After the president's tweet, I must withdraw my support for everything but his agenda

[dalton99a]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2017/06/30/after-the-presidents-tweet-i-must-withdraw-my-support-for-everything-but-his-agenda/

After the president’s tweet, I must withdraw my support for everything but his agenda
By Alexandra Petri | June 30 at 12:31 PM



I stand with my colleagues in Congress to say: The president’s tweet is beneath the dignity of the office.

This is not making America great.

The president has at last done the unthinkable: He has insulted a morning television personality in crude and ghastly terms and I must — in consequence of this hideous and vile breach of the dignity of the office — withdraw none of my support from his legislative agenda. (If you can call it a legislative agenda and not a ragtag collection of bad ideas quickly stapled together with a dead pigeon in the middle.)

His remark about Mika Brzezinski is absolutely shameful and I do not stand with him, except insofar as it is necessary to stand with him so that we can make sure infants get access to pesticides, as the Founders would have wished.

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Gee Paulie,

couldn't you do a little better? What a Fake!

[diva77]

3. no kidding - this from someone ready to kick over 22 million people off health insurance

the hypocrisy should be proclaimed far and wide by the media ...oops...corporate controlled media is on the same page with him

[Wellstone ruled]

5. Well World,you are seeing the real

Paul Ryan. Yes,he got his free College Education as a result of the Socialist Social Security Administration,ah,I got mine screw you.

[diva77]

6. I wish media would make a note of that everytime they intro. him for interviews!!

that might help make a dent in reshaping media coverage

[athena]

10. The piece is not by Paul Ryan. It is satire.

Read it more carefully.

[diva77]

15. Thank you for pointing that out

I will say that it realistically depicts the ultra-hypocrisy and preposterousness of our "so-called" speaker of the house

[athena]

9. This is not by Paul Ryan. It is satire by Alexandra Petri.

The OP should have made this clearer.

ETA: I see that the OP *did* make it quite clear. People just look at the title and the picture and draw their own conclusion. I guess it's too hard to actually read a few lines of text.

[diva77]

17. Actually, I read it. I am so jaded by the repug posers in congress that I believed it

[athena]

18. It is confusing.

I was too harsh in my posts. People don't always have time to read an entire article. When I first looked at it, I also thought it was by Paul Ryan. It's only when I clicked on it and started reading that I realized it was satire.

Somehow, the picture draws one's attention, which makes it easy to miss the author's name. And many of the sentences sound like they might have been written by Ryan. It would make a lot of sense, after all, for Ryan to distance himself from Trump's tweets without denouncing his right-wing ideas. The important point, though, is that Ryan has *not* made a statement about the tweets. The reason I'm annoyed with the OP is that it actually makes Ryan look better than he is by giving the impression that Ryan has the decency to denounce Trump's attacks on the media.

[Squinch]

2. "So, like, I'm going to help him kill people and ruin families, and demolish the

rights of women, but, like, I just can't get behind his being mean to Mika."

[LakeArenal]

4. !!!!!

[YCHDT]

11. lol

[argyl]

7. Spake the Lord High Weenie Chickenshit. What a coward.

[athena]

13. This is not by Paul Ryan. Read more carefully.

As the OP indicates, the piece is by Alexandra Petri. And if you read carefully, you will realize it's satire.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

8. Everyone knows this is satire, right?

I mean, Petri's among the best in the business, but...

[Vinca]

12. What agenda? The agenda is whatever the last person said to him.

[athena]

14. Would you please add some text at the beginning of the OP,

preferably in capital letters and set off with several stars, to indicate that this is not actually by Paul Ryan and that it's satire? Clearly, most DUers don't have the patience to read a few lines of text, and they go away with the false impression that Paul Ryan has actually said something to distance himself from Trump's tweets. He has not.

[malaise]

16. Hehehehehhe

great satire - sounds just like Lyin' Ryan.