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http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a15929493/paul-ryan-cleanse/Now Paul Ryan Is Casually Throwing Around the Word 'Cleanse'
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By Charles P. Pierce
Jan 30, 2018
WASHINGTONYou may have missed it, but two of the governments most influential eunuchs came out in public on Tuesday. They sang their songs in a lovely soprano voice. There was hardly a dollop of spittle left to lick when they were done. First up was Speaker Paul Ryan, the zombie-eyed granny starver from the state of Wisconsin who had a bit of a meltdown at his daily press conference when the subject of the president*s attempt to demolish the FBI came up. From The Hill:
Cleanse? Is he out of his mind? Does he have any idea what that word means in the history of the last century? And cleanse the FBI of what, precisely? Agents who know the truth about the corrupt old man who has Ryans balls on the mantelpiece at Mar-A-Lago? Agents who can draw into sharp relief all the damage that Ryan is willing to force the republic to endure so his donor class can suck up even more the nations wealth? You can put Paul Ryans essential patriotism in a shotglass and have more than enough room for the whiskey. Hes the biggest fake in the history of the Congress, and thats saying something.
Elsewhere in the Capitol, a Senate committee got a chance to ask questions of Scott Pruitt, the energy-industry sublet now in charge of the Environmental Protection Agency. Most of the questions involved Pruitts campaign to put oil wells and open-pit mines on every half-acre of public land. But there also was some curiosity about what Pruitt said concerning the current president* back when Pruitt was working with Jeb Bushs expiring campaign. From CNN:
It got better.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, read Pruitt's remarks and asked him, "Do you recall saying that?"
"I don't, senator," Pruitt said. "I don't echo that today at all.
Later, of course, Pruitts office turned the fulsome up to 11, just in case Russian hitmen were hanging about.
I expect that, during tonights State of the Union, a lot of the Republicans in Congress, as well as key figures in the administration*, will pass the time by playing a little solitaire.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Cha
(298,077 posts)to be applied.. starting with fucked up, paul ryan. Cleanse!
Eliot Rosewater
(31,150 posts)These traitors might get away with it though.
SergeStorms
(19,205 posts)Mueller extends his investigation into members of Congress as well. We need to get all of these Russian loving bastards out of Congress, and we need to do it NOW!
global1
(25,298 posts)saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)It is up to the voters in his patch to send him home without honors. imo
madaboutharry
(40,247 posts)It is something Stalin would have said.
They are all compromised.
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)We passed that line for Ryan and McConnell a long time ago. For the last decade or two, they have been talking to Republicans who sucked up all their ideas and lies. Democrats don't do that, so don't bother.
Cleanse? There isn't enough soap in the world to clean up your party. Keep your filthy hands off our intelligence and justice departments. You've already done enough damage there. Don't even think of touching the Democratic party nor our precious country.
jmowreader
(50,601 posts)It WILL take about a million gallons of bunker oil. We simply load them all onto ships, haul them to Africa, go as far up the Congo River as we possibly can, and abandon them.
Baitball Blogger
(46,780 posts)Ryan is promoting a take-over.
spanone
(135,950 posts)criminal motherhumpers
ThoughtCriminal
(14,057 posts)And by "Getting it all out there", they have made it clear that by "all", they mean just the GOP staffer conspiracy theories and stuff that compromises our National Security.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,563 posts)Anybody close enough to Pierce to request a few pints of his blood? We need to get some into the veins of some Congress critters.
Maybe inject a few "journalists", too.
BadgerMom
(2,772 posts)Honestly, I hate those two more than I do Trump. Although, I guess its different on different days of the week.
roamer65
(36,748 posts)Think former Yugoslavia.
Dump has much in common with Slobodan Milosevic.
ancianita
(36,238 posts)gademocrat7
(10,688 posts)He is a greedy evil man.