Moderate Republicans’ Threat: Paul Ryan for Speaker—or We Quit

The National Journal ^ | October 19, 2015 | Jack Fitzpatrick

[Timber Rattler]

Some Re­pub­lic­ans are so des­per­ate for Paul Ry­an to step up as the next speak­er of the House that they’ve star­ted talk­ing about re­tir­ing if he doesn’t, ac­cord­ing to a group that works on be­half of the House GOP’s more mod­er­ate mem­bers.

After Ry­an, those mem­bers have no second choice or even a second tier of po­ten­tial speak­ers, said Sarah Cham­ber­lain, chief op­er­at­ing and fin­an­cial of­ficer for the Re­pub­lic­an Main Street Part­ner­ship, a group that backs “main­stream” Re­pub­lic­ans and plans to spend mil­lions help­ing them pro­tect their House seats in 2016.

“De­pend­ing on how this shakes out, you may see some Main Street mem­bers re­tire,” Cham­ber­lain said in an in­ter­view. “… They’re hop­ing for a Ry­an-type can­did­ate. But if it’s not and it be­comes a huge mess, why be sit­ting here?”

[Timber Rattler]

[gaijin]

Great..!!

Quit...!!!

Thank you, bye.

[trisham]

Idiots.

[Norm Lenhart]

Don’t tease me like that.

[gorush]

Don’t let the door hit ya where the Good Lord split ya.

[ken5050]

We’ll help you pack and drive you to the airport..

[Cicero]

“It’s time to retire when the pork dries up!”

[INVAR]

That is our WHOLE PURPOSE - to get the Ruling Class Fascists OUT of their ivory towers of power.

WE WANT YOU SLIMES TO QUIT OR BE REPLACED!!!!!!!!

[Billthedrill]

Those a-holes retired in 2008. Or before.

[A CA Guy]

No Ryan and no capitulation.

[HarleyLady27]

OH GOOD!!! I have one word for all of you spineless sissies: QUIT!!!!!!!!!!!!! or how about this:

YOUR FIRED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[aynrandfreak]

From the ‘most likely to be primaried anyway’ group

[Calpublican]

As is often the case, I may have missed the point.

Doesn’t a “threat” mean something bad will follow if demands are not met?

[TexasCruzin]

Please let that be a real threat.

[nicepaco]

That is sweet. I gotta say having 2 parties will be great even if ours is minority for a long time.

[hal ogen]

I hope all these RINO asses quit. Good riddance to traitors to their oaths of office and to their electorate. Liars and criminals.

[stylin_geek]

Something about a briar patch and tossing...sort of escapes me at the moment..seems to apply to this situation.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Okay. Sold. Quit.

[lee martell]

Is that a promise or a threat? I hope this is not being said to make me upset, because, on the contrary, I’m feeling more confident that we will be cleaning house!
Hit the road Jack!!

[chulaivn66]

Weak links in the chain will and have failed. “Go ahead. Make my day”.