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"In a valedictory interview with the Washington Post, House Speaker Paul Ryan depicted himself, and was in turn depicted by his hosts, as he has always chosen to be seen: a wonk-statesman, a little too good and pure for the ugly world of politics, who pointed the way toward a brighter and more responsible future..."
"Hes worked to solve important national challenges, including tax reform and fiscal sustainability, said Post publisher Fred Ryan. To be sure, the fiscal sustainability issue may not have been solved completely (the deficit has, indeed, nearly doubled under the unified government carrying out Ryans agenda despite the mature recovery), so the retiring Speaker had to offer an awkward half-apology. The two regrets I wish we could have gotten done, he acknowledged, were immigration reform and debt."
"Nobody present was so impolite as to point out that Ryan has devoted his career to passing policies that would increase the national debt. Under the Bush administration, he supported every one of the debt-financed measures that turned the surplus the administration inherited into the trillion-dollar annual deficit it bequeathed its successor: tax cuts, a Medicare prescription-drug benefit, wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and a large security buildup, all financed by debt."
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/11/paul-ryan-departing-washington-in-a-blaze-of-fraudulence.html
thegoose
(3,115 posts)Along with McLipless and Lindsay Graham. You can bet their pockets are packed with Russia money.
KPN
(15,642 posts)They are the foundational lightning rods for rallying their base. Where would they be without them? Out of office!
EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)A promising career that he allowed to sink in the mud.
Bye, boy ...
brush
(53,764 posts)Last edited Fri Nov 30, 2018, 01:57 PM - Edit history (1)
scam he finally pulled off. Included in that scam of a bill which funnels wealth upwards, is a provision that gives corporations even less of a tax bite if they off-shore jobsthus GM's shuttering of plants here while moving work to Mexico.
Woohoo, helluva job, paulie.
ProfessorGAC
(64,989 posts)Spot on, brush!