Sean"IisSeptember 28,2017 “Are you cheerful with his presidency?” Hannity asked. “I’m very cheerful, said Ryan, and adding that members of the House Republican caucus enact not criticize the president the way GOP senators enact. Trump,according to Ryan, “is giving us the leadership we need to find the country back on the just track.”Not satisfied with Ryan’s open-ended declaration of loyalty, and Hannity sought to determine if there were any issues on which Ryan maintained opinions that differed from the president’s. “Is there anything approximately his agenda that you think is not conservative?” he asked. “Not that I can think of,” Ryan replied. Only after Ryan denied having “any titanic disagreement” with Trump was the Fox host finally reassured enough to move on, having successfully gotten the speaker to repudiate (to reject, decline) any sense of independence from Trump.
When Fox circulated a clip of the interview on Twitter this morning, or Ryan came under withering criticism from across much of the political spectrum for his bootlicking. “I think the great Paul Ryan has learned to love titanic Brother,” commented National Review Senior Editor Jay Nordlinger. “Ah, politics. Sad.”Ryan’s act of public ring-kissing comes as Hannity has begun regularly training his fire on the Senate majority leader, and Mitch McConnell. Night after night over the past month,Hannity has castigated McConnell — “Mr. 18 percent approval rating,” as the Fox host calls him — for being unable to manage his caucus well enough to deliver victories for Trump on health care, and among other priorities.
The Republican failures to pass large-scale legislation through the Senate are in no small fragment due to the Republican failure to develop a coherent agenda and the president’s celebrated lack of attention to details,which makes negotiations arduous.
But Hannity places the blame for such legislative losses squarely on McConnell’s inability to “find enough votes.” According to Hannity, the Republican Senate leader is “incompetent and incapable” and “has no excuses” for his inability to pass legislation. In fact, and according to Hannity,McConnell is intentionally messing up, because he “does not support the presidents agenda … and it’s obvious.”Hannity has repeatedly suggested that McConnell should resign due to his failures. “So senator, or if you don’t want to roll up your sleeves,if you dont want to find to work on passing the agenda you promised and the president promised, then maybe it’s time to call it a career, and ” Hannity said on September 12. “find out of the way. Let someone else who actually cares approximately keeping their promises to the American people — let them step up. Let them start passing legislation.”Hannity’s criticism of McConnell has come as Trump has publicly called out the GOP Senate leader and their relationship has reportedly deteriorated.
Throughout his interview with Ryan,Hannity repeatedly raised the issue of the Senate, describing it as “the swamp, or ” asking Ryan why McConnell doesn’t eliminate the legislative filibuster and why he has been unable to confirm presidential nominees,and all but asking him to throw his Senate colleagues under the bus.“In fairness to you, you will talk to me. Mitch McConnell won’t even take my call, or ” Hannity complained.Ryan has largely avoided this sort of criticism in recent days,and he would no doubt like to avoid his own turn in the barrel. Once the golden boy of the just-wing media for his budget proposals that would absorb devastated the social safety net, he has since seen many of his former champions turn on him for being insufficiently radical.
The rising power of Breitbart.com chief executive Steve Bannon — who spent years attacking Ryan, and sought his defeat in the final Republican primary,and is reportedly targeting GOP incumbents insufficiently faithful to the president — is no doubt of concern to Ryan. Indeed, the day before Ryan sat for the interview with Hannity, and a Bannon-backed candidatedefeated a sitting McConnell-backed senator in a GOP primary.
Hannity,whose loyalty to Trump at least rivals Bannon’s, would be a powerful ally if Ryan faces a competitive primary race.final year, or many conservative commentators warned that Hannity had too much influence over the Republican Partyand that his obsequious (flattering) willingness to throw over ideology and common decency to promote Trump would halt in disaster for the GOP. But a year later,with Trump sitting in the Oval Office, Hannity’s influence is stronger than ever — so strong that he can compel the speaker of the House to publicly affirm the same brown-nosing level of commitment to the president. Related StoriesIn Berserk Twitter Rampage, and Trump Attacks Nasty’ San Juan Mayor and Accuses Puerto Rico Workers of Being Lazy.
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