Lawrence O’Donnell opened last night’s show by breaking down, in no uncertain terms, how truly abysmal Paul Ryan was as Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Donald Trump has destroyed Paul Ryan's life. As Paul Ryan so clearly realizes, Donald Trump is on his way to destroying Republican control of the house of representatives. The big blue wave is looking so big, so overwhelming to Paul Ryan that he has formally publicly given up even pretending he might run for reelection to his Wisconsin house seat. So Paul Ryan will take his seat as simply the worst of this country's speakers of the House of Representatives. He has earned that place in history through unrelenting cowardice as the Speaker of the House. An office that is constitutionally capable of containing and controlling an out of control president.
But Paul Ryan surrendered all of his powers to the presidency. Previous speakers of the house have relished their powers over the president, turned the presidents into beggars for political favors. But Paul Ryan looked into his soul and found nothing. Nothing but weakness and subservient.
O’Donnell gives Ryan a few minutes to catch his breath before obliterating him again.
Paul Ryan is not even close to being the worst person who has been speaker of the house. Pedophile Dennis Hastert served eight years as speaker of the house, only to be determined as a criminal after. We had slave owners as Speaker of the House. But they've all been better than Paul Ryan.
Ouuuuuuuuuuucchhhhhhhhh. From there, O’Donnell almost jumps through the screen, showing Ryan making his announcement and mentioning former Democratic Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill. O’Donnell likes Tip O’Neill and does not like Paul Ryan, and it’s worth watching. After taking-to-pieces Paul Ryan’s single “accomplishment,” the enormous tax cuts, O’Donnell ends by concluding Paul Ryan is the worst kind of nothing-burger of a person.
So Paul Ryan leaves the speakership having accomplished nothing. Absolutely nothing. He has brought disgrace on the house of representatives by allowing the intelligence committee be disgraced by Devin Nunes.
Paul Ryan was, is, and will always be a failure as a politician, leader, and human being.
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