I never liked Paul Ryan. I don’t trust him. This Ayn Randian sycophant is, in my opinion, treading very close to a precipice, or perhaps more accurately, has jumped from the frying pan to the fire. As John Nichols, author of this piece writes, “Ryan abandoned the solemn oath he swore “to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic…” “, and that includes Trump!
From The Nation — Asked at the close of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 if the delegates had created a republic or a monarchy, Benjamin Franklin is reported to have replied, “A republic, if you can keep it.” [emphasis mine]
Paul Ryan has abandoned the effort to keep it. [emphasis mine]
At the heart of the US Constitution is a system of checks and balances that was established primarily to guard against the concentration of power in an executive branch that might tend toward royalism. The founders of the American experiment wanted to prevent a repeat of the monarchical abuses of King George III, against which their constituents had risen in revolution.
“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny,” warned James Madison, the essential author of the Constitution, who explained, “The great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department, consists in giving to those who administer each department the necessary constitutional means and personal motives to resist encroachments of the others.”
What Madison asserted in the late 1780s remains true to this day: For the system of checks and balances to function, the leaders charged with responsibility for the various branches of government must zealously defend the authority of the branches they lead. They cannot allow one branch to become the extension of another.
I hope you will continue reading this excellent article which sheds some historical light on the Republican shenanigans orchestrated by Ryan and Nunes. I use the word ‘shenanigans’ which has a less serious sound. In truth, Ryan’s actions, or the lack of appropriate actions, is cause for great concern. They set Trump up as the new king. King George III would be so proud to know that the US was becoming a monarchy.
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Thank you for bringing this excellent article to our attention and for your own excellent analysis, Lynn.
It is clear that both Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan are in cahoots to be king makers, although for very different reasons and with different final results in mind. While McConnell seems to be driven mainly by giving the GOP all the power they could muster to do their masters bidding and with him presiding over that bubble of power, himself not king or president but having just as much power, Paul Ryan’s motivations are less clear.
By making an uncontrollable Drumpf king by allowing the House of Representatives to turn into just an extension of the White House he doesn’t seem to gain much power for himself nor for his party. Unless he thinks he can control Drumpf and make him follow his advise, which would be terribly foolish, even for him. Does he see it as a step up to the presidency, which by then will be a kingship? Or is it all just for the money? We know that the Kochs have payed him half a million when he delivered them their tax cuts. Who knows how much they are willing to pay to have a doddering king puppet on the throne while they are the ones who in fact rule the country? And then there are the Russians of course.
Whatever Ryan’s reasons, he’s playing with fire; some would call it treason. He isn’t honoring is oath and is bringing democracy to its knees and destroying the constitution. This will not end well, neither for Ryan nor for America.
Ryan and the rest of the Fascists masquerading as Republicans never had any desire to keep the Republic, nor any intention of doing so. That is not meant to disparage people like Lincoln and Eisenhower (and so many more) who actually had principles which can be described as promoting the Republic, and accordingly called “Republican” without violence to the language. They barely exist any more. A minuscule number of mouths may still express those principles, but virtually no actions.
I will never believe that Ryan had any intention for as long as one second of keeping the oath referenced by Nichols.
A most excellent article, with which I fully agree.
Kudos for sharing it!
Never liked him, he’s all about what’s good for him. He doesn’t care. He needs to step down, and the damage is on him, and his cronies. To me, he’s a traitor just like the others.
“Make no mistake: Paul Ryan has zero interest in accountability, transparency, or cleaning up problems with law-enforcement agencies and the investigative process. He has shown no interest in legitimate and necessary oversight of intelligence agencies. He has never been identified with the cause of civil liberties or with the defense of privacy rights.”
Thanks, Lynn for post.
Ryan is an agent of Charles Koch, a believer in the Koch travesty called the “Tea Party,” or, now, the “FreedomCaucus.” this all goes back to John C. Calhoun, and the elitist, racist pre-Civil War south. These folks want only to have the LIBERTY to take away everyone else’s liberty, period.