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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: stanne
How is that any better than a democrat?

How?

You only have to look back to speaker pelosi to understand how democrats are worse. A democrat would cut military spending and raise taxes and raise domestic spending,

41 posted on 10/08/2015 2:57:27 PM PDT by Wayne07
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To: Windy City Conservative

Another case of the blind leading the blind.


42 posted on 10/08/2015 2:58:56 PM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: kabar

a picture of a loser, a bigger loser, and a coward.


43 posted on 10/08/2015 2:58:58 PM PDT by bestintxas (every time a RINO loses, a founding father gets his wings.)
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To: Windy City Conservative

Next they will want to bring back Cantor.


44 posted on 10/08/2015 3:03:16 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: MrShoop

“...You only have to look back to speaker pelosi to understand how democrats are worse. A democrat would cut military spending and raise taxes and raise domestic spending...”

Ok. Well there are many who believe that that is reserved for democrats. Many otgers see that not only do republicans do this, but this particular congress not only does it, but enables democrats to do it, and make the environment rich for furthering the dem agenda. Romney would have gone after Hillarys Benghazi misdeeds in someone’s dream only, and ushered in eight years

I digress What I describe in my post is Paul Ryan reducing military budget. And by breaching contract with war vets and their survivors.

You are wasting my time


45 posted on 10/08/2015 3:07:45 PM PDT by stanne
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To: Windy City Conservative

Ryan is indeed a Boehner clone. Only difference between the two is one’s orange and one isn’t.


46 posted on 10/08/2015 3:10:32 PM PDT by Kevin in California
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To: Windy City Conservative

Paul Ryan has already officially bowed out:

https://www.google.com/search?q=paul+ryan+speaker&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8#q=paul+ryan+speaker&tbm=nws


47 posted on 10/08/2015 3:19:13 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: conservativegranny

“Paul Ryan would be like John Boehner without the spray tan”.

Ryan is an establishment wimp.


48 posted on 10/08/2015 3:24:10 PM PDT by NKP_Vet (In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle,stand like a rock ~ T, Jefferson)
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To: Windy City Conservative

Toasty, Ryan is.


49 posted on 10/08/2015 3:37:59 PM PDT by Paladin2 (my non desktop devices are no longer allowed to try to fix speling and punctuation, nor my gran-mah.)
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To: gov_bean_ counter
What is Boehner afraid of???

Pink elephants. And spiders.

50 posted on 10/08/2015 3:40:04 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'll vote for Jeb when Terri Schiavo endorses him.)
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To: Windy City Conservative
It's one thing to Vacate the Chair.

But then the House is in session, on the floor, until another speaker is elected.

And that floor debate and voting is not limited to the majority party.

A vacate motion is only good if you have 218 votes in your pocket for somebody else.

And, it appears, there are not 218 votes for anyone.

51 posted on 10/08/2015 3:45:36 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18 - Be The Leaderless Resistance)
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To: Windy City Conservative

I hope Boehner has one too many fingers of Glenlivet and falls down his stairs.


52 posted on 10/08/2015 3:46:36 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: MrShoop
Ryan may be worse.

That Paul La Raza Ryan is a Huge Liar mocked everyone who stated that TPP was a cheap foreign labor Scheme.
As it turns out TPP is a cheap foreign labor scheme.

Ryan needs to be tar and feathered and drag thru Potomac .

He is fully owned by Adelson , the Las Vegas cheap labor Lib billionaire !

53 posted on 10/08/2015 3:49:09 PM PDT by ncalburt ( Amnesty-media out in full force)
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To: kabar
Should be retitled :

K Street Whores .

54 posted on 10/08/2015 3:51:37 PM PDT by ncalburt ( Amnesty-media out in full force)
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To: Windy City Conservative
 
 
Vacate the Chair and force a vote.
 
 
DITTO - begone Corrupt Crying Cheeto - stop gumming up the works, bedeviling our system. That needs to be the next task for the House - get that bum out, NOW
 
 
 
 
 
 

55 posted on 10/08/2015 4:14:03 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: kabar

I didn’t know/realize that that gang of three were true conservative politicians. I’ll have to get a new set of glasses for my nearly 90 years. First of all I want to find out if either of the three actually carried a gun in the defense of the US.


56 posted on 10/08/2015 4:18:08 PM PDT by noinfringers2
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To: Windy City Conservative

Aww, hell NO. Ryan was rolled by supergenius Patty Murray on the last budget deal. He’s worthless.


57 posted on 10/08/2015 4:20:11 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution.)
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To: kabar

none of them are / were young


58 posted on 10/08/2015 4:24:02 PM PDT by sunrise_sunset
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To: stanne

What’s a waste of time is the self pitying hyperbole that keeps people from discerning grey and white.


59 posted on 10/08/2015 4:28:56 PM PDT by Wayne07
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To: noinfringers2

None did. They just call themselves the Young Guns.


60 posted on 10/08/2015 4:37:47 PM PDT by kabar
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