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With the news from Syria this

Flavius — Sun, 15 Apr 2018 02:52:33 +0000

In reply to More likely Gov.Scott Walker

With the news from Syria this topic's probably reached it s "sell by date.

Como yo.

corrected a typo

With his hours (and days off)

CVille Dem — Sat, 14 Apr 2018 12:08:32 +0000

In reply to All makes sense to me. The

With his hours (and days off) he was able to spend more time with his family than most working people. By the time they are teenagers, those kids want less time with parents and more with their pals. So if this is for the kids as he claims, he missed his window of opportunity.

I am happy to see less of his lipless face no matter what the reason. Somehow, I don’t think this tax “reform” would win him anything in 2020. What would he run on? Destroying Social Security and Medicare? Way to win the white geezer vote, Paul.

More likely Gov.Scott Walker

artappraiser — Sat, 14 Apr 2018 01:15:55 +0000

In reply to Of course money matters to

More likely Gov.Scott Walker loses in Nov. 2018 to some lackluster Dem (they've got a primary of 12 now), via anti-Trump effect and it's just sorta about time for the state to switch from the conservative thing as it has done throughout history. But the guy or gal doesn't win the continued affection of Wisconsin, and after taking a few years off to make some bucks, Ryan runs against that guy/gal in 2022. What I see as someone from Wisconsin: he's a real Janesville, Wisconsin kinda guy, I buy that he never really belonged in DC; so as Speaker, the Peter Principle was at work. He strikes me as exactly the kinda guy Wisconsin likes as governor and I think he'd enjoy the job too. Believe it or not, he has an independent reputation there,I never got how he became Speaker, as his old rep. in Wisconsin is not a tried and true party guy.

...would be shoved so far up

barefooted — Sat, 14 Apr 2018 00:28:09 +0000

In reply to Ryan's last year's product -

...would be shoved so far up his ass he'd smell like Charmin ... dunno, I'm bored.

Ryan's last year's product -

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 14 Apr 2018 00:13:47 +0000

In reply to Of course money matters to

Ryan's last year's product - was used up with the Romney run, and House speaker gave him 2nd life, but he's Trump's bitch now, and all things tTrump are going down. Ryan will seriously retire - he's boring as fuck, lives next to his brither, and his intellectual cred was way hyperboled to death. And that line to Hillary about we have to follow the rule of law would be shoved so far up his ass he'd smell Charmin. If he's not on tape taking money from Russians.

If you are correct, and Ryan

moat — Fri, 13 Apr 2018 23:45:22 +0000

In reply to Of course money matters to

If you are correct, and Ryan is getting out now in order to stop being Trump's napkin, how will his GOP colleagues feel about getting stuck with the job just when the mid terms are starting up?
If he hadn't so assiduously presented himself as a humble team player up to this point, maybe his cry of every man for himself could be forgotten after a couple of years.

Of course money matters to

Flavius — Fri, 13 Apr 2018 21:01:49 +0000

In reply to Money abounds alright, and he

Of course money matters to him and the sun rises in the East. . But that's not what he's spent most of what his adult life on. I have no reason to doubt he has a completely normal concern about his children's welfare but that didn't cause him to avoid spending that adult life trying to secure a position 1500 miles away.

Where he then spent it successfully trying to get to the top of the greasy political pole located there.

Until his actions demonstrate some concrete indications otherwise the default assumption is what true yesterday is true today .

Then why has he decided to abandon that greasy spot more or less just after slithering up ? Not IMHO because of a change in his ultimate goal or of the number of Ryan teen agers ?

In the teeth of your many cogent objections my suggestion is that he thinks the next president is not going to be Donald again. Nor somebody who spent the previous 24 months maneuvering to protect him from a richly deserved Impeachment.

The corporate tax cuts were

NCD — Thu, 12 Apr 2018 23:31:11 +0000

In reply to Money abounds alright, and he

The corporate tax cuts were the only cuts that were permanent in the Great Deficit Busting GOP Treasury Robbery, so it's Swamp payback time for Lyin Ryan.

Money abounds alright, and he

NCD — Thu, 12 Apr 2018 23:15:18 +0000

In reply to But Mike; I love my kids and

Money abounds alright, and he ain't running in '20:

Ryan Poised to Earn Millions Even If He Sheds ‘Weekend Dad’ Role

Paul Ryan will easily add to his already considerable net worth if he opts to stray from his native Wisconsin to join a corporate board or dabble in Washington power struggles when he retires next year as speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.

"The kind of board that he would go after would probably pay between $250,000 and $300,000 a year and he could probably get three or four of them," said Fred Foulkes, a professor of at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business. "There would be dozens that would like to have him, particularly companies that have part of their business in key relationships with certain parts of government."

All makes sense to me. The

artappraiser — Thu, 12 Apr 2018 20:43:31 +0000

In reply to But Mike; I love my kids and

All makes sense to me. The speaker job is thankless for the foreseeable future, all he is ever going to get from it is the name recognition and contacts he already has gotten, so now's the time for a pit stop at home to catch the end of the kids' growing up. Within a couple short years it will be an empty nest and he can hit the road again. Most people aren't lucky enough to be able to choose when to :"lean in" and when to pull back.