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madaboutharry

(40,212 posts)
Tue Dec 19, 2017, 02:59 PM Dec 2017

Paul Ryan is a snake oil salesman.

Paul Ryan is a con man and a liar. He is now standing up on the floor of the House of Representatives telling a wheelbarrow load of Ayn Rand lies. He is a disgrace. I don't know whether he actually believes what he is saying and figures he can fool enough people or whether he is out for his own self-enrichment.

It makes me so sad that a person like this holds such power in our country. I do hope that Wisconsin can produce a strong democrat to challenge him in 2018. Nothing would be better for this country than for Paul Ryan to lose re-election.

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Paul Ryan is a snake oil salesman. (Original Post) madaboutharry Dec 2017 OP
I think he's got a pretty good challenger, hasn't he? Vinca Dec 2017 #1
That's why he's going to leave. Greybnk48 Dec 2017 #5
... handmade34 Dec 2017 #2
lather, rinse, repeat... alterfurz Dec 2017 #8
I was driving home and darned near wrecked my car when I heard some of those lies. Frustratedlady Dec 2017 #3
History will give him BillyBobBrilliant Dec 2017 #4
He has been accurately described by commentators who know Enoki33 Dec 2017 #6
There is an easy way to know if he is lying... Joe941 Dec 2017 #7
his god is ayn rand, not jesus. pansypoo53219 Dec 2017 #9
He should be cause he's a snake. Lower than the low. shraby Dec 2017 #10

Vinca

(50,276 posts)
1. I think he's got a pretty good challenger, hasn't he?
Tue Dec 19, 2017, 03:01 PM
Dec 2017

My worst fear is Mueller lops off enough people in the line of succession that Ryan becomes POTUS.

Greybnk48

(10,168 posts)
5. That's why he's going to leave.
Tue Dec 19, 2017, 03:46 PM
Dec 2017

He will NOT win again in Wisconsin unless the SC upholds the gerrymander, which I cannot see how they would. He does not even carry his hometown of Janesville. He's loathed except by people like Charlie Sykes and the big money donors. A handful of pricks.

Frustratedlady

(16,254 posts)
3. I was driving home and darned near wrecked my car when I heard some of those lies.
Tue Dec 19, 2017, 03:31 PM
Dec 2017

What was he on? His voice was 2 octaves higher and he was talking so fast, I could hardly keep up. I only heard a few minutes of the speech, but his statement about how they were going to improve the environment by allowing drilling in Alaska was the capper. They all must have had special training on how to talk fast and talk over others trying to correct them like their spokeswomen are able to do. He's going to have a lot of practice after that fiasco of a speech. I had to physically push my jaw up to close my mouth when I got home.

Listen to the speech and count the lies. Your assignment for the day.

BillyBobBrilliant

(805 posts)
4. History will give him
Tue Dec 19, 2017, 03:46 PM
Dec 2017

his due. He just may get credit for destroying the GOP (with some help from MMc, and DJT, and JC, et al.).
[A guy can have dreams can't he?]

Enoki33

(1,587 posts)
6. He has been accurately described by commentators who know
Tue Dec 19, 2017, 03:46 PM
Dec 2017

him as the slickest fake intellectual walking around with a constant supporting briefcase, and the biggest liar in Congress. Randy Bryce hopefully will consign him to the trash bin. That would really upset the Kochs.

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