[DoodleDawg]

Early contenders for the post are House Financial Services Committee chairman Jeb Hensarling and House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan. Both men are more conservative at their core than Cantor, who often made colleagues think he was a conservative of convenience rather than conviction.

I don't see Ryan giving up his Budget Committee for Majority leader. For Speaker, yes. McCarthy is the whip, he is the traditional 'next in line' for the leaders post. I'd bet he gets it, since the establishment still runs the show.

[Servant of the Cross]

McCarthy is the whip, he is the traditional 'next in line' for the leaders post. I'd bet he gets it, since the establishment still runs the show.

I think this will be the 'test'. I like Hensarling for Speaker and I hope that he has enough House backing and his own Majority Leader in mind to oust McCarthy too.