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Headed Home<\/p>\n

Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives Paul Ryan has given up.\u00a0 He has chosen not to run for re-election to Congress from the 1st<\/sup>District of Wisconsin.\u00a0 He\u2019s going home to Janesville: \u00a0he\u2019s had enough.<\/p>\n

For the moment he will keep his Speakership, but a lame duck Speaker can do little to further legislation.\u00a0Kevin McCarthy (California) and Steve Scalise (Lousiana), are the two leading contenders for party leadership maneuvering for his job.\u00a0 Ryan knows that Republicans face a debacle in the fall election, polling shows that the Democrats may well gain the majority in the House.\u00a0 The Republican leadership battle may be for Minority Leader, not Speaker.<\/p>\n

Ryan has been a \u201crising star\u201d for the Party since he was elected to Congress in 1999 at 29 years of age.\u00a0He gained a committee chairmanship early, based on his special expertise in government spending, and chaired the Budget Committee from 2011 until he became Speaker in 2015.\u00a0 In 2012, he was the Republican nominee for Vice President of the United States, running with Mitt Romney against Barack Obama and Joe Biden.<\/p>\n

He has a \u201cBoy Scout\u201d image (though he was only briefly in the Scouts.)\u00a0 His dedication to his family (wife Janna and three children) is legendary, he almost didn\u2019t take the Speaker job because of the time commitment to travel and fund raising that would take him away from Janesville, where his family still resides.\u00a0 He goes back to his family there almost every weekend.<\/p>\n

So what happened to this \u201cstar\u201d of the Republican Party?\u00a0 Why has he left his party \u00a0and country at this most critical time in American history?\u00a0 As third in line for the Presidency of the United States, with a looming Constitutional crisis, why has he taken himself \u201cout of the game?\u201d<\/p>\n

Many site his distaste for President Trump.\u00a0 Ryan\u2019s \u201cBoy Scout\u201d image does not fit well with the President of Porn Stars, Playgirls, and Access Hollywood fame.\u00a0 Others claim that Ryan\u2019s ultimate goal was achieved by re-writing the tax code.\u00a0 The tax cut bill passed, and so Ryan is done.\u00a0And still others suggest that Ryan is disgusted with the compromises he has had to make, accepting a $1.6 trillion deficit in the last budget.\u00a0 Ryan has always been a balanced budget proponent, now as Speaker he has led a huge increase in the United States\u2019 debt.<\/p>\n

Paul Ryan failed to use his Speakership to defend the key values of the Republican Party against the short-term transactional deals of President Trump.\u00a0 He failed to stand for the values he claimed to believe in:\u00a0from balanced budgets and reduced government spending on entitlements, to ethical behavior and equal rights for all citizens.\u00a0 Again and again, from the Convention in Cleveland, to Charlottesville, to corruption in the EPA; Ryan had the opportunity to standup for what the Republican Party believes.\u00a0He didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Why:\u00a0 again and again why did Paul Ryan swallow his distaste and stand beside the President?\u00a0 Was the \u201cTrump Base\u201d so dangerous to the Republican Party that they must be coddled at the cost of the “soul ” of the party?\u00a0 Others in the Party took principled stands:\u00a0 John Kasich, John McCain and Jeff Flake among them.\u00a0 Why did Ryan make his \u201cdeal with the Devil,\u201d a deal that clearly has cost him his title and career?<\/p>\n

The answer does not fit the \u201cBoy Scout\u201d image.\u00a0 Ryan\u2019s party raced away from him to follow Trump, and instead of standing for \u201csomething,\u201d this supposedly principled man chose to follow instead of lead.\u00a0 He did so with the hope of gaining power, of using Trump to pursue his own agenda.\u00a0 What he found was that Trump, a rookie politician, out politicked the Speaker, and got what Trump wanted.<\/p>\n

And Ryan and the Republican Party compromised themselves by accepting the same kind of Russian money that has so compromised the Trump family.\u00a0 While little has been said, millions from such figures as Oleg Deripaska (of Paul Manafort fame) found its way into Republican coffers (Dallas Morning News<\/a>.) \u00a0Perhaps they have little choice but to accept what Trump does, they are under the same influences as him.<\/p>\n

Ryan was the \u201cheir apparent\u201d for Republican leadership after the 2012 Presidential election, he continued on that path to power by accepting the Speakership when John Boehner left.\u00a0He has failed the Party, and his country.\u00a0 It isn\u2019t because he didn\u2019t prevent the takeover of the party by Donald Trump, he joins the many who were unable to see that coming and couldn’t prevent it.\u00a0No, he failed by not standing for what he believed, and what he clearly thinks this nation needs.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s headed home to Janesville, a figure of failed promise.\u00a0 America needed his leadership before, and needs it even more today. \u00a0But he\u2019s taking his ball and going home.<\/p>\n

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