Pierce: Now Paul Ryan Is Casually Throwing Around the Word 'Cleanse'

[babylonsister]

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a15929493/paul-ryan-cleanse/

Now Paul Ryan Is Casually Throwing Around the Word 'Cleanse'
Normal leader, normal day, normal country.
By Charles P. Pierce
Jan 30, 2018


WASHINGTON—You may have missed it, but two of the government’s most influential eunuchs came out in public on Tuesday. They sang their songs in a lovely soprano voice. There was hardly a dollop of spittle left to lick when they were done. First up was Speaker Paul Ryan, the zombie-eyed granny starver from the state of Wisconsin who had a bit of a meltdown at his daily press conference when the subject of the president*’s attempt to demolish the FBI came up. From The Hill:

“Let it all out, get it all out there. Cleanse the organization,” Ryan said, according to Fox. “I think we should disclose all this stuff. It’s the best disinfectant. Accountability, transparency — for the sake of the reputation of our institutions,” he added. Ryan reportedly made the remarks at a largely off-the-record session with anchors and reporters ahead of President Trump's State of the Union address on Tuesday night. Ryan went on the record to address the release of the House Intelligence Committee memo.

“Cleanse”? Is he out of his mind? Does he have any idea what that word means in the history of the last century? And “cleanse” the FBI of what, precisely? Agents who know the truth about the corrupt old man who has Ryan’s balls on the mantelpiece at Mar-A-Lago? Agents who can draw into sharp relief all the damage that Ryan is willing to force the republic to endure so his donor class can suck up even more the nation’s wealth? You can put Paul Ryan’s essential patriotism in a shotglass and have more than enough room for the whiskey. He’s the biggest fake in the history of the Congress, and that’s saying something.

Elsewhere in the Capitol, a Senate committee got a chance to ask questions of Scott Pruitt, the energy-industry sublet now in charge of the Environmental Protection Agency. Most of the questions involved Pruitt’s campaign to put oil wells and open-pit mines on every half-acre of public land. But there also was some curiosity about what Pruitt said concerning the current president* back when Pruitt was working with Jeb Bush’s expiring campaign. From CNN:

"I believe that Donald Trump in the White House will be more abusive to the Constitution than Barack Obama and that's saying a lot," Pruitt said during a February 4, 2016, interview on Tulsa radio station KFAQ.

It got better.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, read Pruitt's remarks and asked him, "Do you recall saying that?"

"I don't, senator," Pruitt said. "I don't echo that today at all.

Later, of course, Pruitt’s office turned the fulsome up to 11, just in case Russian hitmen were hanging about.

"After meeting him, and now having the honor of working for him, it is abundantly clear that President Trump is the most consequential leader of our time," he said in a statement released by the EPA. "No one has done more to advance the rule of law than President Trump. The President has liberated our country from the political class and given America back to the people."

I expect that, during tonight’s State of the Union, a lot of the Republicans in Congress, as well as key figures in the administration*, will pass the time by playing a little solitaire.

[Angry Dragon]

1. Let us cleanse congress first

[Cha]

3. Yeah, that's where the fucking "cleanse" needs

to be applied.. starting with fucked up, paul ryan. Cleanse!

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. Ryan and Nunes are guilty of conspiracy with Russia and they are scared.

These traitors might get away with it though.

[SergeStorms]

16. I really, really, really hope.....

Mueller extends his investigation into members of Congress as well. We need to get all of these Russian loving bastards out of Congress, and we need to do it NOW!

[global1]

4. I'm Getting An "Invasion Of The Body Snatchers" Vibe.....nt

[saidsimplesimon]

5. The speaker is what he is.

It is up to the voters in his patch to send him home without honors. imo

[madaboutharry]

6. The word "Cleanse" jumped out at me immediately.

It is something Stalin would have said.

They are all compromised.

[Frustratedlady]

7. Ryan's problem is that he believes we care what he thinks.

We passed that line for Ryan and McConnell a long time ago. For the last decade or two, they have been talking to Republicans who sucked up all their ideas and lies. Democrats don't do that, so don't bother.

Cleanse? There isn't enough soap in the world to clean up your party. Keep your filthy hands off our intelligence and justice departments. You've already done enough damage there. Don't even think of touching the Democratic party nor our precious country.

[jmowreader]

15. It won't take any soap at all to clean up their party

It WILL take about a million gallons of bunker oil. We simply load them all onto ships, haul them to Africa, go as far up the Congo River as we possibly can, and abandon them.

[Baitball Blogger]

8. He wants to "cleanse" the agencies of non political friendlies.

Ryan is promoting a take-over.

[spanone]

9. selective amnesia

criminal motherhumpers

[ThoughtCriminal]

10. Let's call a "Purge" instead

And by "Getting it all out there", they have made it clear that by "all", they mean just the GOP staffer conspiracy theories and stuff that compromises our National Security.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

11. transfuse from Charles P. Pierce

Anybody close enough to Pierce to request a few pints of his blood? We need to get some into the veins of some Congress critters.

Maybe inject a few "journalists", too.

[BadgerMom]

12. Do I despise Ryan more or McConnell?

Honestly, I hate those two more than I do Trump. Although, I guess it’s different on different days of the week.

[roamer65]

13. Sounds like ethno-political cleansing.

Think former Yugoslavia.

Dump has much in common with Slobodan Milosevic.

[ancianita]

14. Glad Pierce amplifies "cleanse." First it was "drain." Given time, the next word will be "purge." nt

[gademocrat7]

17. Lying Ryan is a treason weasel.

He is a greedy evil man.