Eight Things Paul Ryan Has Learned About Governing
The speaker of the House had grand ambitions for the first 200 days of this Congress.
Back in the more innocent political days of January, Paul Ryan cast an eye out over the promised land of Republican-controlled Washington and thought: Now is the time to put forth my sweeping 200-day agenda!
Before the exodus of August recess, declared the speaker, his team would achieve amazing things for America: overhauling the tax code, funding a border wall, rolling back regulation on business, lifting the debt ceiling, and, to placate the new president, investing a chunk of change in infrastructure. Most vitally, the party would fulfill its seven-year vow to kill Obamacare. This last was to happen by early April.
All of which evokes the Yiddish proverb: Man plans, God laughs.
Not that the past 200 days have
