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Report: Boehner phones Paul Ryan, asks him to run for Speaker
Hot Air ^

Posted on 10/08/2015 1:53:35 PM PDT by Windy City Conservative

Hopefully that’s just a bluff Boehner is using to twist the arms of House conservatives who’d otherwise object to another center-right Speaker. Line up behind Ryan, Boehner is saying, or else I’ll stick around and make your lives even more miserable. What his leverage is in doing that isn’t immediately clear to me; wasn’t the whole reason he quit in the first place because he wasn’t sure he had the votes to survive the challenge being led by Rep. Mark Meadows to oust him? But maybe this little nudge will be enough to convince the Freedom Caucus to give Ryan a shot. Grassroots conservatives might not like that, as Ryan’s lost plenty of goodwill with them from his chumminess with Boehner and his 2013 budget deal with Patty Murray, but he seems to be well respected by most House tea partiers. I bet he’d get to 218 if he ran.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: Ohio; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: 114th; johnboehner; markmeadows; ohio; paulryan; speakerboehner; speakerjohnboehner; wisconsin
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To: Windy City Conservative

Sorry, but when Obama put Ryan in the front row of his budget speech, bitch slapped him and Ryan did not respond, that shows lack of leadership. He Shoulda turned the tables on the Chump in Chief full bore!


21 posted on 10/08/2015 2:08:14 PM PDT by griswold3 (Just another unlicensed nonconformist in am dangerous Liberal world.)
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To: Windy City Conservative

Rep.Paul Ryan is a numbers guy, not a leadership guy. The GOP shouldn’t push him into a job he, himself, says he doesn’t like.

Watch a Fox interview of Rep. Walter Jones done be Stupid Shepard. Jones is a member of the Freedom Caucus and pretty conservative. He said Boehner should have let the vote go on today as both Jason Chaffetz & Daniel Webster are good guys who are speaker material. Jones resisted the suggestion by Stup that a consensus [mid road] type is needed.


22 posted on 10/08/2015 2:08:22 PM PDT by RicocheT (Only a few prefer liberty--the majority seek nothing more than fair masters. Sallust, Histories)
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To: Windy City Conservative

Talk about you run of the mill kiss of death


23 posted on 10/08/2015 2:09:01 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (Idiocracy used to just be a Movie... Live every day as your last...one day you will be right)
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To: DannyTN
He was determined to cut the budget until it was balanced,

I didn't realize that but if so, my impression of Paul Ryan improved slightly although I never thought he was much of a conservative. But that's exactly what we need to do. We need to cut the budget, cut spending .. but also more importantly cut corporate and individual tax rates. Then to your point ... lower taxes will drive growth and help improve the economy.

24 posted on 10/08/2015 2:10:07 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: Windy City Conservative

Ryan is totally overrated.

He’s an Establishment guy who somehow gets massive credit for having a grasp of arithmetic.


25 posted on 10/08/2015 2:16:17 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: SeekAndFind

No, but he always looks sad enough to cry.


26 posted on 10/08/2015 2:16:42 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

“Bring back Newt.”

I would be okay with that.


27 posted on 10/08/2015 2:17:49 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Windy City Conservative

Just schedule a vote and go, Boehner. We can’t miss you if you won’t leave.


28 posted on 10/08/2015 2:18:14 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: Windy City Conservative

Bring in Allen West.


29 posted on 10/08/2015 2:21:57 PM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: Windy City Conservative


30 posted on 10/08/2015 2:26:58 PM PDT by Iron Munro (The wise have stores of choice food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has. Proverbs 21:20)
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To: Windy City Conservative

Mail a hankie to Boner.

Or a package of Kleenex.


31 posted on 10/08/2015 2:28:54 PM PDT by Iron Munro (The wise have stores of choice food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has. Proverbs 21:20)
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To: MrShoop

Aren’t we done with ‘he’s not as bad as the other?’ These guys are amnesty country destroying madmen whose motivations are stealth

They are stealth. And they are not ‘one is better than the other’. They are not working for us

Ok look at this Ryan’s character is such that he moved to include in a bill removing already promised military retirement income

If a business owner had contractually promised under signed contract retirement benefits under particular circumstances and then later moved to deny those benefits for his own reasons, redistributing that money wherever, he’d be breaching a contract

Paul Ryan does it to military retirees, who in this day, vast majority are war vets with years of deployment, just breaching contract with them. Is he working for them?

Now take it a step up. Ryan moved to include breaching contract with retirees widows. Military members voluntarily pay into a program where the military is under contract to provide widows with a
Part of the military guy’s retirement in case of his death, which goes away after he dies. The family pays for Spouse survivors benefits under agreement the surviving spouse will get paid after the retiree dies

Ryan included a reduction in that benefit

NOT. For new enrollees but for people already under contract.

Taking advantage of and ripping off military, who, if you asked to contribute to something, would. But in this case it would go to illegal aliens and others, such as congress people

The outrage was so severe he had to fold

How is that any better than a democrat?

How?


32 posted on 10/08/2015 2:29:44 PM PDT by stanne
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To: Psalm 144

Bonehead needs to leave today! So Bonehead ‘your Fired” and get the blank out of DC!


33 posted on 10/08/2015 2:35:47 PM PDT by hondact200 (politicians and diapers are similiar. They both have to be changed often for the very same reason)
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To: RicocheT

Rep Walter Jones is in the Liberty caucus, not Freedom. My error.


34 posted on 10/08/2015 2:43:01 PM PDT by RicocheT (Only a few prefer liberty--the majority seek nothing more than fair masters. Sallust, Histories)
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To: Windy City Conservative

35 posted on 10/08/2015 2:45:31 PM PDT by kabar
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To: Windy City Conservative

My hope is Ryan will now stop listening to the GOP-e.
The Tea Party put him in power...we can take it away.


36 posted on 10/08/2015 2:46:14 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: Windy City Conservative
Ryan, Cantor, and McCarthy co-authroed the book, Young Guns. They are cut from the same cloth.
37 posted on 10/08/2015 2:46:54 PM PDT by kabar
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To: Zathras

The Rea Party did not put Ryan in power.


38 posted on 10/08/2015 2:47:42 PM PDT by kabar
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To: Windy City Conservative

What is Boehner afraid of???


39 posted on 10/08/2015 2:51:14 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Beware the Wisconsin Weasel - GOPe Plan B)
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To: Windy City Conservative

NO MORE NORTHERNERS FOR SPEAKER.

Have enough of Hasterts and Boehners.


40 posted on 10/08/2015 2:57:06 PM PDT by bestintxas (every time a RINO loses, a founding father gets his wings.)
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