PAUL RYAN IS PAYING DEARLY FOR HIS VOTE FOR TRUMP

…The Speaker of the House of Representative

 

Is the House Speaker part of the problem….or the solution?

 

Even as I have little respect for the former House Budget Chairman’s budget proposals that were offered by the now current House Speaker, Paul Ryan, I do respect him as an honest man that truly believes in his conservative ideology.

 

In all that I know of this Representative of a small district in Wisconsin, Mr. Ryan seems to be a God Fearing man that loves his country and wants to do what’s right by his constituents.

 

In the beginning of the GOP primaries, a few Republican leaders of principle offered some resistance to what became the lies, fearmongering and bigotry of the Trump campaign.  Paul Ryan was one of those that seriously resisted.

 

Back in March, the new Speaker had stated: “…all of us as leaders can hold ourselves to the highest standards of integrity and decency,” and that “we shouldn’t accept ugliness as the norm.”

 

For those of us that follow the nation’s politics closely, this was a positive and heartening idea for believing that the Speaker was sticking with his true values of requiring real honesty and sincerity.

 

Then after 29 days of refusing to endorse the presumed GOP nominee, Mr. Ryan capitulated to all the ugliness.  I think this was a very sad day for the Speaker, for his party, and for all Americans who hoped that some Republican leaders would have the fortitude to put principle over partisanship. 

 

Speaker Ryan obviously had been given enough information about Trump that regardless of what he disagreed with Mr. Trump, he became convinced that at least a president Trump would support any legislation that might be sent to the president from the Republican House.

 

And this was the reasoning that he presented to his home-state newspaper. 

 

Speaker Ryan explained his belated endorsement of Mr. Trump, when the speaker said that conversations with the presumptive Republican presidential nominee reassured him that a president Trump would help turn House GOP ideas into actual US law, in a way that a President Hillary Clinton would not.

 

“That’s the thing about politics,” Mr. Ryan said a while back. “We think of it in terms of this vote or that election. But it can be so much more than that. Politics can be a battle of ideas, not insults. It can be about solutions. It can be about making a difference. It can be about always striving to do better. That’s what it can be and what it should be.”

 

But of course, the day after Speaker Ryan, although he didn’t actually use the word “endorse” in his support of the nominee, he did say that he would be voting for the presumptive nominee.  How sad.

 

Now that Mr. Ryan has officially said he would vote for the GOP nominee, Ryan is having to admit that he will be supporting a man whose “solutions” include banning Muslims from entering the country.  A man who casts aspersions on Federal judges because of their ethnicity.  A man who mocks people with disabilities, who lies repeatedly, and a president who would muzzle the free press.

 

Each one of these issues would normally disqualifying anyone who says they believe in conducting the nation’s politics in a constructive, reasonable manner.   This is instead the obvious mark of an individual that has a short-term win at the ballot box in mind.

 

The reality is that Mr. Trump doesn’t really believe much in anything.

 

Trump has convictions against the idea of free trade, in US leadership abroad, he believes in dividing the nation on religion and ethnicity.  All of these beliefs are directly the opposite of the beliefs of Speaker Ryan and for what America stands.

 

Since the nominee has gained his new position without the help of Speaker Ryan, Mr. Trump certainly is not required to feel that he is bound by any assurances from Mr. Ryan.

 

Following Mr. Ryan’s so-called “endorsement” of Trump, some are insisting that the speaker had little choice but to keep supporting the nominee.

 

But this is totally false.   In politics, “If you’re not a part of the solution, you’re a part of the problem,’” Mr. Ryan said that back in March. 

 

This comment from Speaker Ryan is very correct in his current situation. 

 

But where does a comment like this put the House Speaker in this current position with the nominee?  Is he part of the solution, or part of the problem?

 

We all know the answer to that one.

 

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