During a press conference in Philadelphia on Thursday, Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan and GOP Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell were squirming like a couple of middle school teenagers caught spanking it in the boys room, and now trying to explain their actions to the principal.
In reality, this is Ryan and McConnell trying (and failing) to confidently come across like they know what they are talking about in reference to Donald Trump’s great wall. They both seem genuinely nervous, perhaps about what is happening in the country, and maybe just a little apprehensive that their master plan to use Trump — might end up backfiring on them and thus destroy their own careers. A hunch. Ryan’s facial expressions and body language speak volumes. (Speaking of volumes, if you have 28 seconds extra after watching the clip the first time, mute the sound and watch it again while imagining what they’re saying to the principal.)
Here is the video followed by the actual conversation.
Here is the transcript. It’s short.
McConnell: I don't have any advice to uh, to give to the president about that issue. We are moving ahead as the Speaker pointed out to our group yesterday... with… um… what is that amount?
Ryan: (mumbles)
McConnell: With, uh...roughly?
Ryan: 12 to 15
McConnell: Yeah, uh... 12 to 15 billion dollars... SO we intend to address the wall issue ourselves, and the president can deal with his relations with other countries on that issue and other issues.”
Good. Let them flail. Republicans created this Predator in Chief, let them flinch. And let us never forget that while Donald Trump is sucking up most of the media’s attention, it is lawmakers like Ryan and McConnell who have been, and who continue undermining the best interests of the American people — covertly and overtly. The way they just casually threw around a figure of $12B — $15B is disturbing beyond all measure, especially when we know how much that money could help children, the sick, the poor, and so many other humanitarian causes. Instead, they want spend it, our money, building hate and division.
It was GOP lawmakers like Ryan and McConnell that tried to repeal Obamacare over 50 times — a law that disallowed insurance companies from rejecting the sick and suffering and kept companies from imposing lifetime claim limits and pre-existing illness restrictions on those who need insurance and healthcare the most.
While President Obama was in office, Republicans like Ryan and McConnell blocked most every positive bill the president/Democrats tried to pass after the GOP gained majority in Congress. And Republicans reportedly pledged their obstruction in secret pacts.
It was Republican lawmakers like Ryan and McConnell who pushed to defund the healthcare organization Planned Parenthood, took every shot they could to assault women's reproductive rights, blocked life-saving gun sense laws, benefits for veterans, minimum pay raises, equal pay for women, and continue to claim climate change is a hoax.
They are a disgrace to this country just as much as Donald Trump, if not more because they allowed a self-serving reality star to dangerously rise to the highest position in the nation and possibly the world. They used their false propaganda machines like Fox News to spew lies and then turned their backs on the actual proof of Russian election hacking — because it actually served them too. Oh, but Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi. When Trump goes down, the people need to ensure lawmakers like Ryan and McConnell go down with him.
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