2016 April 12^th

This column was censored yesterday, and again today, by a persistent circulating virus to which so far only the dog and 22- year-old cat have been immune. We are thankful for the smallest of favors!

Paul Ryan, the Speaker of the House, announced at a press conference this afternoon that he could not possibly (no way--no how) run for the Presidency. No one gathered in that room to hear him believed a word of it. The reason was that Speaker Ryan had said the very same thing when he claimed the he did not want to be Speaker of the House. Some of his listeners when he made his announcement today rather unkindly pointed this out to him (The press being the press after all; bless their souls.) Speaker Ryan immediately went on a defensive riff pointing out the differences between the two positions. He pointed out that he became Speaker of the House when he was already in the House. Of course he did, and so what? He can become President of the United States because he’s already a citizen of the United States, born right there in Wisconsin.

The current leading candidate for the Presidency believes the current occupant of the White House was born in Kenya. Then a majority of Republicans believe the President is a Muslim. Just imagine the handicaps the Speaker of the House will avoid by opting to run for the Presidency this year. Everyone will acknowledge that he is a red blooded American Christian born in the USA…everyone will forget how he helped shut down the American government in 2013...but we haven’t forgotten..