• Menu
  • Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Before Header

  • About Us
  • Lexicon
  • Contact Us
  • Our Store
  • ↑
  • ↓

Balloon Juice

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

Shelter in place is one thing. shelter in pants is quite another.

All this crying. this is why i don’t click on stuff.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

The willow is too close to the house.

Four legs? good! two legs? we’re not so sure…

I did not have this on my fuck 2020 bingo card.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

We have all the best words.

What fresh hell is this?

The math demands it!

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

Too inconsequential to be sued

A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Naturally gregarious and alpha

I can’t take this shit today. I just can’t.

How does anyone do Gilligan’s Island as trump world and not cast Jared as Gilligan?

An almost top 10,000 blog!

Mobile Menu

  • Look Forward & Back
  • Balloon Juice 2021 Pet Calendar
  • Site Feedback
  • All 2020 Fundraising
  • I Voted!
  • Take Action: Things We Can Do
  • Team Claire, and Family
  • Submit Photos to On the Road
  • BJ PayPal Donations
  • Politics
  • On The Road
  • Open Threads
  • Topics
  • Nature & Respite
  • Information As Power
  • COVID-19 Coronavirus
  • Authors
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Lexicon
  • Our Store
  • Politics
  • Open Threads
  • Garden Chats
  • On The Road
  • Nature & Respite
  • Look Forward & Back
You are here: Home / Archives for Politics / Politicans / Ryan Lyin' Weasel

Ryan Lyin' Weasel

Repub Stupidity Open Thread: ‘Policy Wonk’ Paul Ryan Exposed As Spineless Two-Bit Fraud

by Anne Laurie|  January 25, 201912:36 am| 17 Comments

This post is in: C.R.E.A.M., Hail to the Hairpiece, Open Threads, Repubs in Disarray!, Ryan Lyin' Weasel, Assholes, Ever Get The Feeling You've Been Cheated?

When historians evaluate this episode, I really hope that Paul Ryan’s culpability is considered in all its glory. 1/ https://t.co/0flr4blYo7

— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) January 24, 2019

Everything Trump Touches Dies — including the Zombie-Eyed Granny Starver’s totally undeserved reputation as a Bold Thinker with Leadership Credentials:

I sort of feel like more people should be blaming congressional Republicans here. They’re the ones who could stop this. https://t.co/PPOxUdX1AR

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) January 24, 2019

At this point, Trump intercedes and asks Ryan for the House GOP to reject the bill. Ryan eventually agrees. 3/

— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) January 24, 2019

Imagine the counterfactual of Ryan, in his last days in power, deciding instead to resist Trump’s entreaties to support a hardline immigration plan that Ryan himself did not really support. 4/

— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) January 24, 2019

All of this is to point out that Ryan could have ended his tenure a different way, but instead acted the way he’d acted for the previous two years — as a supplicant for Donald Trump. https://t.co/cxxSvH33Pt

— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) January 24, 2019

I wonder if Paul Ryan is watching Pelosi and feeling very, very, very professionally jealous.

— Andrew Gatto (@AndrewGatto) January 23, 2019

Repub Stupidity Open Thread: ‘Policy Wonk’ Paul Ryan Exposed As Spineless Two-Bit FraudPost + Comments (17)

Zombie-Eyed Granny Starver Open Thread: Requiem for A World-Class Fraud

by Anne Laurie|  November 30, 20184:57 am| 45 Comments

This post is in: C.R.E.A.M., Nature & Respite, Open Threads, Republican Venality, Ryan Lyin' Weasel, Assholes, Our Awesome Meritocracy

Let's pour one out for Paul Ryan, the Biggest. Fake. Ever. https://t.co/yDiYiD3PU7 pic.twitter.com/NynFyE3SWT

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) November 29, 2018

Almost titled this “Respite from A WCF”, because we know he’ll be back on the Very Serious Media no later than Jan. 6 2019 (even sooner, if Trump completely decompensates and/or flees the country before then), making bank to represent whichever batch of oligarchs and kakistocrats offers him a dirty dollar.

But in this happy moment, let us remember the True Paul Ryan: lifelong suckler upon the gubmint teat, devout Ayn Rand fanboi, personage who stood out for unlikeability even in a party figureheaded by Donald Trump and frontlined by such specimens as Ted Cruz, Tom Cotton, and Stephen Miller…

Pour one out for Paul Ryan, who leaves office without accomplishing his lifelong goal of killing every poor person in America pic.twitter.com/Juqma4aQak

— Jess Dweck (@TheDweck) November 29, 2018

A special panel dreamed up by Speaker Paul Ryan to end the constant cycle of government shutdowns crashed and burned on Thursday.

