A pox on the Washington Examiner (even if it is a Republican rag) and on House Speaker Paul Ryan's PR people for creating this nauseating bit of fluff selling the guy who dreamed of kicking millions of people off of Medicaid when he was just college kid hanging out at the keg. Ryan, whose primary goal is making life as miserable as possible for the most vulnerable in society, is "Mr. Kindness" all of a sudden.
Tax reform, his self-avowed duty to fix Obamacare, poverty, opioid addiction and a 100-year correction of 20th century progressivism are foremost on his mind.
So is civility.
"It's pretty raw in the country right now," he says.
Wherever he goes, but especially when young people are in the audience, Ryan stresses the importance of spreading civility. "It is something I talk to my staff and the members of my committee about," he adds. […]
"We get hit so much, I say just don't respond in kind, just kill with kindness, just let people get stuff off of their chest," he says, explaining his instructions on civility.
Kicking 24 million people off of insurance is the kind thing to do. And in case you were wondering, lying to young people apparently is just fine in Ryan's ethos. "The problem, he believes, begins with people mistakenly thinking the bill affects job-based insurance. 'They just see 'healthcare' and they think their own healthcare may be at stake,' he says." Guess what asshole? That's because it is! Even The Wall Street Journal says so. Remember this, the report from a few weeks ago? This part:
Under the House bill, large employers could choose the benefit requirements from any state—including those that are allowed to lower their benchmarks under a waiver, health analysts said. By choosing a waiver state, employers looking to lower their costs could impose lifetime limits and eliminate the out-of-pocket cost cap from their plans under the GOP legislation.
And let’s not even get started on Ryan on tax reform.
"The entire goal of tax reform is to get faster economic growth and faster wage growth. To get the economy to grow faster so that people get more take-home pay," he says. Yeah, right—he's worried about the average schmoe's paycheck. Just like he's worried about their health insurance.
Ryan and his handlers are clearly worried about how bad the Trumpcare and Zombie Trumpcare fiasco has made him look, including the potential re-vote the House might have to take because of his incompetence. So here we are with the verbal equivalent of Paul Ryan re-washing already clean pots and pans at a soup kitchen for a photo op.
It’s all empty, meaningless tripe that glosses over the sociopath that lies beneath.