 posts)I was just writing earlier that all of these statements, and Twitter postings, and interviews with the media amount to nothing. At a certain point these so-called Representatives up the people need to put up or shut up and that moment is long past. They need to spend less time worrying about reelection in their base and more time exercising their Duty by honoring their oath of office.
These men claim to love the Constitution so much and yet they allow the orange menace to piss all over it everyday.
C Moon
(12,473 posts)Adrahil
(13,340 posts)Since he won't do anything, he is a moral coward.
Mike Nelson
(10,210 posts)...he does agree. He's in a position of power and should be taking action, not issuing weak statements. A strong condemnation should be Ryan's first move, followed by action.
MyOwnPeace
(17,192 posts)and I'm not betting that the chicken-s**t is going to make that first move!
JDC
(10,350 posts)Major Nikon
(36,877 posts)...then in true milquetoast fashion issues a tepid response for his own political advantage.
tymorial
(3,433 posts)So that they don't have to. They're all sitting with the thumbs up their ass waiting for Mueller. If he comes up with evidence and they have a scapegoat they can blame it on him when election time comes around and pretend they had no choice. They're all gutless
Aviation Pro
(13,035 posts)And his usual measured and cowardly statement.
Perseus
(4,341 posts)he doesn't have the cojones to go on TV and say it himself, he has to have his spokesman say it for him, I guess he doesn't want people to see his knees shaking and his voice cracking.
Solly Mack
(91,745 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)It's all smoke and mirrors BULLSHIT!!!!!!!!!!
BigmanPigman
(52,129 posts)bluestarone
(17,855 posts)one of them will lift a finger to stop this asshole
hay rick
(8,056 posts)He won't try that again.
Kashkakat v.2.0
(1,820 posts)riversedge
(72,032 posts)Bladewire
(381 posts)Brave-newworld
(10 posts)Ryan is the most fortunate man in all of this:
Hes 3rd in line to the presidency
No matter what, unless the American people start to actually think things through and do the right thing in the midterms in kicking all these bums out, he could practically do whatever he wants.
Ryan could seriously singlehandedly kick Drumpf out alone by himself with the 25th amendment.
He should start wearing women's underwear on his face because he's the biggest pussy on this planet!
elfin
(6,262 posts)A main challenger to Trump ( or possibly Pence) in 2020.
Making moves already with major donors and oh so carefully (he thinks) statements to the press.
We are on to the "Googly-eyed Granny Starver" (aka Charles Pierce appellation) and we MUST make his deficiencies clearly understood by the electorate.
Better yet, dethrone him in 2018. But even that may not stop him with the BIG MONEY flowing his way.
Eliot Rosewater
(32,179 posts)and you impeach the traitor.
Until then, fuck you
RestoreAmerica2020
(3,455 posts)...not listening to your lying face...get some ganas, coward!
NNadir
(34,104 posts)Ryan is a representative of an openly racist party dedicated to, by and for racists.
His weaseling weak apologetics do nothing but make him look more odious than he already was.
Turbineguy
(38,099 posts)to stay on the lee side of the Constitution.
I'm guessing Trump has not read it yet.
raven mad
(4,940 posts)democrank
(11,230 posts)by saying a whole lot of nothing. He's always so careful to avoid confronting Trump directly, thereby guaranteeing his place in the top ten Trump enablers.