Paul Ryan's sick sycophancy

The House Speaker is setting records for cravenly quick and complete embrace of an unbalanced, woman-grabbing, pathologically-dishonest Republican Party President just to be able to tell his wealthy House of Representative campaign donors

that tax breaks he's been promising during a six-year campaign to take away health care coverage from millions of lower-income Americans may be in sight through Trump's equally contemptible class warfare.

“The president just came here and knocked the ball out of the park,” Mr. Ryan said. “He knocked the cover off the ball.”