PAUL RYAN --FOR IT IS HE

 

Last Thursday at the Al Smith dinner in New York, PAUL RYAN "Leader" of the  Publican majority in the US House of representatives joked about Der Fuhrer Trumpf

                                             

• Enough with the applause," Paul Ryan told the audience "You sound like the Cabinet when Donald Trump walks into the room."
• “I want to put your mind at ease. You can relax about my remarks. I know last year that Donald Trump offended some people. I know his comments, according to critics, went too far. Some said it was unbecoming of a public figure and they said that his comments were offensive. Well, thank God he’s learned his lesson.”
• “Cardinal Dolan gave a benediction at President Trump’s inaugural,” said the Wisconsin Republican “There was just this one kind of awkward moment when the Cardinal talked about the infallible, enlightened Supreme Being. The president stood up and took a bow.”
• "Every morning, I wake up in my office and I scroll through Twitter to see which tweets I will have to pretend I didn't see later on,"
• "Every afternoon, former Speaker John Boehner calls me up, not to give advice, just to laugh."
• "I don't think I've ever seen this many New York liberals, this many Wall Street CEOs, in one room since my last visit to the White House,"
• "The truth is, the press absolutely misunderstands and never records the big accomplishments of the White House ... Look at all the new jobs the president has created just among the White House staff."
•  "I have learned how to handle insults. Steve Bannon said I was born in a petri dish at the Heritage Foundation. This is amazing — no one knew Steve believed in science
• “I really have learned so much. I’ve learned that in Catholicism, you are guilty until proven less guilty.
• “I’ve leaned that God is always listening, as is Vladimir Putin.”
• "I know why Chuck [Schumer] has been so hard on President Trump. It's not ideological. Chuck is just mad he lost his top donor."
• Speaking about this year's host, the actress Patricia Heaton, Ryan described her as a "Hollywood Republican."  "That is an oxymoron," Ryan said. "Which clearly was the word Rex Tillerson was searching for."
• Ryan anticipated Trump’s Twitter response to his dinner remarks would be.

“The president will tweet, ‘300,000 at Al Smith dinner cheer mention of my name,’” Ryan said while mimicking typing into a phone.

Now it is no secret that Der Fuhrer has no sense of humour about himself.
Nor does he take kindly to criticism of any kind.
We also know that Ryan has been supine in the face of repeated criticism and insults from Trumpff.
Ryan has also been very careful not to offend the Bannon loonies--just in case.
There has been no evidence of the kind of back bone shown in this speech.

                                                                So what gives ?

1. This is a sincere statement of Ryan's feelings.
2. The Lord rejoices in each sinner who repents.
3. It was the right thing to do.
4. Ryan has no personal ambition and wants what is best for the country.
5. Mitch McConnel promised to do the same thing on Friday.
6. He was overwhelmed with respect for the independance  of Senators. Corker,McCain,Murkowski and Susan Collins.
7. He thought he had signed up for a joint kamakazi pact with Senators McConnel and Lindsey Graham but they like being Senators regardless of Trumpski.
8. Putin has turned on Der Fuhrer Trumpff and Ryan is auditioning for Moscow's gold.

                                                                         OR

1. He has seen private polling showing a collapse in Trumpski support amongst likely Publican voters in the  New Jersey & Virginia Governor's races in two weeks.
2. He knows that  no matter what ,Trumpski and Torquemada will demean him in the run up to the Pressy Primaries in 2019 campaign and is positioning to run as the "sane" Publican ---you never know there may be a market for that.
3. He fears that Ohio Governor Kasich may lock up the non crazy right before 2019.
4. His donors told him to.

                                                            YOU CHOOSE



By the way if anybody wants to reprise the King's blog on last year’s Al Smith Dinner;scroll down to
                                                      "Decoultage"  on 24 October 2016.