The special panel tasked with recommending budget fixes overwhelmingly rejected its own set of proposals, even after lawmakers admitted the package included only modest changes to the way Congress approves budgets and funds the government…

Over several months, the leadership-appointed panel swatted down the most ambitious ideas for overhauling the budget process. The final text of the agreement contained changes like requiring Congress to pass a budget every two years, instead of annually. It also would have required a “fiscal state of the nation” report each year.

Sweeping proposals to “de-weaponize” the debt ceiling, tighten spending limits and disband Congress’ budget committees were all voted down or withdrawn…

He’s going out as he came in, attempting to delegitimize votes along strictly partisan lines…

Hey Paul Ryan: In California, we don't arbitrarily stop counting votes.

You raised taxes on millions of Californians, sabotaged health care & hated on immigrants. What did you think was going to happen? Don't blame CA voters, blame yourself.

Have a nice retirement @SpeakerRyan https://t.co/G9u61YUEvv

— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) November 29, 2018

… Gee, ZEGS, let’s try to parcel this out, shall we? You fronted for an administration* that was xenophobic to the point of ripping families apart, apparently for sport, and for taking a brutally hard line on all immigrants, legal and otherwise. A somewhat gentler version of that was enough to end Pete Wilson’s political career in California 20 years ago. And Wilson was reasonably popular at the time and not a maniac…

Remember when people thought this guy was smart?

show full post on front page

Who indeed could have predicted that immigration restrictionism and a tax cut that punished wealthy people in blue states would hurt in [checks notes] Fresno and SoCal. https://t.co/rhqFr642Bv

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) November 29, 2018

Jon Chait, at NYMag, “Paul Ryan Departing Washington in a Blaze of Fraudulence“:

In a valedictory interview with the Washington Post, House Speaker Paul Ryan depicted himself, and was in turn depicted by his hosts, as he has always chosen to be seen: a wonk-statesman, a little too good and pure for the ugly world of politics, who pointed the way toward a brighter and more responsible future and of whom it could be said, at the very worst, failed only to achieve the ideals for which he strived…

Nobody present was so impolite as to point out that Ryan has devoted his career to passing policies that would increase the national debt. Under the Bush administration, he supported every one of the debt-financed measures that turned the surplus the administration inherited into the trillion-dollar annual deficit it bequeathed its successor: tax cuts, a Medicare prescription-drug benefit, wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and a large security buildup, all financed by debt. Indeed, Ryan distinguished himself from his party by urging the administration to support even larger, costlier, and more debt-laden versions of the tax cuts and Social Security privatization schemes than it was willing to endorse. Ryan’s primary complaint with Bush was that he was too fiscally responsible.

Under the Obama administration, Ryan opposed the deficit-reducing health-care reform that has led to falling health-care inflation, and foiled efforts by President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner to craft a bipartisan deal to reduce the debt. Once he was able to enjoy a Republican president who would sign his bills, Ryan passed a huge debt-financed tax cut…

“I think history is going to be very good to this [Republican] majority,” he proclaimed. Only if historians are as gullible as the news media.

He made both worse. He blocked House votes on bipartisan solutions to address both issues. Our skyrocketing debt and broken immigration system aren't Paul Ryan's "regrets:" they are his handiwork. https://t.co/TGlahuQGfA

— Ronald Klain (@RonaldKlain) November 29, 2018

.@SpeakerRyan exploded the debt by giving tax cuts to the super wealthy. Always remember his crimes.

— phx-flo (@phxfloaz) November 29, 2018

I’d like to petition twitter that once he leaves office @SpeakerRyan have his twitter account changed to @somefecklessdouchebagnamedPaul https://t.co/ax6xXDjWPU

— Cake or Death (@Johngcole) November 30, 2018

Zombie-Eyed Granny Starver Open Thread: Requiem for A World-Class FraudPost + Comments (45)

Friday Evening Open Thread: Thoughts & Prayers

by Anne Laurie|  July 6, 20185:56 pm| 294 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Republican Venality, Ryan Lyin' Weasel, Vagina Outrage, Assholes, Clown car

"hey, do you know that today is #InternationalKissingDay?"

