Paul Ryan can’t fix what ails Congress: Your Say

Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., was elected and sworn in as speaker of the House last week. Comments from Facebook are edited for clarity and grammar:

This is a proud moment for Wisconsin. Ryan is an exceptionally bright and talented man. I appreciate his sacrifice in taking this position.

— Bob Heck

He’ll get his honeymoon and then fall hostage to the misnamed “Freedom Caucus.”

— Gene Davison

If Ryan can bring the Tea Party zealots into line, he will have done his job. They put their interests ahead of America’s.

— Molly Simpson

Well, Republican-in-name-only Ryan, you are adding to the nation’s problems by failing to address our unsustainable national debt by doing what politicians do: kick the can down the road.

— Aaron Bowen

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Letter to the editor:

Paste BN reported Friday that newly elected House Speaker Paul Ryan has announced “it’s time to fix a ‘broken’ House and begin solving the nation’s problems instead of adding to them” (“Paul Ryan, elected 54th speaker, pledges to fix ‘broken’ House”).

But this is just more lip service for the American public to impatiently absorb while approval ratings for Congress sit at all-time lows.

Paste BN, you don’t fess up to the fact that absolutely nothing is going to change from the business-as-usual politics in Washington until a new constitutional amendment gets passed that limits terms for these lawmakers to a maximum of eight years in office, the same limit as set for the president.

Bill Hall; Seattle