but their nutritional needs remain instinctual. that s why there s purina one true instinct. real meat #1. a different breed of natural nutrition. purina one true instinct. now, try new purina one true instinct treats. welcome back. house speaker pull ryan s decision to retire is not only setting off a debate over who should replace him, but when. ryan is adamant he will serve out the rest of his term, both as a member of congress and as speaker. that means jockeying for the next house republican leader would play out for another seven months with a quote lame duck officer in place. but some house republicans are already calling for ryan to let a successor take over and eliminate the uncertainty now. for instance, georgia republican congressman tom graves said quote we would have more success
and they liked what they saw but they hope more members take advantage of being able to engage their constituents in the next recess. if you see some of the harpoons that come in at those, we ll see if that happens. but kudos to those who have the courage to do it and do it consistently. the week ahead is a giant test of the relationship between president trump and pull ryan. during the obamacare debacle the white house and the speaker repeatedly talked of working hand in glove but let s be honest, there were many rough moments. now the white house wants a house vote on obamacare repeal and the speaker saying we can t commit to this until it sees proof of progress, which means more votes. the speaker is making clear his top priority is keeping the government open even if he can t get the white house everything it wants in the spending measure. hand in glove again? we ll see. it s a giant week ahead. that s it for inside politics. thanks for sharing your sunday morning. hope you c
and let me tell you this, in a mitt romney administration, we will not keep practicing this policy of appeasement. we will be tough on this cruel dictator. all it has done is reward more despotism. and we will help the pro democracy groups. we will be tough on castro and chavez. and it s because we know that that s the right policy for our country. notice that paul ryan didn t say the embargo is working. that s what makes this an exquisite bit of rhetorical pandering. it has the key phrases that castro haters want to hear. you can think that fidel castro was a brutal dictator, as pull ryan and i do, and at the same time, think that the embargo doesn t work. as paul ryan and i do. paul ryan s pandering was perfect because it did not directly contradict anything he had actually said before. paul ryan knew there was no
pandering. it has the key phrases that castro haters want to hear. you can think that fidel castro was a brutal dictator, as pull ryan and i do, and at the same time, think that the embargo doesn t work. as paul ryan and i do. paul ryan s pandering was perfect because it did not directly contradict anything he had actually said before. paul ryan knew there was no rational economic or foreign policy case to make for the embargo, and so he didn t. but what did his pandering on the embargo win him? that rhetorical pandering? well, he was re-elected to his house seat in wisconsin where no one cared about what he said about the embargo. and he was on the bottom half of the losing presidential ticket in florida where, as it turned out, not enough people cared about his pandering for the cuban-american vote, including cuban-americans. yesterday, democratic presidential candidate hillary clinton endorseds president obama s policy and jeb bush condemned it. the benefactors of president obama s
is making all this money through salaries. the foreclosure crisis had a lot to do with wiping that out as well. what s amazing to me is, you look at the food stamp enrollment increasing exponentially and the reaction from the gop is, there s obviously fraud and waste here. we need to cut the roles rather than thinking this is systemic failure that so many people are living on so little. beyond that i think there s a generalized turn in the republican party right now to the final solution they have left for them for how to handle poverty which is, if you re not willing to have the government do anything, then the only action left to you is to have the government stop doing a lot of things. this has become the argument you hear from pull ryan and others on programs like food stamps. you hear the argument that the government has become a hammock, what s going wrong in the lives of people who don t have jobs or only make $10,000 or $15,000 a