A New York Times story Monday revealed that House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) plans to push his own policy agenda in 2016 from the House floor regardless of who the Republican nominee is.
According to the Times, Ryan will unveil his policy proposals right before the Republican Convention in Cleveland in July and he may also propose his own rival health care plan to to the Affordable Care Act if the eventual nominee of the party does not introduce one. Superseding the nominee on policy would be a way for Ryan to keep the Republican Party’s agenda on the front burner no matter the nominee selected.
The New York Times reports that Ryan will “lay out an anti-poverty plan” and “take the highly unusual step of presenting a national security agenda that may not be in step with the nominee’s.”
While Ryan has repeatedly shot down suggestions that he should fight for the nomination at a contested convention, he does appear to be more than prepared to challenge the positions of a nominee he doesn’t agree with. While reticent to engage in 2016 politics, Ryan has called out Donald Trump on multiple occasions including the time he felt Trump was not doing enough to distance himself from one-time KKK leader David Duke.
Laughable posturing. Still thinks he can thread the needle between the psychos in his caucus and the reality-based world. Still wrong.
“While reticent to engage in 2016 politics”
While he says he is reticent to engage in 2016 politics…[insert everything he is doing, including this, that shows he’s not].
FIFY
Why do you do that? Why do you take them at their fucking word and just blabber as if it’s true despite the evidence?
I mean, the guy is saying “no no no” while he’s unzipping his pants, for fuck’s sake. He’s taking the “highly unusual” step of setting forth a national security agenda right before a convention that looks to go contested while his name is being bandied about as a potential Teatroll White Knight who can swoop in and save the country’s angry conservative Christo-fascist white mob from the results of their white-fright race-resentment nominee choices during the primary? And yet you still claim he’s “reticent.” Was that just a thesaurus word you wanted to use? HE’S FLUFFING FOR HIS BIG SCENE.
EDIT: BTW, I was wrong. I thought he would be smarter than to go for it, but I can’t say that for certain anymore.
And in doing this Ryan would hand Drumpf the gift of not having to actually give any thought to it.
Not that Drumpf might have given policy much thought anyway mind you.
Ryan: I am just not running for the POTUS. I wouldn’t mind if it’s handed over to me though.
How about doing your job as Speaker and pass a budget, or tax reform, or reform ACA, or reform immigration, or , or, anything at all except more vacations for representatives. Do your job, Ryan!
And, lose the jahad beard…