So that's that
by digby
Paul Ryan appeared on the morning shows along with a gaggle of other Republicans and explainex that nothing whatsoever was going to change:
New Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) on Sunday dismissed Democrats’ calls for a paid family leave law as another “federal entitlement,” and said his position isn’t at odds with recent remarks that he wants to spend weekends with his young family in Wisconsin.
“I don’t think people asked me to be Speaker so I can take more money from hard-working taxpayers, so I can create some new federal entitlement,” Ryan said during an appearance on “Fox News Sunday.” “But I think the public wants to have members of Congress that represent them, that are like them.
And this:
Newly-elected House Speaker Paul Ryan all but ended any chance of comprehensive immigration reform during the final year of President Barack Obama's term in office.
In an interview airing Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press," Ryan said the president has "proven himself to be untrustworthy on this issue."
Ryan said consensus on other issues affecting immigration policy, such as border enforcement, could be possible. But because the president took executive action, comprehensive reform is off the table.
"I don't think we can trust the president on this issue," Ryan told NBC's Chuck Todd. "The president has proven himself untrustworthy on this issue because he tried to unilaterally rewrite the law himself. Presidents don't write laws. Congress does."
When asked about conservative critics who believe Ryan would be willing to work with a Democratic president on immigration reform in 2017, he replied, "I was elected Speaker of the House to unify the Republican Congress, not to dis-unify the Republican Congress. That means my job is to lead us to consensus and to, on big controversial issues, operate on that consensus."
I hope everyone understands that by unifying, he means that the House will be unified under the right wing. They run things. And he's not going to oppose them. Boehner took the "important stuff" off the table --- the essential governance necessary to keep the nation from collapsing --- and now it's all wingnut theatre. I think they figure once they win the election the dynamic will shift and they'll start really accomplishing stuff under President Rubio, Cruz or even Carson. Until then, it's all about indulging the loons.
Update: Also too, he says he has always believed in defunding Planned Parenthood but he really wants the Benghazi-style Planned Parenthood witch hunt committee to e able to put a big show first. It will be the first of many such shows.
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