"i do, Alan, and you can still fuck off" pic.twitter.com/fbi0Z30CM3

— Paul Bronks (@BoringEnormous) July 6, 2018

Remember how the House + Senate passed separate bills to crack down on sexual harassment in their ranks?

It's been crickets since then. Neither bill has moved. No conference committee.

Paul Ryan's shop says "talks have been happening" but no news.

— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) July 6, 2018

The last action on this was in late May, when the Senate finally passed a bill months after the House. Civil rights groups promptly said that bill was garbage. https://t.co/HKhIaK1LmI

— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) July 6, 2018


 
Paulie don’t care, he’s out the door come January if not sooner…

WaPo Poll: Dems lead by 12(!) points in battleground districts https://t.co/ebHFPYcNvo

— Jonathan Singer (@jonathanhsinger) July 6, 2018

Friday Evening Open Thread: Thoughts & PrayersPost + Comments (294)

International Disgrace Open Thread: Happy Fathers’ Day, Repubs!

by Anne Laurie|  June 17, 201810:49 am| 99 Comments

This post is in: Don't Mourn, Organize, Immigration, Open Threads, Republican Venality, Ryan Lyin' Weasel

Spoke to Sessions today. Not encouraging. Now I’m headed back to the border… and this time I’m bringing friends. Follow along on Sunday for a #FathersDayOfAction w/@ChrisVanHollen, @RepFilemonVela, @PeterWelch, @davidcicilline, @repmarkpocan & @RepGonzalez. #KeepFamiliesTogether

— Senator Jeff Merkley (@SenJeffMerkley) June 14, 2018

So thankful to @SarahCHaight for this most timely #fathersday2018 gift idea. At such a critical time, this local, credible TX immigration law org combines assistance & advocacy. Forget golf towels or BBQ tools, give here in your dad’s name. https://t.co/pzCdApEcJr

— Tracy Sefl (@tracysefl) June 15, 2018

Posts like this one are NOT tone deaf.

They hit exactly the note Republicans are aiming for…

“OUR children are the only ones that matter. Those ‘others’ aren’t important enough to worry about.” https://t.co/HYhsnmetfh

— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) June 16, 2018

International Disgrace Open Thread: Happy Fathers’ Day, Repubs!Post + Comments (99)

Open Thread: Invertebrate Paul Ryan Indicates A Shift in the Political Tide

by Anne Laurie|  June 6, 20186:43 pm| 162 Comments

This post is in: Dolt 45, Election 2018, Open Threads, Republican Venality, Russiagate, Ryan Lyin' Weasel, Assholes

Breaking News: Paul Ryan dismissed President Trump’s charge of a spy in his campaign and warned against his pardoning himself: “No one is above the law” https://t.co/GlRE5L6PoO

— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 6, 2018

Paul Ryan splits with Trump, says ‘no evidence’ FBI spied on president’s campaign, via @karoun @mikedebonis https://t.co/KicdSjZnIw

— John Wagner (@WPJohnWagner) June 6, 2018

“We don’t talk about committee business,” Nunes told me when I tried to ask him about this. He spoke this weekend on Fox about Gowdy remarks. https://t.co/DEH8EDajZ0

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) June 6, 2018


 
Cynics point out that Paulie No-Balls waited until well after Trump’s bullshite ‘spygate’ fantasies had become settled wisdom among the Deplorable Base, but I think any sign of Ryan developing an allergy to Republican lies has to be a positive for truth, justice, and the American way:

… Ryan (R-Wis.) described as “accurate” an initial assessment offered by week by Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), chairman of the House Oversight Committee, who told Fox News that “the FBI did exactly what my fellow citizens would want them to do” in investigating information alleging certain Trump campaign advisers had suspicious ties to Russia…

Ryan was careful Wednesday not to disparage all of Nunes’s complaints with the Justice Department, a list of grievances that includes several unfulfilled demands for documents unrelated to the spying accusations. Democrats maintain Nunes is determined to undermine the law enforcement agencies and, by extension, the foundations of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation into whether Trump’s campaign coordinated with Russia to influence the election’s outcome.

