Stand Up, Paul Ryan, or Step Aside

[riversedge]

First Ryan runs to Trump and then Nunes runs to Trump. Both of them need to be outed from their leadership roles!



The Opinion Pages | Op-Ed Contributor

Stand Up, Paul Ryan, or Step Aside

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/07/opinion/stand-up-paul-ryan-or-step-aside.html

By MICKEY EDWARDS APRIL 7, 2017

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Paul Ryan in Washington, D.C. on March 24, 2017. Credit Gabriella Demczuk for The New York Times

WASHINGTON —....................... But it may be time for him to quit his post as speaker. It is a position for which, thus far, he has proved remarkably unsuited and in which he has allowed the House to suffer a series of humiliations.

As its central feature, the Constitution mandates a deliberate separation between the legislative and administrative, or executive, branches of government. This is not a matter of architecture, a quirk of structural whim. The separation is intended to ensure that no single person or branch of government will amass an excess of power and that the citizenry will retain a firm grip on the government’s policy-making process. If the Congress cedes its independence, the entire constitutional framework, which depends on a system of checks and balances, is compromised.

Maintaining that carefully constructed system is a particular duty of the speaker. Mr. Ryan, though pledged to uphold the Constitution, has taken to acting as though he and the Republicans he leads are members of the White House staff.

Under Mr. Ryan’s leadership, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, in the midst of conducting hearings looking into possible wrongdoing by the president or his advisers, briefed the president on the progress and findings of the investigation. The chairman, Devin Nunes, facing ethics complaints over his conduct, has temporarily stepped down, with Mr. Ryan’s approval. But the speaker was under an obligation to have immediately removed Mr. Nunes from his chairmanship in order to assert the House’s independence from the White House. Instead, for days — because he, too, apparently sees himself as one of Donald Trump’s assistants — Mr. Ryan continued to back Mr. Nunes.

That was a failure of omission, but there have also been failures of commission that have undermined the independence of the House. When President Trump demanded the health care bill be brought to the floor for a vote on a particular day last week, Mr. Ryan complied rather than telling Mr. Trump that the speaker, not the president, decides the House schedule.

This was an opportunity for Mr. Ryan to assert the status of Congress as a separate branch, yet he reaffirmed his submissiveness. When it became clear there were not sufficient votes to pass the bill, Mr. Ryan went to the White House to argue for pulling it. But that was his call to make, not the president’s. The proper action for the speaker was to cancel the vote and inform the president accordingly............................

[samnsara]

1. then trump runs to putin..from ryans lips into putins arms..

[Skittles]

2. lost me with the first line

a man of integrity and intelligence? The man is a fucking worm.