To be fair, nobody likes Paul Ryan except Paul Ryan, Paul Ryan’s corporate donors, and the journos who liked to talk Paul Ryan up as a presidential candidate because he spent a lot of time looking stern and spouting slogans about balanced budgets, which is all you need to do to pass as a Very Serious policy guru in the US Republican party these days.
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Nobody liked Paul Ryan even in his hometown.
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Not even his mum mom?
Spicy
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Waste of time and money. No chance .
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She wasted all her political capital and her distinctiveness by embarrassingly kowtowing to Trump repeatedly after leaving his admin.
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I can only guess she’s hoping Trump drops off the perch before the election next year, and she can position herself as his successor.
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I think there is a few on her side of the political fence with the same thought process.
He is literally the
in the room.
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Even with Trump out of the picture she has cooked herself politically and will go nowhere imo
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Lets face it, the GOP faithful aren’t going to vote for a woman to be President. Their view is that women should be at home looking after all their babies.
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https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/3835803-the-cracks-in-the-gop-are-growing-into-gaping-holes/
The cracks in the GOP are growing into gaping holes
The Republican Party was once a traditionalist institution that stood for small government, low taxes and conservative social policies. But today’s GOP is a shell of its former self.
The GOP of 2023 is embroiled in chaos and beset by internal strife. Many members who have been elevated to senior positions within the party are not concerned with governing, only with advancing their political agenda and causing disruption for disruption’s sake.
This is not conjecture, rather, it is the view of a sizable share of the American electorate, including many voters who self-identify as Republicans, according to new polling conducted by Schoen Cooperman Research.
Registered voters nationwide believe that the Republican majority in the U.S. House is more focused on pursuing investigations of President Biden and the Democratic Party (49 percent) rather than on passing legislation to address major issues (35 percent). Notably, 4 in 10 Republican voters think that their own party is more focused on investigating Biden and Democrats (41 percent) than on advancing real reforms (47 percent).
There is also a sense among both national voters and Republican voters that the highest-ranking GOP official, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), is ineffective and beholden to the far-right.
Earlier this month, McCarthy was elected Speaker of the House in a pyrrhic victory after an embarrassing four-day-long fiasco and 15 rounds of voting. McCarthy struck a corrupt bargain with the far-right House Freedom Caucus that essentially gives these extremists veto authority over his speakership along with key leadership positions, rendering him essentially powerless.
As a result, only 1 in 5 (21 percent) Republican voters — and a slightly smaller share of the national electorate (16 percent) — believe McCarthy will be a “very effective” Speaker of the House.
Further, a majority of voters nationwide (53 percent) and a plurality of Republican voters (46 percent) agree that “Kevin McCarthy conceded too much ground to the conservative House Freedom Caucus in order to be elected as Speaker, leaving him with little actual authority and beholden to the far-right.” Remarkably, just one-quarter (27 percent) of Republican respondents in our poll disagreed with this statement.
When pressed further on their views of intraparty politics, GOP voters are relatively split on the question of whether McCarthy should’ve been elected speaker (40 percent) or if it should have been someone else (37 percent). Further, less than one-half (46 percent) of this group believes that the fight McCarthy underwent won’t impact his authority, while more than one-third (35 percent) say it indicates McCarthy doesn’t have the full support of his party and thus won’t be able to get things done.
Just weeks into his tenure, a clearly weakened McCarthy is already struggling to articulate — let alone advance — a Republican plan for raising the debt ceiling. This is one of the most pressing matters facing Congress, as the United States is months away from defaulting on its debt, which would trigger catastrophic consequences for the world economy.
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Nice people, those GOP folk.
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White supremacists and weapons fetishists have destroyed my homeland.
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Lucky you got out mate. It’s only going to get worse. My family is focused on an exit plan too.
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I was over there in Florida for 13 years. Loved my time there, but the gun issues and the crazies are off the charts.
Been back here since 2010. Where are you heading to @DonMania ?
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Most likely Europe. My wife and daughter both have EU passports.
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Someone should tell this morning’s ABC News and AM that.
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