{"id":8289,"date":"2018-04-12T10:58:06","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T15:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/?p=8289"},"modified":"2018-08-20T15:52:22","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T20:52:22","slug":"paul-ryan-retire-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/paul-ryan-retire-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Fare thee well, Paul Ryan"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s been said that all good things must come to an end, but it would appear that\u2019s also true for terrible, horrible, no good, very bad things<\/a> as well. I say this because news broke yesterday that My Man Paul Ryan is hanging up his human suit and retiring from Congress next January.<\/p>\n

Speaking to reporters on Wednesday morning<\/a>, the U.S. Representative for Wisconsin\u2019s 1st congressional district since 1999 and House Speaker since 2015 said, \u201cI like to think I\u2019ve done my part, my little part in history to set us on a better course.\u201d<\/p>\n

A better course, indeed! After all, it\u2019s not like he rammed through wildly unpopular tax cuts that amount to little more than a giant corporate handout. My Man Paul would never<\/em> do anything like that, no sir. And even if he did, they certainly wouldn\u2019t permanently drive the federal deficit up<\/a> to a gargantuan one trillion dollars.<\/p>\n

But in all seriousness, he did, and they did. In fact, it\u2019s likely these tax cuts will come to define My Man Paul\u2019s legacy, and that\u2019s totally cool with him. In his nearly 20 years on Capitol Hill, Ryan has postured himself as a financial policy wonk, low-key promoting Ayn Rand-ian wealth fetishism under the guise of fiscal responsibility. Because what\u2019s more fiscally responsible than siphoning health care funding<\/a> away from the elderly?<\/p>\n

And while we\u2019re talking about My Man Paul\u2019s legacy, we can\u2019t forget to mention the complete spinelessness he\u2019s shown in the past year-plus by not standing up to a transparently corrupt White House. There have been dozens of times when Ryan could have used his position to stand up to President Stable Genius when Trump did any of the literally dozens of embarrassing, stupid, vile things he\u2019s done since the primaries.<\/p>\n

Instead, My Man Paul was content to just keep his mouth shut to get those sweet, sweet tax cuts. And that\u2019s who he\u2019s always been \u2014 a guy with all the smarts, influence and occasional bouts of decency to actually make a significant change in the world but who instead just sits on it and panders to the campaign donors. No wonder this dude loves <\/a>Atlas Shrugged<\/em><\/a> (which, for the record, is a trash book) so much.<\/p>\n

In his remarks to reporters, Ryan said that he didn\u2019t want his kids to only see him as \u201conly a weekend dad<\/a>,\u201d which is kind of heartbreaking. But it\u2019s also a fitting elegy for My Man Paul, who\u2019s kind of like America\u2019s weekend dad \u2014 there if he feels like it, but never when we need him to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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