"'Speaker Ryan is speechifying on the deck of the Titanic, running a do-nothing Congress while supporting Donald Trump, a racist demagogue, for president ...'", said Harry Reid.

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COMMENTS: 
*  Well... Well... Well... It looks like Mr. Ryan is finally admitting that the Tea Gagger-- Faux News -- and Lush Rimjob environment of hate is counterproductive. EVERYONE has else already came to this conclusion years ago. There is a reason the GOP has lost the popular vote in 5 out of 6 of the last elections!
*  Greed and power are causing the GOP to commit suicide
    *  It's actually stupidity that's causing their problems. For example their candidates had to sign a pledge to support the nominee. Now the nominee looks like it's going to be Trump, their worse nightmare. Meantime they spend millions running negative ads against Trump and bad mouth him to no end. But in the end when Trump is the nominee they are going to support someone they think is bad for the country...I see that as being a bunch of hypocrites who put their politics before what they think is bad for our great country. How can anyone bad mouth a person then support him? It doesn't get more stupid than that.
*  Paul Ryan is one of the leaders in hate politics. He would take food stamps from hungry children. He has voted something like 60 times to overturn the affordable care act. He would cut his mothers Social Security yet he used it to go to college, The guy is the lowest form of politician and he gives a speech like this???
*  The GOP establishment has shown their true colors, it isn't Trump that is destroying the party it is them. They are not listening that the voters are fed up and are backing Trump (and yes it may be in angry voices) but that is the voters choice. The voters put these senators and congressmen in office and we are suppose to be their bosses, they have forgotten that and have their own agendas. Well they need to pack their bags and make plane reservations for home and I hope they enjoy living off their big fat pensions (it's one hell of alot more than most of us live on).
*  Ryan doesn't understand he is presiding over a mental institution. Until the psychotics are purged the downward spiral will continue. They are already in the gutter, thanks to Trump, and headed for the sewer.
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Paul Ryan Just Admitted One of the GOP’s Biggest Mistakes
By Martin Matishak, March 23, 2016

Paul Ryan on Wednesday used his bully pulpit as Speaker of the House to address a Republican Party that doesn’t exist today and likely won’t until January 2017 at the earliest.

Standing in front of five American flags in the House Ways and Means Committee room, the Wisconsin lawmaker gave his highly anticipated take on the “State of American Politics,” a nearly 1,900-word address that contained zero mentions of GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump.

Ryan explicitly refused to “name names” or take aim at anyone in either major political party, instead opting to outline a high-minded take on what our politics can be and to tut-tut both sides on the need for civility in the current hyper-partisan environment.

“Looking around at what’s taking place in politics today, it is easy to get disheartened,” he said (watch the full speech below). “Our political discourse—both the kind we see on TV and the kind we experience among each other—did not use to be this bad and it does not have to be this way. Now, a little skepticism is healthy. But when people distrust politics, they come to distrust institutions. They lose faith in their government, and the future too. We can acknowledge this. But we don’t have to accept it. And we cannot enable it either.”

Throughout his speech and the following Q and A session — with questions from Capitol Hill interns, not reporters — Ryan urged his congressional colleagues to return to some modicum of decorum, and he admitted his own past failures to live up to the standard he’s now looking to set:

“There was a time when I would talk about a difference between ‘makers’ and ‘takers’ in our country, referring to people who accepted government benefits. But as I spent more time listening, and really learning the root causes of poverty, I realized I was wrong. ‘Takers’ wasn’t how to refer to a single mom stuck in a poverty trap, just trying to take care of her family. Most people don't want to be dependent. And to label a whole group of Americans that way was wrong. I shouldn’t castigate a large group of Americans to make a point.”

But the 46-year-old Ryan’s call to make our politics “a battle of ideas, not insults” may be like whistling past the graveyard given the nonstop circus of vulgarity known as the Republican presidential primary.

The latest incident came Tuesday night when Trump went on Twitter threatening to “spill the beans” about the wife of presidential rival, Sen. Ted Cruz (TX). The former reality TV star fired off his tweet citing an ad from a super-PAC that showed an image of his own wife, Melania, posing nude during a magazine photoshoot.

Cruz has since emphasized he has nothing to do with the outside group, but the spat is just another example how crude the GOP primary, which once sported 17 contenders, has become, with brawls breaking out at Trump rallies across the country.

In that way, Ryan’s address, in which he looked very presidential, was an attempt to bypass the existing, unruly presidential lot, unlike his 2012 running mate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who issued a call to stop Trump a few weeks ago and has taken several jabs at the real estate mogul since.

Democrats couldn’t help but notice the omission.

"Speaker Ryan is speechifying on the deck of the Titanic, running a do-nothing Congress while supporting Donald Trump, a racist demagogue, for president,” Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said in a state. “Speaker Ryan's words will ring hollow until he backs them up with action and withdraws his support from Donald Trump."

Ryan has rebuked Trump, usually without mentioning his name, several times before, like when the billionaire called for a ban on allowing Muslims into the U.S. or the time he was slow to disavow his support from the Ku Klux Klan. But in not mentioning the GOP frontrunner by name, it’s unclear how much Ryan will be able to raise the bar.

It’s entirely possible that Ryan’s greatest impact on the 2016 race is yet to come. As speaker, he is slated to serve as chair of the Republican National Convention this summer and many have begun to expect there will be a floor fight for delegates to prevent Trump from getting the GOP nomination.

For now, though, all Ryan is willing to offer is optimistic bromides and thinly veiled references. “With so much at stake, the American people deserve a clear picture of what we believe,” he said. “Personalities come and go, but principles endure.”
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