Good riddance to Paul Ryan

[Va Lefty]

"Paul Ryan’s farewell tour is going about as well as you might imagine. The retiring speaker of the House, who made a career out of promoting his aw-shucks humility, has presided over the revealing of not one but three painted portraits of himself. In less-controlled settings, his interviews with media outlets have, rather than provide a victory lap, only served to highlight the emptiness of Ryan’s words and the failures of his time in office. Speaking of those empty words, Ryan was also set to leave us with a formal farewell address at the Library of Congress earlier this week ― until George H.W. Bush’s funeral threw off the plans. It was yet another reminder that history has rarely been on Ryan’s side."

"Not surprisingly, that’s not Ryan’s own assessment of his time in public life. In a recent interview with The Washington Post, Ryan blithely proclaimed that “history is going to be very good to this majority” ― the same majority that had just suffered the worst Republican losses since Watergate. Like so many of Ryan’s supposed grand ideas, the comment was little more than mere grandstanding. And it betrayed what has always been at the heart of his rise to power and his fall: a plain disconnection from the reality around him."

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opinion-paul-ryan-speaker-of-the-house-retirement_us_5c0ac1afe4b0a606a9a87bc1

[milestogo]

1. Ari Melber reviewed his history of non-accomplishments this week.

He's a LOSER.

https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/ari-melber-paul-ryan-speakership-failure

[NCjack]

12. Even Dennis Hastert did a better job. nt

[Roy Rolling]

13. Saw That

How has he been masquerading as an effective Speaker for years? Fox News.

[calimary]

18. Total LOSER.

That’s the only thing he’ll be remembered for.

[peekaloo]

2. I wish him well and sincerely hope

he ends up like his heroine Ayn Rand.

Pinocchio lookin' bastard.

[dalton99a]

3. I hope karma gives that corrupt sadistic treasonous POS an expensive, painful, and crippling disease

so he can no longer run a marathon in less than three hours

[Greybnk48]

4. Lyin' Ryan to the bitter end. And bitter it is. n/t

[brush]

5. An ineffectual blip in history. He won't be missed.

Go already.

[2naSalit]

6. Hope he likes to

wear orange.

[StevieM]

7. In his own way, Paul Ryan is worse than Donald Trump.

He certainly did a better job of selling the GOP lies about the fake email scandal, which is the only reason we lost the last election.

[dalton99a]

8. +1. When people talk about Jason Chaffetz and Devin Nunes, they don't think about Paul Ryan

but Ryan was the enabler behind them

[oasis]

9. 100% agree. nt

[ZeroSomeBrains]

10. Goodbye to one of the "young guns"

Good riddance. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

[PatSeg]

11. So nice to have something to look

forward to in the New Year. Ryan is one of many who will be leaving DC in 2019 (unless they come back as lobbyists that is).

[NoMoreRepugs]

14. Another Repug whose accomplishments are a fantasy.

Seems to be a common theme these days.

[William Seger]

15. It's a tough job, few have done well

... which is why replacing Pelosi with someone younger just because they were younger would be a very foolish thing to do.

[Iggo]

16. He's third string President for three more weeks.

Don't jump the gun.

[Enoki33]

17. Ryan can now stop walking around with the briefcase he uses to promote

the deception on the American people that he is some kind of policy wonk. He is, at least for three more weeks, the biggest fraud and dirtiest member of Congress who is owned by the Koch’s.

[cstanleytech]

19. "disconnection from the reality around him." Something which the vast majority of Repugnants

suffer from.

[llmart]

20. Another narcissist...

trying to rewrite his own history.

[Tobin S.]

21. Until he runs for president in 2024.

I don't think we've seen the last of him.