And what about Paul Ryan?

It has been regularly pointed out in this shebeen that Speaker Paul Ryan, the zombie-eyed granny starver from the state of Wisconsin, is, indeed, the Biggest. Fake. Ever. All along, however, I had limited that distinction to planet Earth. But after Ryan’s performing-seal act on Thursday afternoon, where he showed his Koch-upholstered arse on the subject of Devin Nunes’ phony memo, I am extending that title to include all members of the United Federation of Planets, all captive worlds in the Klingon and Romulan Empires, and every small village along the foothills of the Big Rock Candy Mountain. There’s nobody close.

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sssRyan’s record as a civil liberties champion has been heretofore well-camouflaged. Not two weeks ago, Ryan arranged for an extension of the NSA’s warrantless surveillance program for another six years, and he also arranged that proposed safeguards aimed at protecting the privacy rights of American citizens failed to pass. Paul Ryan is a less of a civil libertarian than he is an economist, and that boggles the mind. Ryan also maintained that #ReleaseTheMemo was not designed as an attack on Mueller and his investigation—which is a problem because the president* already said it was.

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The Democratic leadership in the House, especially Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi, was howling most of Thursday for Ryan to strip Nunes of his chairmanship. That is what a real Speaker of the House would do. (Hell, if Mr. Sam Rayburn ever had a committee chair go this far off the reservation, he’d have buried the poor bastard under the Capitol steps.) The only thing about Paul Ryan of which we can be completely certain is that he’s the Biggest Fake In The Galaxy.

  Charles P Pierce

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.