Before House Speaker Paul Ryan’s “Address on the State of American Politics” Wednesday, an aide went to the microphone to instruct the crowd.
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“When passions flare, ugliness is sometimes inevitable”. “We don’t have to accept it, and we can not enable it”, Ryan said.
In a speech on Capitol Hill this week, the Wisconsin Republican said that in the 1990s, he and other policymakers over compensated in their tough-on-crime approach to fighting the war on drugs.
This blog noted yesterday that Trump supporters think it’s a big problem that whites are losing out to blacks and Latinos. There have been God knows how many votes to repeal or weaken the ACA in Paul Ryan’s House of Representatives over that six-year time period, but the number of legislative alternatives to Obamacare put forth by the GOP can be counted on zero fingers.
“All of us as leaders can hold ourselves to the highest standards of integrity and decency”, Ryan said. He ended up with the job anyway after John Boehner, R-Ohio, was pushed out by conservatives last fall and a leadership vacuum resulted.
There’s already a Facebook group that says it will protest the Trump rally – more than 780 people have said they’re going, as of Thursday afternoon. We nearly don’t have to mention the state of American political discourse, what with politicians comparing genital size during televised debates and appealing not to a better America, but scaring voters into supporting them.
Republican senators should interview Garland and have a hearing on his nomination, Moran said. And they’re continuing to float the 2012 GOP vice presidential nominee as a possible dark horse candidate in the event no one secures the requisite 1,237 delegates before the four-day Cleveland confab kicks off.
“We’ve got that backdrop of planning, and now we just adjust it for the particular candidate and what we think the challenges will be”, Moore said. “If we’re going to keep this attractive American experiment going we’re going to have to stay unified”. The speaker also has 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.
House Speaker Paul Ryan says it’s time for Congress to make redemption rather than punishment the centerpiece of the country’s criminal justice policy.
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Information for this article was contributed by Scott Bauer, Steve Peoples, Jonathan Lemire, Greg Moore, Todd Richmond, Ken Thomas, Erica Werner, Andrew Taylor and Alan Fram of The Associated; by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Martin of The New York Times; and by Ed O’Keefe of The Washington Post.
