Paul Ryan's Zika Antics Prove He Deserves Trump

[KamaAina]

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/paul-ryans-zika-antics-prove-he-deserves-trump-w438448

But he didn't, and he won't. Not because he's painted himself into a political corner, and not out of loyalty to the Republican nominee. Paul Ryan supports Donald Trump for president because he's just as awful as Donald Trump....

It is solely Paul Ryan and the Republicans in Congress who are responsible for blocking the funding for ZIka and putting the lives of children — children! — at grave risk. They've turned a critical emergency funding request into an ugly tool for political gain. They're trying to shut down a health care provider that the nation's most vulnerable women rely on for everything from abortion to screening for cancer to preventing sexually transmitted infections — including Zika.

This is as awful as any of the horrible things we've seen Donald Trump do over the course of this campaign. It's ugly politics at its ugliest, dressed up in fancy suits and procedural votes. Children are being born with debilitating birth defects, and Paul Ryan believes that's an opportunity to score some political points or maybe even shut down some health clinics.

Ryan has a carefully crafted image. His initial reluctance to endorse Trump was an attempt to draw a line between "serious" Republicans like him and a clown like Trump. Don't let his antics fool you. There's a reason the party of Paul Ryan nominated Donald Trump: They're peas in the same morally corrupt pod. Anyone who would risk the health of women and children the way Ryan is doing deserves a nominee like Trump.

[kysrsoze]

1. Agree. He's a snake and not at all concerned abou serving the public

[KamaAina]

2. Hey! I once had a friendship with an indigo snake at Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo!

[kentuck]

3. kick

good read!

[Make7]

4. How does cutting funding to Planned Parenthood help combat the Zika virus? ( n/t )

[KamaAina]

5. It doesn't. What it does is let them point the finger of blame at Dems for blocking it.

And, of course, the M$M laps it up like kitty does a saucer of milk.

[Make7]

6. That's my point. The press/pundits/politicians need to be asking...

... how the provision limiting money from going to Planned Parenthood will actually help fight the Zika virus. If no one can explain how that part of the bill will hinder the primary purpose of the legislation then I would hope it obvious to people that the purpose of the additional restriction to prevent funding going to an organization (that can actually help with the problem) is merely politics, and has nothing to do with passing badly needed emergency funding.

This seems an obvious instance, and one easy to expose - yet the case doesn't seem like it is being effectively made.