Get ready for a Weepy Weekend for Speaker Ryan and the Republican establishment.
Weekend Reading:
“To paraphrase Eminem, I think this is what it’s like when a tornado meets a volcano,” said Kelly Ward, executive director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. “The spinning disaster that is the Republican establishment has met the fire-spewing Donald, and the Republican Party is promptly melting down upon impact.” [Politico, 3/3/16]
- Politico: “The day the Republican Party ruptured.”
- New York Times: “As Donald Trump Rolls Up Victories, the G.O.P. Split Widens to a Chasm.”
- Associated Press: “Clinton, Trump cemented as 2016 leaders; GOP desperate.”
- Politico: “Trump: Ryan will get along or ‘pay a big price.’”
- Politico: “GOP freakout goes from bad to worse.”
- Washington Post editorial: “Now is the time for Mr. Ryan and other GOP leaders to disavow Mr. Trump.”
- New York Times: “Paul Ryan Faces Tea Party Forces That He Helped Unleash.”
- Washington Post’s Plum Line: “How Trump could blow up the GOP without winning the nomination.”
- Politico: “Welcome to the GOP civil war.”
- New York Times editorial: “Mitt Romney Aims at Donald Trump, Hits G.O.P.”
- The Hill: “GOP could lose Congress with Trump: strategist.”
- Roll Call: “Romney, Trump Spar Over Future of GOP.”