{"id":38543,"date":"2019-08-21T00:53:15","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T00:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38543"},"modified":"2019-08-21T00:53:15","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T00:53:15","slug":"mr-ryan-is-moving-to-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38543","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Ryan is moving to Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I don’t know exactly why this is such a big deal, why the media are making hay about it, but it kinda\/sorta is<\/em> a big deal.<\/p>\n

Former U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan is moving from his beloved hometown of Janesville, Wis., to Washington, D.C. Yep, he’s moving his family — all of ’em — to the nation’s capital city.<\/p>\n

Why is it a big deal?<\/p>\n

Here’s my take. Ryan made quite a big splash about how he loved getting out of Washington, how he cherished his time away from The Beltway, how he wanted to commune with the home folks to get a feel of what the rest of Middle America was thinking.<\/p>\n

He’s now out of office. He left the speakership and the House of Representatives at the end of 2018. Maybe he’s had all the Middle America perspective he can stand.<\/p>\n

Let’s remember, too, that Ryan ran for vice president in 2012 on the Republican ticket led by now U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah. Indeed, I recall vividly during that campaign how Ryan espoused the virtues of going home, of how he wanted to spend as much time as possible away from the halls of power.<\/p>\n

To be fair, Ryan is not selling his Janesville home. He and his wife will rent a house in the D.C. ‘burbs in Maryland. He plans to return home to Janesville. His foundation will be based back “home.”<\/p>\n

It’s just that when a national politician makes a lot of noise about spending time away from the Center of the Political Universe, only to return to it, well \u2026 it does make me scratch my noggin.<\/p>\n\n

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I don’t know exactly why this is such a big deal, why the media are making hay about it, but it kinda\/sorta is a big deal. Former U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan is moving from his beloved hometown of Janesville, Wis., to Washington, D.C. Yep, he’s moving his family — all of ’em — to … Continue reading Mr. Ryan is moving to Washington<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[61,2183,2190,3101],"class_list":["post-38543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-2012-election","tag-house-of-representatives","tag-house-speaker","tag-mitt-romney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38545,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38543\/revisions\/38545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}