"Reputation is the shadow. Character is the tree." -- Abraham Lincoln
Since coming to Washington in 1998,
House Speaker Paul Ryan has somehow gained a reputation among some as an intellectual conservative and a wonky policy genius. But in reality, he's an ineffective hack with no significant accomplishments. All he's done is push a bunch of goofy dogmatic ideas which have all gone nowhere -- from privatizing Social Security to replacing Medicare with private insurance vouchers to various cruel budget proposals to
his latest debacle, the failed American Health Care Act, which died a well-deserved death yesterday.
Ryan's reputation as the philosopher prince, the GOP's big thinker, is horseshit. He's a zombie-eyed granny killer, an ideologue and political extremist dedicated to serving the corporate class and the super-rich.
And his decision to advance those greedy goals by playing opportunistic kiss-ass with the horrific Donald Trump reveals his true character, or rather, his complete lack thereof.
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