House Speaker Paul Ryan is not having much success in getting the House to do anything, at all. But he's trying his damnedest to make the Republican party not a laughingstock despite the challenges of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz and that whole not being able to do anything at all in Congress. He's laying down the law in a speech Wednesday.
“Looking around at what’s taking place in politics today, it is easy to get disheartened,” Mr. Ryan is expected to say, according to remarks prepared for a speech he is scheduled to deliver in his old digs in the hearing room of the Ways and Means Committee. “How many of you find yourself just shaking your head at what you see from both sides?”
“I have made it a mission of my speakership to raise our gaze and aim for a brighter horizon. Instead of talking about what politics is today, I want to talk about what politics can be. I want to talk about what our country can be.”
Good luck with that, Mr. Speaker. He's also disregarding the fact that Trump and Cruz are presenting a vision of what America can be, and it's one plenty of Republicans like. That's largely in part thanks to Ryan himself, and every other elected Republican who have pushed the party to the extremes. It's too late to put the brakes on now.