The Continuing Journey of the Last True Conservative Intellectual
By It's gone now but someone had edited the Wikipedia page for invertebrates to include Paul Ryan 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/Oe7qOSp027
— Alp Ozcelik (@alplicable) January 26, 2017
Paul Ryan is a principled man.
“This is not conservatism.”
In just four words, House Speaker Paul D. Ryan made clear in December 2015 that then-candidate Donald Trump’s suggestion to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the United States has no place in the Republican Party.
A little more than a year later, President Trump has signed an executive order temporarily halting admission of all refugees — with an indefinite pause on Syrian refugees — and a pause on all visitors from seven predominantly Muslim countries for 120 days. Trump has promised priority for Christians. The order is meant to give U.S. agencies more time to come up with a more stringent vetting system.
Ryan (R-Wis.) appears to have a completely different perspective on Trump’s executive order. Here’s what he said in a statement released Friday (my emphasis added in bold):
Our number one responsibility is to protect the homeland. We are a compassionate nation, and I support the refugee resettlement program, but it’s time to reevaluate and strengthen the visa vetting process. This is why we passed bipartisan legislation in the wake of the Paris attacks to pause the intake of refugees. President Trump is right to make sure we are doing everything possible to know exactly who is entering our country.
As a number of people have pointed out, Paul Ryan will agree to literally anything, no matter how horrible, if it advances his goal of stealing from the poor to give to the rich. I’m sure the Beltway crush on him will end any day now.