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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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!
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.
Talk about you run of the mill kiss of death
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.
Ryan is totally overrated.
He’s an Establishment guy who somehow gets massive credit for having a grasp of arithmetic.
No, but he always looks sad enough to cry.
“Bring back Newt.”
I would be okay with that.
Just schedule a vote and go, Boehner. We can’t miss you if you won’t leave.
Bring in Allen West.
Mail a hankie to Boner.
Or a package of Kleenex.
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?
Bonehead needs to leave today! So Bonehead ‘your Fired” and get the blank out of DC!
Rep Walter Jones is in the Liberty caucus, not Freedom. My error.
My hope is Ryan will now stop listening to the GOP-e.
The Tea Party put him in power...we can take it away.
The Rea Party did not put Ryan in power.
What is Boehner afraid of???
NO MORE NORTHERNERS FOR SPEAKER.
Have enough of Hasterts and Boehners.
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