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Many media outlets are saying "Paul Ryan Retires" (For example, Vox's original headline.) This doesn't mean he won't still be there until the new Congress is seated in January 2019.
Vox reports:
More and more Republicans are looking at how the 2018 elections are shaping up and deciding they want no part of them--with Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Rep. Dennis Ross (R-FL) just the latest to announce they won't run for reelection this year.
This makes 25 House Republicans and three GOP senators who are calling it quits, not counting several more who are stepping down to run for another political office (or who have already resigned). That's the highest such number[1] for just one party in decades.
Revealingly, only nine House Democrats and zero Democratic senators have so far made the same choice. (Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota resigned due to scandal, but his seat has already been filled by Tina Smith, who will run this fall.) That's a dramatic discrepancy.
Though the explanations offered for these decisions differ, and though many of these GOP-held seats are in no real danger of flipping to Democrats, these retirements are revealing how members of Congress currently view the national political environment. That is: they think there's a real possibility of a Democratic wave.
But the trend is more meaningful even than that. These very retirements could help make such a wave even bigger, because it's generally easier for the opposition party to flip open seats than it is to knock off incumbents.
[...] According to FiveThirtyEight's numbers,[2] the only time in the past 40 years there's been a bigger partisan discrepancy in [the who's not running for reelection stats] was 2008, which turned out to be a Democratic wave year.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 12 2018, @07:51PM
You have it backwards.
(It's not like the relationship between Fox so-called News and The GOP.)
The official media outlet of The Socialist Equality Party is The World Socialist Web Site.
As for WSWS's message, if you think about it for about half a minute, you'll realize that brown people with no money and no political power aren't the source of the world's problems.
The problem is inequality: concentration of wealth (and the political power that comes with that; Thomas Pikitty wrote a 696-page book about it).
There's a list of problem-makers (insanely rich individuals and global Capitalistic operations) on this page. [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [dissidentvoice.org]
Those have no loyalty to any nation and no concern for the wellbeing of Mother Earth.
They exist only to extract profit.
The greatest threat to Democracy is Capitalism.
Brilliant guy Michael Parenti [wikiquote.org] has a great 20something minute talk where he lays it out.
Capitalism’s Apocalypse [tucradio.org]
Of late, more of his brilliance on various topics has been presented at TUC Radio. [tucradio.org]
I wish I could find a link to a gratis copy of his "On Democracy" thing (via AlternativeRadio).
That's mostly about how Capitalism is destroying it.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]