Ryan Won’t Seek GOP 2016 Nomination

Try to hold back the tears America: Paul Ryan, the cat food for seniors, inner city folks are lazy, change how we do math to make my budget work, Romney loving, failed VP candidate, has decided not to run for the GOP nomination in 2016. Well I’m verklempt, how about you? According to NBC:

“I have decided that I am not going to run for president in 2016,” … noting that he is “at peace” with the decision he made “weeks ago” to forgo a bid for the White House.

“It is amazing the amount of encouragement I have gotten from people – from friends and supporters – but I feel like I am in a position to make a big difference where I am and I want to do that,” he said.

His first big difference, “changing how Congress does math”, as Mother Jones reported:

Republicans, led by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), their budget guru, are considering altering the way Congress calculates the costs of tax cuts—a move that could make big tax cuts for the rich appear less costly than they really are. (…)

If they make this change, they could argue that new tax cuts for the well-to-do would partly pay for themselves—and wave the JCT [Joint Committee on Taxation] -CBO [Congressional Budget Office] seal of approval to justify their claim.

Would the JCT and CBO back up this new Republican accounting gimmick? Well, Republicans can order them to do it, or simply replace their Directors with ones willing to help perpetrate the fraud; and as Mojo’s post put it:

Neither congressional Dems nor President Barack Obama can prevent that.

So Ryan still has too much work to do in Congress to run for President, like lying, cheating, and stealing, to pay back the GOP’s rich campaign benefactors.