Posted on 10/21/2015 7:57:49 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
In the private meeting inside the House Ways and Means Committee hearing room in the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday afternoon, chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) promised the House Freedom Caucus the world to try to earn their official endorsement. He failed.
Among the things that Ryan promised the members were a return to regular order, changes to the steering committee that decides committee assignments centralizing power in the Speakers officeRyan even promised to give up the Speakers five votes on the committeeand an end to retaliation against Republican members who vote their conscience.
He reiterated his promise made in the full GOP conference on Tuesday of no amnesty bill under President Obamawhich conspicuously did not extend to the next presidentand an end to crisis-to-crisis governance under outgoing Speaker Rep. John Boehner (R-OH). He also promised more regional representation rather than representation centralized in the Speakers office.
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That is why they will not vote for Ryan.
Ryan is an extremist FOR Amnesty and more immigration of foreign workers for American businesses. He is a gope suckup who used to say good things but now just mouths Party Pap from the gope.
I am calling to reject Ryan as Speaker.
If there are only 10 house Republicans willing to reject Ryan then the others shouldn't spend the next two years whining about him.
Given your position I am not being critical of you.
You reject Ryan, Boehner and Cruz, that is not inconsistent with my points here.
Ok
LOLO, do I detect a Trump chump??
If so where is he on this ?
I hear crickets from the man of Steel.
They may very well die quickly....but not SOON ENOUGH! Ryan lies, Ryan has lied, Ryan will lie again and again and again. He earns no trust from any. Like Cruz was hoodwinked by Mitchie McTurtle, the Freedom Caucus has been hoodwinked by Ryan. To low lifes who lie thru their clenched teeth.
Ryan has the votes. “Freedom” Caucus is DOA. I imagine they will fold back into the RSC because there is no longer any reason for it to exist.
He lies.
Good at lying? Know how to tell whoppers with a straight face?
Have we got high-paying jobs for you in Washinton, D.C.!!!
Apply now!
How can someone promise what will happen after the next election? The GOP may not even have the majority in the House then. Don’t be so short sighted.
President Trump will put a stop to that amnesty crap. Just as long as Ryan does not try to rama jam it through beforehand. We are probably stuck with Ryan as nobody else seems to want it or be able to get 218 votes.
Oh Cruz the scammer that co- wrote a column with La Raza Ryan about
the wonders of the selling out the US to a TPP tribunal or Voting for the Corker Iran treason Bill before being against it !
Cruz is alot like Ryan .A Con ,
That’s idiotic (especially the 65 Senator part, LOL so the GOP will lose every seat is has?), see every election ever.
Every voter is not an angry freeper who loves Trump but hates other Republicans to the point they’ll be voting democrat for everything else (like you I guess?) out of some kind of bizarre spite (you’d like Trump’s agenda to be DOA?).
You want to know the last election where one party gained back the White House but lost a Congressional majority it previously had, in either House? It happened once. 1848, Whig Z Taylor won a plurality in a 3-way race that he would have lost if it was a two-way race and the Whigs lost a FEW seats which cost them the TINY House majority they had won in 1846.
I’ll repeat. Dem House majority in 2016 is impossible by any other means than sizeable Dem POTUS coatails, Dem +5 for a Senate Majority is quite unlikely without Dem Potus coatails.
No need to wait for the next President. Let Obama proclaim amnesty.
Let the vote to defund it die at thee hans o a democrat Senate ilibuster.
Then fund it.
In that case, Ryan wouldn't have lied, would he?
Ryan out of power is a good thing.
Ryan is a traitor so dangerous that untold damaged will be done under his evil reign.
You cant get me on that. I am clearly not praising Cruz in fact I am critical of him and his followers on this Ryan thing.
I hope your prediction is wrong about dems taking over house, but with Ryan they would already have had done so de facto..
For the record, Paul Ryan’s lifetime American Conservative Union voting record is 90% conservative.
John Boehner’s lifetime ACU voting record is 83% conservative.
If the Freedom group cant support him as Speaker then they should reject him, not continue to play the same game they been playing since mid 2011.
I have no inside sources but the back-channel rumors are that the Freedom group members are scared of getting the blame if the GOP cant elect a new House Speaker, so they caved to Ryan's demands.
But I am seeing the “He lied to us” mantra is being started up already, and no Speaker election has taken place.
Broken record playing again.
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