Ryan’s announcement appeared to surprise some fellow Republicans pushing for release of that information. Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), who has floated the possibility of impeaching Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein, who oversees Mueller’s probe, declined to comment on Ryan’s take until after he had spoken directly with the speaker…

“We don’t talk about committee business,” Nunes told me when I tried to ask him about this. He spoke this weekend on Fox about Gowdy remarks. https://t.co/DEH8EDajZ0

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) June 6, 2018


 
And speaking of organisms supremely sensitive to shifts in the prevailing ‘wisdom’…

I am literally dead now. Kellyanne Conway just called Trump "the Commander of Cheese" pic.twitter.com/zM9UqO0dnt

— Tommy Christopher (@tommyxtopher) June 6, 2018

Commander of Cheese pic.twitter.com/nsmjhcmULx

— Schooley (@Rschooley) June 6, 2018

Open Thread: Invertebrate Paul Ryan Indicates A Shift in the Political TidePost + Comments (162)

Lyin’ Ryan Is the Fig Leaf for Trump’s Racist Immigration Agenda

by Betty Cracker|  May 11, 201812:12 pm| 191 Comments

This post is in: Immigration, Open Threads, Republican Stupidity, Ryan Lyin' Weasel, Assholes, General Stupidity

One of the few amusements the Trump Error affords is reading accounts of awful people getting dressed down by an even more awful person. From Greg Sargent at The Post:

The New York Times reports that Trump erupted in a rage at Homeland Security secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and other Cabinet members over the alleged failure to make “progress towards sealing the border.” According to the Times, Trump also raged about the “continued failure of his administration to find a way to build a wall along the southern border.”

The Post adds more reporting, noting that Trump’s “blowup lasted more than 30 minutes.” His face “reddened” as he railed that Nielsen must “close down” the border and shouted: “We need to shut it down. We’re closed.”

Other outlets reported that Nielsen, who tried to explain the complexity of the border situation but was shouted down, “almost resigned” over Trump’s tirade, composing but not handing in a resignation letter.

Gary Cohn allegedly wrote but didn’t submit a resignation letter after Trump defended Nazis in Charlottesville. I guess the unsubmitted resignation letter is the cabinet/adviser version of “Ivanka privately opposes.”

In The Post, Sargent points out Paul Ryan’s towering hypocrisy on the immigration issue:

Vulnerable Republicans in the House are pushing a discharge petition that would force a vote on immigration bills, including two measures that would grant the dreamers legal status, one of them packaged with fortifications to border security. Seventeen Republicans have signed the petition, meaning that if organizers can get eight more, it would pass, since Dems will support it — forcing a full House vote on whether the dreamers will be protected or remain in limbo.

Ryan is trying to stop this from happening. He justifies this by claiming that there’s no sense in voting on measures protecting the dreamers that Trump would veto. As Ryan put it: “We actually would like to solve this problem, and that is why I think it’s important for us to come up with a solution that the president can support.”

But this is utter nonsense, because there isn’t any deal that Trump is willing to support that can pass Congress… Ryan is trying to prevent a vote to protect the dreamers precisely because such a measure could pass the House… A deal protecting the dreamers in exchange for border security would probably pass the House by a comfortable margin, and it might pass the Senate — after all, passage in the House would bring tremendous pressure on moderate Republican senators — especially if the White House didn’t actively lobby against it.

But Trump will not accept any deal to protect the dreamers, even though it could very likely pass both chambers, unless it also contains deep cuts to legal immigration. So if the House passed it, the White House would lobby the Senate against it, and if that failed, Trump would then have to veto it. Either of those would look horrible, because after House passage, suddenly protections for the dreamers would appear in reach. This is the spectacle that Ryan is trying to avert — all to protect Trump from having his true priorities revealed in all their ugly glory.

Ryan no longer has to worry about reelection or hanging onto the speaker’s gavel, but he’s willing to hold a fig leaf over Trump’s ugly bits. Why? Because the Republican Party hopes to stock the courts with more fanatics, enable corporations to pollute and despoil without regulatory oversight and slash programs and policies that benefit the vulnerable, and while Trump is a big, fat, embarrassing, racist baby-man, he’ll happily sign that shit if they call it a “win” for him.

Oh well. At least we won’t be subjected to paeans about Ryan’s wonkishness, fiscal rectitude and principled conservatism much longer since he’s gonna cut and run after this term expires. That day can’t come soon enough.

