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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (92397)	9/3/2018 8:41:05 AM
From: Sam	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362209

Seems to me this is an example of the kind of hyped attribution of shortcomings to prejudice that compromises legitimate causes for equality. That women are held to a higher standard does not mean that's the essence of the issue with this woman. And yet... as the article suggests, is Paul Ryan ready for prime time? For example, Paul Ryan’s been fact-checked for years and he’s still considered an ideas man. PolitiFact has collected some of Ryan’s “pants on fire” claims, like: “We’ve got dozens of counties around America that have zero insurers left.” “We got to a point that our Air Force pilots were going to museums to find spare parts over the last eight years” under President Obama. “Because of Obamacare, Medicare is going broke.” Obama “has doubled the size of government since he took office.” No one saw these statements and said Ryan is unfit to serve in Congress. No one told him to go put training wheels back on. No one told him he wasn’t ready for primetime. And he is just one of many. Or is "being mistaken" and outright lying just what is to be expected from folks like Ryan and McConnell who hold leadership positions in Congress? They aren't being naive when they lie, they are being shrewdly partisan, unlike poor Ocasio-Cortez.