So did Paul Ryan declare the GOP is more racist then Hillary???

Editorial cartoonist Clay Jones writes:

• On the same day Speaker of the House Paul Ryan said he was voting for Donald Trump, note he didn’t say “endorse”, he had to make a statement condemning Trump’s racism. On Tuesday he actually came out and described Trump’s statements toward a judge as “racist.”
  Within the same paragraph of describing Trump’s comments as racist, Ryan went on to say that he and his party had more in common with Trump than Hillary Clinton. If Paul Ryan had a soul he lost it last Monday.

78 percent of Mississippi voters favor school choice

[]Steve Wilson - Mississippi Watchdog

In a recent poll commissioned by pro-school choice group Empower Mississippi, registered voters in Mississippi overwhelmingly supported school choice.

The poll completed by Virginia-based On Message Inc. found that 78 percent of the 800 likely voters surveyed said they supported school choice, with 83 percent of Republicans and 73 percent of Democrats in favor.

The poll also found that 69 percent of respondents would support a pro-school choice candidate, 57 percent favored charter schools, 56 percent favored the educational savings account program that is now available only to parents with special needs children and 58 percent support expanding it for all parents.

Grant Callen, president and founder of Empower Mississippi, said the poll reflected his view that a silent majority of Mississippians favored school choice.
“The most compelling thing to me was the diversity,” Callen said. “Show me another issue where it’s across party lines. African-Americans support it by 73 percent.

“Most political issues, like abortion, gay marriage and guns, you name it, controversial issues, you’ll see Republicans very supportive and Democrats very opposed. And then you flip them on another issue. This one is not like that. It’s not a partisan issue.”

When asked to assign an overall letter grade to Mississippi public schools, 57 percent of respondents gave them a grade of C or worse. Forty-four percent of participants graded their local schools as C or worse.
Callen said his organization has several key goals for the legislative session, including expansion of the state’s fledgling ESA program, allowing students to cross district lines to attend charter schools in other districts and appointed rather than elected school superintendents.

While the vote on the ESA legislation passed last year was a tight one, the poll might convince skeptical legislators that a vote for school choice might be in their electoral interest. Empower’s political action committee helped defeat four anti-school choice legislators in DeSoto County in last year’s GOP primary. The poll showed why the four were defeated, as 73 percent surveyed in the Memphis media market (where DeSoto County is located) said they’d favor a pro-school choice candidate.

“Anecdotally, we’ve always known there’s been support (for school choice),” Callen said. “Once you get beyond the education establishment, superintendents, principals and administrators, it’s undeniable. We’ve known it from talking to parents for years, but the poll proved it. It helps encourage legislators that it’s not as controversial as previously thought.”

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MEME REPORT:
PAUL RYAN?

Paul Ryan Seeks to Turn the 2016 Presidential Election to the Establishment

A New York Times article summarized:

• He (Paul Ryan)  invited the Congressional Black Caucus and other minority caucuses to a holiday reception and will try to reach beyond the Republican base. “It means show up and talk to everybody, appeal to everyone,” he said.
  And that will start with Republican primary voters, about a third of whom have been swayed so far by Mr. Trump’s recipe of strict immigration policies, tough foreign policy talk, blunt and highly personal critiques of his competitors, and a vague appeal for general greatness.
  “There is this real, palpable anxiety in the country” fueled by stagnant wages and slow economic growth, Mr. Ryan said, “and then you turn on the TV and you see ISIS, you see San Bernardino and you see all these security threats, and it’s like the world is on fire.”
  At the same time, “we have to make sure populism doesn’t trump individual rights,” he said. “It’s a distraction to prey on fears.”

In other words, Ryan is seeking to sway the election to go the way he thinks it should: Back into the mainstream of establishment Republicans, like himself...and the others who have lost along with him, like Mitt Romney and John McCain. Ryan doesn't get it. The most main stream establishment  Republican in the candidate list is Lindsey Graham and he can't even poll as a favorite presidential candidate in his own state.

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MEME REPORT:
RELIGION OF PEACE?

The Capital Times: Did Marco Rubio just take a swipe at Paul Ryan on poverty?

U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Janesville, has made poverty a pet issue. For months the House budget chairman has been visiting blighted urban centers and has offered his own plan to help struggling Americans.
Ryan has also authored a string of budgets that slash the social safety net and has harped relentlessly on the failures of the War on Poverty.

Democrats have consistently hammered the former VP candidate for giving lip service to the poor then trying to pull the rug out from under them. Now he's getting push-back from within the GOP.
"Our debt isn’t driven by discretionary spending on poverty programs,” U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida told the New York Times magazine. “We’re not going to balance the budget by saving money on safety-net programs.”

"Marco Rubio Said What?!" reads a headline to a story by Danny Vinik in the New Republic.
"Sen. Marco Rubio delivered a subtle message to Rep. Paul Ryan and the rest of the Republican Party on Tuesday: Stop trying to balance the budget on the backs of the poor," Vinik writes. "It’s a sweeping change for a prominent presidential candidate from a party that has spent the last few years endorsing a document — the Ryan budget — that proposes drastic cuts to low-income programs."

This is a good place to note that both Ryan and Rubio are potential contenders for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, and Rubio's snub of Ryan's policies was implicit.

"Now, Rubio didn’t refute the Ryan budget explicitly," Vinik writes. "His comments came in a New York Times magazine article by Sam Tanenhaus on the reform conservatism movement."

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