Lyin’ Ryan Is the Fig Leaf for Trump’s Racist Immigration AgendaPost + Comments (191)

Repub Venality Open Thread: Paul Ryan, Within the Limits of the Law

by Anne Laurie|  May 10, 20186:19 pm| 104 Comments

This post is in: C.R.E.A.M., Open Threads, Republican Venality, Ryan Lyin' Weasel, All Too Normal, Fucked-up-edness

Paul Ryan—who, as an elected federal official, is barred from soliciting donations over $2.7k—flew to Las Vegas, told GOP donor Sheldon Adelson 2018 midterms are "crucial" then left the room while a lobbyist secured a $30M super PAC donation from Adelson https://t.co/pGcStZxCqr pic.twitter.com/cJBbS8ivyu

— Anna Massoglia (@annalecta) May 10, 2018

If there’s any doubt as to why Trump figured his bagman could practically plaster “THIS SPACE FOR RENT” signs on the Oval Office, here’s a Politico story — “Sheldon Adelson kicks in $30M to stop Democratic House takeover”:

… The long-sought donation was sealed last week when, according to two senior Republicans, House Speaker Paul Ryan flew to Las Vegas to meet with the billionaire at his Venetian Hotel. Also at the meeting with Adelson was his wife, Miriam; Norm Coleman, the former Minnesota senator who chairs the Republican Jewish Coalition; Corry Bliss, who oversees the super PAC; and Jake Kastan, Ryan’s No. 2 political aide. They laid out a case to Adelson about how crucial it is to protect the House.

As a federally elected official, Ryan is not permitted to solicit seven-figure political donations. When Ryan (R-Wis.) left the room, Coleman made the ask and secured the $30 million contribution…

Adelson’s donation comes at a perilous moment for House Republicans, who are facing growing headwinds as they try to save their majority. With dozens of incumbents being outraised by emboldened Democratic challengers, desperate party officials have been hoping that Adelson — the party’s most prominent benefactor — would give more than he traditionally does, and earlier in the election cycle.

Adelson came through by giving now, as opposed to waiting until late summer or the fall.

The $30 million contribution is three times as much as Adelson gave to [the Congressional Leadership Fund] in 2016. And the cash comes much earlier in the cycle: In 2016, Adelson gave CLF $10 million in August, as the campaign headed into the homestretch…

Accepting a “love offering” is not illegal if you’re careful to be out of the room when the check gets passed.

Donald Trump is not some kind of malignant oddity that took over the formerly innocent Republican Party. Donald Trump is just the latest refinement on the GOP standard.

Repub Venality Open Thread: Paul Ryan, Within the Limits of the LawPost + Comments (104)

  • Go to page 1
  • Go to page 2
  • Go to page 3
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Go to page 15
  • Go to Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Do Something!

Call Your Senators & Representatives
Directory of US Senators
Directory of US Representatives

Vaccine Venting (latest)
Vaccine Venting (all)

I Got the Shot (latest thread)
I Got the Shot! (all)

Take Your Shot – Explain the %

🎈Ways to Support Our Site

Become a Balloon Juice Patreon
Donate with Venmo, Zelle or PayPal
Shop Amazon via this link to support Balloon Juice ⬇  

Recent Comments

  • germy on Saturday Morning Open Thread: You *LOVE* To See It (Apr 17, 2021 @ 8:15am)
  • BretH on Saturday Morning Open Thread: You *LOVE* To See It (Apr 17, 2021 @ 8:14am)
  • WereBear on Saturday Morning Open Thread: You *LOVE* To See It (Apr 17, 2021 @ 8:08am)
  • Baud on Saturday Morning Open Thread: You *LOVE* To See It (Apr 17, 2021 @ 8:05am)
  • Wag on Late Night Open Thread: I Got Nothing… (Apr 17, 2021 @ 8:02am)

Team Claire, and Family

Claire Updates
Claire is Home!

Balloon Juice Posts

View by Topic
View by Author
View by Month & Year

Featuring

John Cole
Silverman on Security
COVID-19 Coronavirus
Medium Cool with BGinCHI
Furry Friends

Calling All Jackals

Site Feedback
Submit Photos to On the Road
Nominate a Rotating Tag
Meetups: Proof of Life
2021 Pets of Balloon Juice Calendar

Culture: Books, Film, TV, Music, Games, Podcasts

Noir: Favorites in Film, Books, TV
Book Recommendations & Indy Recs
Mystery Recommendations
Netflix Favorites
Amazon Prime Favorites
Netflix Suggestions in July
Longmire & Netflix Suggestions

Twitter

John Cole’s Twitter

[custom-twitter-feeds]

Site Footer

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

  • Facebook
  • RSS
  • Twitter
  • Comment Policy
  • Our Authors
  • Blogroll
  • Our Artists
  • Privacy Policy

Copyright © 2021 Dev Balloon Juice · All Rights Reserved · Powered by BizBudding Inc