In a prescient piece, CNN noted in mid-December that Paul Ryan was engaged in "soul searching" about whether to run for re-election.
The search is over, with four months being the operative time frame to make such an effort in GOP-controlled DC:
* Like that time Ryan said there were too many lazy men in inner cities, then engaged in some dizzying spin and back-walking by explaining he'd been "inarticulate."
Seriously. Your job is "Speaker," and that's your claim? Stop.
* Then there were those mountains he didn't really climb and a marathon he didn't run like Superman. Dang inarticulation!
* But if it's records Ryan wants, consider that if he holds to form - - as he just did when he refused to hold or attend a town hall meeting in his district on guns safety when similar town halls were held nationwide - - Ryan could go 1,000 days without one when he leaves office in January, 2019.
The count was already at day 650 in July, 2017. For politicians, that's Cal Ripkinesque.
* There's the cringe-worthy sucking-up cover he gave to the Trump when he fired then-FBI Director James Comey.
Not much soul-searching in evidence (pun intended) as Ryan explained that Trump was 'new at this' pesky law-and-sworn-oath following.
* And speaking of having any Republican's back, Ryan has reliably defended, protected, enabled and otherwise encouraged the deceitful, ultra-partisan and non-recused 'recused' House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes whom Ryan has failed to rein in. Noted, here.
* And Ryan is quitting Congress with a burst of condescension, likening his surroundings to "a daycare center" - - which, if you think about it is willfully negligent, since what daycare manager quits, walks out and leaves the door open?
The search is over, with four months being the operative time frame to make such an effort in GOP-controlled DC:
Ryan gives up without a fightBut before the mythologizing machine makes Ryan into the latest Hope Hicks -style innocent whom big bad Trump went and ruined, let's file away a few of his career highlights:
* Like that time Ryan said there were too many lazy men in inner cities, then engaged in some dizzying spin and back-walking by explaining he'd been "inarticulate."
Seriously. Your job is "Speaker," and that's your claim? Stop.
* Then there were those mountains he didn't really climb and a marathon he didn't run like Superman. Dang inarticulation!
* But if it's records Ryan wants, consider that if he holds to form - - as he just did when he refused to hold or attend a town hall meeting in his district on guns safety when similar town halls were held nationwide - - Ryan could go 1,000 days without one when he leaves office in January, 2019.
The count was already at day 650 in July, 2017. For politicians, that's Cal Ripkinesque.
* There's the cringe-worthy sucking-up cover he gave to the Trump when he fired then-FBI Director James Comey.
Not much soul-searching in evidence (pun intended) as Ryan explained that Trump was 'new at this' pesky law-and-sworn-oath following.
* And speaking of having any Republican's back, Ryan has reliably defended, protected, enabled and otherwise encouraged the deceitful, ultra-partisan and non-recused 'recused' House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes whom Ryan has failed to rein in. Noted, here.
* And Ryan is quitting Congress with a burst of condescension, likening his surroundings to "a daycare center" - - which, if you think about it is willfully negligent, since what daycare manager quits, walks out and leaves the door open?
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