Paul Ryan Talks Economic Opportunity at CPAC, Eschews Trump Mention
How will the 2016 Conservative Political Action Committee deal with the Donald?
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan zeroed in on economic policy during his brief remarks to the audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday.
"Public officials must see what these harmful regulations are going to do to people living paycheck to paycheck," said Ryan. "Let's go to the root cause of poverty to break the cycle of poverty."
Ryan hailed welfare reform as something that would decrease unemployment.
"We have tens of millions of able-bodied adults who aren't working, who aren't looking for a job, or even getting training for a job," he said.
Perhaps more notable than what Ryan said was what he didn't say. There was no mention of politics, the election, or Donald Trump.
Ryan did mention his lack of a beard, though. Interviewer Carrie Shieffield thanked him for finally shaving it off.
Meanwhile, Trump has predicted he will get along great with Ryan—and if he doesn't, that's Ryan's problem.
"I'm going to get along great with Paul Ryan, and if I don't, he's going to pay a big price," Trump said during a speech after his Super Tuesday victories. [Related: Donald Trump Promises to Rule as Both Conciliatory Dealmaker, Tyrannical Dictator.]
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Took about fifteen seconds before Godwin’s Trump-et sounded off.
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MAN SAYS NOTHING ABOUT TRUMP
– Every word he fails to say about Trump conveys a political opinion
*mouses over link*
Y’know, I really used to enjoy reading Cracked…
It all went downhill when they promoted Dan O’Brien out of his internship. Man, that guy sucks.
Me, too. The stuff from a few years back was really good. Now, its pretty meh, when it isn’t actually irritating.
I used to check in every day. Now, maybe once a week.
I honestly think that Trump learned everything he knows about leadership and politics from watching The Godfather. Except, I think he dozed through the parts where people actually get shot up.
Hillary didn’t.
“…Eschews Trump Mention”
Please hire this guy as Reason editor!
STFU and VOTE TRUMP
Next article:
Will Supreme Court Strike Down Texas Abortion Law?
Also, Why Is Donald Trump Still Running For President?
Andrew Napolitano
He was thinking about him the entire time though
You guys have to be trolling at this point.
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I blame you for this.
Breaking News: Man Goes To Yosemite for Vacation, Doesn’t See Trump
“I’m going to get along great with Paul Ryan, and if I don’t, he’s going to pay a big price,” Trump said during a speech after his Super Tuesday victories.
At least he’s got the dictator affect down.
They never thought it would happen to them.
They were wrong.
The Dictator Effect — Opening April 1 in select theaters.
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I’m a little shocked that Ryan still has the balls to show up at CPAC.
He deserves to have canned tomatoes thrown at him. With the tomatoes still inside the can.
File under = Media Subtlety
Republicans, Democrats
“Female members of the KKK are often referred to as Ladies of the Invisible Empire”
Good band name.
it really is.
Where does it mention Republicans in the KKK slideshow?
Oh my God, the third picture in the set has a female Klansman in there and she’s pretty much exactly what you’d expect, right down to the hoodie and the beer.
Wait the fuck a second… is that a Tattoo I see on an old white Republican?
Whoa. The Rascal. Never fails.
lol. I spit my coffee out on that one.
Reuters = ‘Ain no Kochblocking gown happen‘
Never mind that the premise of the piece is that this pair of billionaires are somehow able to nullify the entire primary process at will if they so chose. Its basically saying, “Shadowy Overlords of GOP Corporate Evil-Machine Passively Accept Ascendance of Hitler-Clone Trump”… or thereabouts.
Gilmore, you clearly haven’t been paying attention. In the 2010 Supreme Court decision Citizen’s United, the evil TEATHUGLIKKKANZ judges said that the kerperayshun that spends the most money can go through the ballots and change them to whatever they want. They also have the right to brainwash people into voting for whomever they say.
Alright, now I’m pretty sure the blog contributors are just trolling us. Why else work Trump into a post that should have nothing to do with him?
Maybe if we stop giving them page views they’ll stop this shit…
From Trumpentag to the CPAC wankfest…I guess I will come back tomorrow and see if anyone is still around.
The ONLY economic opportunity Paul RYNO is interested in is the opportunity to enrich GOP cronies at taxpayers’ expense. Witness the $2 TRILLION pork butt he tries hard to disavow. Free trade, open borders, cheap labor, crony cash contributions = GOP economic opportunity. Don’t for one minute believe the GOP can ‘bring back jobs, restore the middle class, secure the border, etc.’ All blather, bloviation, bluster, bombast and BS! ‘Vote for me; watch government grow like a weed.’