Posted on 10/27/2015 7:45:15 AM PDT by snowcloud
Contrary to Republican establishment propaganda, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) is not reliably conservative. He has strayed so far from the conservative mainstream that his recent voting record alone ought to instantly disqualify him from consideration as the next speaker of the House.
He is the wrong man at the wrong time. If Ryan ends up wielding the speaker's gavel, the low-intensity civil war bubbling in the Grand Old Party may quickly go nuclear.
And the fact that Ryan wants to make veteran Beltway lobbyist David Hoppe his chief of staff in the speaker's office should concern conservatives. Ryan describes his fellow Wisconsinite as "a foot soldier in the conservative movement," but Hoppe also reportedly "has a record of working across the aisle" when working across the aisle means working against conservatives. As the Washington Examiner reports:
He currently serves as a senior advisor to the Bipartisan Policy Center, a nonprofit founded by former Senate Majority Leaders Howard Baker and Bob Dole, both Republicans, and Tom Daschle and George Mitchell, both Democrats, in 2007 to foster cooperation between congressional Democrats and Republicans.
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For the life of me I cannot understand why this choice is being made. We might as well have offered the position to Nancy Pelosy.
I really hope this does not stand, I really think that perhaps Bohner would be better.
Well, Ryan is only speaker for the rest of this Congress right? A new speaker will be elected after the Nov. 2016 elections, right?? The GOP is virtually certain to still be in control of the House of Reps. after the Nov. 2016 elections. You figure too, at that time, we will know who the new president will be. If a Republican is elected president, could that effect who might be elected speaker then?
Just saying, looks like we’re stuck with Ryan at least until the next election.
Ryan sucks ‘Rat nads like the oompah-loompah ...
The reason this choice is being made is that there is nobody else who wants the job that can get 218 votes. They are stuck.
Boehner never would have resigned except that the fix was in to get Ryan and open borders in anyway.
This country is so full of corruption and graft, that I no longer recognize it as my country.
Our society is being pushed to its own destruction.
This from Canada?
Like they demonstrate good judgement these days.
World, meet handbasket. Jump in...we are all going to hell.
Poor thing. This is his last ditch effort to make POTUS.
If anyone is wondering what it feels like to lose a war and live under enemy occupation. It’s something like this.
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