As I posted two weeks ago, Paul Ryan (R-WI) has already shown that he’s not the great legislator many people thought he would be when he replaced John Boehner (R-OH) as speaker of the House of Representatives and promised something new. In his eight months on the job Ryan has been as incapable as Boehner was in dealing with the various factions in the Republican caucus and getting things done.
The result has been “regular disorder” rather than the regular order Ryan promised when he ascended to the Iron Throne in the House.
There had been some hope that Ryan’s problems within his own party would lead him to become some kind of statesman who would consider compromising. That would make him a political savior who could end the political warfare that has frozen Washingtonover much of the past two decades.
But Ryan clearly demonstrated last week that those hopes were wrong. Rather than the political messiah, he is nothing more than a speaker who can’t or won’t respond to a difficult situation in anything but an extreme one-sided manner that sabotages all efforts at bipartisanship. For the full article click here
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