Paul Ryan isn’t joining the Republicans suggesting that President Obama faked his tears over the children killed at Sandy Hook … but he doesn’t seem to see why Obama would waste his time or emotion on 20 murdered children.
Asked by Yahoo News’s Katie Couric if he was moved by the president’s tears on Tuesday during the announcement of executive actions to expand gun control, Ryan responded, “I was affected by it, but I thought we should’ve had the same kind of reaction when James Foley was beheaded, when San Bernardino and Paris occurred. That’s the kind of reaction I had when those occurred.”
Well, then, you win the what-to-grieve-for Olympics, Paul Ryan! Except … “same kind of reaction”? Are we talking tears, or are we talking actual action? Because your party blocked action to do anything to prevent future Sandy Hooks—is that the “same kind of reaction” you’re looking for on the killings you prefer to grieve over?
Guess not:
Ryan, who has dismissed Obama’s executive orders as a “distraction,” said the public should be discussing how to defeat ISIS instead.
“What I think he’s trying to do is distract from basically his failed policies,” Ryan said of Obama.
Yeah. Obama trying to do what little he can to prevent future mass murders in American schools, movie theaters, and public buildings is a “distraction” from the one and only thing we’re allowed to care about, per Paul Ryan: ISIS. San Bernardino (which the president definitely talked about, by the way, just as he has repeatedly addressed an ISIS strategy) counts, because ISIS. Sandy Hook doesn’t count, because NRA.
Funny how Ryan doesn’t want us distracted by murdered children, but yet another Obamacare repeal vote is a totally kosher use of time and attention.