Tom Toles for April 15, 2018

Paul Ryan is a spineless coward, who went out of his way to betray the country and cause harm to its poorer citizens. He has always been portrayed as a man of ideas and principle but he has neither. He is an apparatchik who puts his party over the rest of us. He retires at 48 with a full pension but said the rest of us shouldn’t retire until 70. Swine.

Paul Ryan will be remembered for turning tail and running like the spineless coward he is when his massively corrupt and fiscally-irresponsible house of cards collapsed and burned all around him (and sadly, the rest of us).

He ran as a deficit hawk and what he actually delivered was the largest explosion in deficits in history, just so he could REDISTRIBUTE wealth created by working people who produce it to the few richest elites and wealth corporations who already have the most.

He got his tax gift (to himself). Now he’ll run away and become a lobbyist for the corporate welfare queens he has so generously enriched, and who will reward him handsomely as an example for others who may want the same largesse in the future.

It has always puzzled me how Paul D. “Cowardly” Ryan could be celebrated as some sort of policy/numbers wonk. It’s always seemed to me that everything he proposed or promoted was, on the face of it, abject nonsense at best. The epitaph for his congressional career: Paul Ryan, worse than useless.

Paul Ryan was supposed to be their wunderkind, their precocious Ayn Randroid and he was all hype, no juice.

As we approach Tuesday, November 6, we may well trip over an October Surprise.

BYE-BYE – {limerick}

“Bye-bye,” to the Rs says Ryan.

“No longer my tryin’ and tryin’

to make us viable.

Y’awl ain’t reliable

in the party’s re-unifyin’.”

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{Off the cartoon’s topic:}

TRUMP SHOWS HIS GUILT – {limerick and coda}

The Donald shows his guilt

by stabbing his foes to the hilt.

His tenure will wilt,

never re-built.

Too much like a crazy-quilt.

… Coda:

Don Trumpxote the windmills he tilts,

but it’s Donald himSelf whom he knocks off his stilts.

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{Off the cartoon’s topic:}

DESCRIPTORS FOR THE DONALD – {1.40 limericks and a ps}

There once was a prez quite hubristic,

who governed in ways narcissistic

and pugilistic

and quite fascistic

and male-chauvinistic

and not humanistic.

When confronted he’d go quite ballistic.

… PS:

- and not altruistic

and a tad sadistic

and quite unrealistic.

[We citizens were not optimistic.]

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It will be interesting to see how Trump reacts to a Dem controlled congress.

I didn’t want to face the heat. Bye bye kitchen.

The speaker of the house is rarely popular, but Ryan seems to be trying for the record.

http://news.gallup.com/poll/232421/news-paul-ryan.aspx

Do Republicans actually tell their children that Ryan is a good example to follow?

@DANI RICE, @WAITINGMAN and SADANDCONFUSED9 — I’m very much afraid that he’ll first fire Mueller at some point during the next two months or so, and at some point during the following three to four months will cancel the next elections declaring himself President for Life. Unless of course he does start the Third World War destroying almost all life on the planet.

good plays on words.

[sung to the tune of the Mexican Hat Dance]

There was a young coward named Ryan

Who kept lyin’ and lyin’ and lyin’

While democracy kept right on dyin’

“I want to spend time with my kids!”

He therefore has proved he is spineless

Like a defective fork which is tineless

But he’s doing his family a kindness

“I want to spend time with my kids!”

Put an end to the old people’s party theft of America in November.

The line is, “Have a nice trip, see you next Fall.”

As a porbeagle shark, he got his mouth full of flesh from the mortally wounded leviathan known as “The Public Good.”