Paul Ryan

Ryan's beard is different from Lindsey Graham's beard or Patrick McHenry's beardThe New Republic has commented on the fact Ryan hasn't shaved in a few days and has a scruffy look. They didn't mention that he has blood on his hands for facilitating the NRA's murderous agenda but wondered if "Ryan’s beard is a result of his relentless, sleep-in-the-office work ethic, or if it’s just an effort to reach out to younger voters with a newer, hipper image.

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Wisconsin Ayn Rand devotee Paul Ryan just started his new job as Speaker of the dysfunctional House Republicans. And he's already headed for a showdown with the White House. Remember how on his very first day in office President Obama signed an oder to shut down the torture prison at Guantánamo? Conservatives in Congress have been thwarting him ever since, most recently by passing a military budget that included language prohibiting the president from doing just that.

Paul Ryan just got big raise-- from the $174,000 a congressman makes to the highest pay anyone in Congress gets, $223,500 as Speaker. And a lot of free TV time. In fact, today Ryan was scheduled for ABC's This Week, CBS' Face the Nation, CNN's State of the Union, Fox's Fox News Sunday, and NBC's Meet The Press.

Inside the Republican conference, when the GOP had their secret vote to see who the party nominee would nominate for Speaker, 45 Republicans couldn't bring themselves to vote for Ryan, many of them crackpots he had cultivated for years by giving them fat checks from his personal ProsperityAction PAC, funded by the W

Yesterday it was Trey Gowdy-- South Carolina's walking advertisement for extreme botox malpractice-- who nominated Paul Ryan to be speaker. For those who have short memories, Michigan Democratic congressional candidate, Paul Clements, reminded his supporters that Ryan, more than anything else, represents "an extremist vision of American domestic policy. The Path to Prosperity outlined by his budget proposal seeks to do many things, like...

Paul Ryan-- of Ryan budget infamy-- is going to be Speaker. Don't listen to any of the Beltway-generated silly talk about him being "moderate" or "mainstream." The Freedom Caucus gentlemen don't like him because he's a grotesquely corrupt Establishment hack, not because he isn't right-wing enough. As chairman of the Budget Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee, Ryan has been raising bucketfuls of cash from Wall Street banksters and their K Street lobbyists.

In this morning's first post, we promised to explain how the Republican Party Establishment expects their new Speaker to protect them from the con men their own conservatism has created.

Finally, last night, Paul Ryan agreed to accept the post-Boehner Speakership.

Immature politicians have a tendency to view every problem through their own personal careerist agenda. And when those immature politicians are conservatives, you can add in a sense of victimization.