re: #34 Woods Witch

Ryan is spineless toady. He, and the rest of the republican caucus, think their job is to do the bidding of “dear leader”. For them the entire concept of the congress providing a check on the executive branch only applies if the president has a D after his or her name. Add to that the fact that the republicans have no desire to pass a DACA bill and the orange menace provides excellent cover

While I semi-agree with you here, I’m not sure Speaker Ryan, et. al. (outside of the House Wingnut Caucus) really give much of a crap about DACA: I think their main priority is to get a budget deal passed so they can:
1) Take (undeserved) credit for “solving” this year’s (self-inflicted) budget problem, and
2) Get to work on their more-important project of starting to chip away at any and all social programs - in the name of “budget discipline” of course.