With one vote for Trump I can vote against Ryan, Pelosi, Mitch, Harry, Boehner, Bill & Hillary, Obama, Mittens, Kerry and the Republican Elite. Who could pass that up?
House Speaker Paul Ryan on Wednesday decried ugliness and divisiveness in American politics, delivering a veiled but passionate rebuke to GOP front-runner Donald Trump and the nasty tone of the presidential race.
“When passions flare, ugliness is sometimes inevitable. But we shouldn’t accept ugliness as the norm,” Ryan told an invited audience of congressional interns on Capitol Hill.
“If someone has a bad idea, we tell them why our idea is better. We don’t insult them into agreeing with us,” he said.
“We don’t resort to scaring you, we dare to inspire you.”
The Wisconsin Republican never mentioned Trump’s name or that of any other candidate, Republican or Democratic. But his targets were clear in a sometimes frightful campaign season that’s featured insults, sucker punches and near-riots as often as substantive policy debates.
“We are slipping into being a divisive country,” he said. “If we’re going to keep this beautiful American experiment going we’re going to have to stay unified.”
Some of Ryan’s comments nearly echoed remarks last week from President Barack Obama, who voiced dismay at the violence and “vulgar and divisive rhetoric” of this presidential race, and issued a plea for civility.
Still, Democrats wasted no time in criticizing Ryan’s speech, noting that while remaining officially neutral in his party’s presidential primary, Ryan has repeatedly promised to back the eventual GOP nominee. The speaker has also avoided any outright denunciation of Trump even while criticizing several of the businessman’s more extreme positions, such as barring Muslims from entering the country.
“Speaker Ryan’s words will ring hollow until he backs them up with action and withdraws his support from Donald Trump,” said Adam Jentleson, spokesman for Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada.
Ryan’s outwardly neutral stance comes even as other GOP leaders have openly searched for ways to prevent Trump from clinching the nomination before or during the party’s July convention in Cleveland. Ryan, his party’s 2012 vice presidential nominee, has said he is not interested in becoming president and has dismissed growing talk of a contested convention that could turn into a free-for-all for the nomination.
Yet Ryan similarly claimed he never wanted to become speaker. He ended up with the job anyway after John Boehner, R-Ohio, was pushed out by conservatives last fall and a leadership vacuum resulted. As speaker of the House Ryan will have the job of chairing the GOP convention in July.
Ryan took the opportunity Wednesday to voice regrets about his own previous contributions to divisive political discourse. He said that in the past he’d referred to certain people as “takers,” but then thought more about how people could become mired in poverty and dependent on government help. “To label a whole group of Americans that way was wrong,” he said.
He also said he had become a late convert to the need for reforming the criminal justice system and pledged action on the House floor. “Redemption is a beautiful thing,” Ryan said. “We need to make redemption something that is valued in our culture and our society and in our laws.”
Ryan delivered his remarks as lawmakers left town for a two-week spring recess. He spoke in the lofty hearing room of the Ways and Means Committee, which he once chaired.
It was the latest occasion since Ryan became speaker last October that he has summoned his party to unity, and delivered lofty pledges that the House of Representatives will be the vehicle for producing a bold governing vision for the GOP.
Yet divisions within the party have blocked House Republicans from passing a budget for the upcoming fiscal year, an embarrassment for Ryan, and GOP leaders have struggled to come up with meaningful legislation to debate.
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March 23rd, 2016 at 3:19 pm
They are only 2% of the American population and yet look at all the joos in congress, the senate, the supreme court, presidential advisors, they own the media, they controll our banking system, they are behind the porn industry, they are behind the homosexual movement, they are behind all our wars,they are paying the black terrorist to attack Donald Trump, these people suck the life out of countries. How many millions have they killed and why would a sane people not kick them out of their country? They want your guns, all your money and your lives and controll our election process and they controll both political parties wake the flock up.
Duane March 23rd, 2016 at 6:00 pm
The truth in not politically correct speech and I agree!
Tucker March 24th, 2016 at 12:10 am
Mo Mo could not have said it better.
Good comment.
March 24th, 2016 at 7:41 am
I left out that they were in on 911, attacked the U.S.S Liberty, in on the killing of the three Kennedy’s, behind the killing of numerous American military and politicians, they are behind the illegal drug industry in the world, the selling of human organs, insurance fraud in this country, if you buy food you pay millions in a Kosher tax, I guess the seperation of church and stae only works for Christians and for you stupid zio-Christians they killed Christ and they hate Christmas but they like the money they get at Christmas time and they also control our voting systems. I could probably go on forever with listing their crimes but evidently the sheople are too worried about your TV shows.
Michael Garrison March 24th, 2016 at 10:53 am
Great article with a great point….
This may be a little off-topic, but the argument about the waterboarding and torturing of Muslim fighters, that were created by America and Israel, seems to take us into another lie. I feel that “they” keep saying torture to imply to the public
that “we treat them like enemies”, when the truth is just the opposite. Think about this fact……why do they even NEED to water-board for information…when it can be done with the truth serums that already exist?? Sodium Pentathol (?) is just one example of a truth serum that guarantees the information is real and most likely true, without the abuse, if there acr5ually IS any abuse. Look, these people are allowed to run through the countries of the world to rape, murder and steal (just what they were created to do), so why would we worry about them being terrorists?? Gitmo Bay is an Islamic “Officer Training School” and nothing else. And water-boarding is just another lie.
March 24th, 2016 at 11:43 am
Also they produce and import the date drug that is used to rape women, they deal in white slavery and prositution in the world, they do not want to stop crime in this country, just look at all the joo lawyers and judges getting rich off of crime and the building of new prisons which are a big profit maker for them, they rip off Medicare and Medicade, they are buy ing hospitals where more big profits exist for them, have you looked at your hospital bills lately, how about the trillions of government money that is missing, must be in a bank in israel. They think nothing of killing women or children. In fact they will napalm them.
March 24th, 2016 at 3:52 pm
Ever hear of the Russian mafia thats in this country? Guess what it’s really the jooish mafia, why does the media never say that? The government has cracked down on the Italian mafia, the black mafia and the Mexican mafia but never on the joo mafia? They government used the Italian mafia to help us in the second WW and against the KKK and then afterwards crapped on them. The joos wanted to be the top mafia dog in this country and they are, they don’t like competition in their crimes. israel treats wounded ISIS terrorist in israel hospitals and also buy’s oil from ISIS, funny that ISIS never attacks israel isn’t it?
March 25th, 2016 at 3:01 pm
When JFK was killed the joo Zapruder happened to be in the right spot to film JFK getting shot, talk about luck, it doesn’t end there he was paid millions for his film while all other people who had filmed it had their films taken away and never given back to them. Then a joo shyster Jack Ruby felt so sorry for the first family he killed Oswald before he was interrogated by the police. Imagine that these two joos happened to be in the right spot at the right time, wow what’s the odds for this happening? Then Sirhan Sirhan who was drugged out at the time was framed for killing Bobby Kennedy, there is just a little problem with this, none of his bullets hit RFK. The man and lady in a polka dot dress who ran away elated about RFK getting shot, I would bet they were jooish. The joos knew that if Bobby was elected the truth would come out and they were in big trouble. It doesn’t end there what about the dancing joos during 911, right spot and with cameras ready. Talk about luck and they are only 2% of the population.