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Paul Ryan Officially Running for Speaker
CNN ^ | Thursday, October 22, 2015 | Deirdre Walsh and Jeremy Diamond

Posted on 10/22/2015 4:53:57 PM PDT by kristinn

Rep. Paul Ryan announced Thursday that he is officially running for speaker of the House, and he is likely to be elected next week.

"I never thought I'd be speaker," Ryan said in a statement. "But I pledged to you that if I could be a unifying figure, then I would serve -- I would go all in. After talking with so many of you, and hearing your words of encouragement, I believe we are ready to move forward as a one, united team. And I am ready and eager to be our speaker."

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: amnesty; chamberofamnesty; chamberofcommerce; illegals; openborders; paulryan; rino; sanctuarycities; uniparty
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To: zzeeman

Regardless, it just cements the idea that the GOP, as a whole, is feckless, spineless and unprincipled.

If nobody ran because they ‘might lose’, what good are they in the ‘battles’ of principles, ideals and constitutionality vs. the pResident and the DEMs??

Not ONE had the balls to go up against their OWN party, let alone the ‘opposition’, for FEAR of repercussions/losing chairmanships/heads-at-table...the PERKS of office.

Slimy, gutless M.F.s, all of them.


101 posted on 10/23/2015 6:59:01 AM PDT by i_robot73 ("A man chooses. A slave obeys." - Andrew Ryan)
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To: kristinn

His first act is a lie.

Way to go, GOP-E. You’ve elected Eddie Munster.


102 posted on 10/23/2015 7:12:28 AM PDT by Colonel_Flagg ("Therefore, Sir, I tell you again ... you are necessitated to BREAK them.")
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To: SkyPilot

What makes WI people think Ryan is so special: his district is mostly Democrat, isn’t it? Same with Webster of FL


103 posted on 10/23/2015 7:26:43 AM PDT by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: i_robot73

Can’t argue with that, any of it.


104 posted on 10/23/2015 7:30:22 AM PDT by zzeeman ("We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.")
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To: kristinn

I’m not really paying attention to this any more since all of Washington’s politics are worthless, but would like to know more about what is going on.

Was there a viable alternative to run against Paul Ryan that would have garnered more than 5 votes? I’m not sure who announced as candidates. Did anyone from the Freedom Caucus step up to lead? If not, why not? Why did the founders of the Freedom Caucus line up behind Ryan? Where is that powerful conservative voice willing to take this on? I don’t see one.

I guess I don’t see a whole lot in the way of alternatives. Boehner being gone is good but I don’t think the elephant can be swallowed in one bite.


105 posted on 10/23/2015 7:39:07 AM PDT by gore_sux (Ellison's Minnesotastan = America's terrorist training haven)
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To: Starboard
All those who think a third party cannot work should ponder the implications of what we now have in the Republican Party. The Party of Weakness and Excuses.

Amen!

106 posted on 10/23/2015 9:28:08 AM PDT by pgkdan (But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: Fungi
Call everyone on the Freedom Caucus and urge a no vote. Start with Mark Meadows. Lyin’ Ryan is a fraud.

Won't make a difference. The whole House votes for Speaker and he'll get enough democrat votes to put him over the top. Hell...Harry Reid is supporting him, that's a message to House 'Rats to make sure he gets the votes.

107 posted on 10/23/2015 9:31:51 AM PDT by pgkdan (But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: Theodore R.

Bennett....book of virtues fraud.


108 posted on 10/23/2015 10:58:01 AM PDT by LongWayHome
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Cheesehead BUMP!


109 posted on 10/23/2015 4:42:59 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (I am going to get those guns out of peoples hands. - Hillary Clinton 10/05/2015)
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To: kristinn

sanity prevails against irrational negative exhuberance


110 posted on 10/23/2015 4:44:37 PM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ....carson is the kinder gentler trump)
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To: wardaddy

Please don’t call me dear. I don’t respond well to condescension.

My comment wasn’t meant to be taken as a stab in your eye I was just trying to say all the Catholics I know are conservative to the bone and are over the illegal takeover of our country. And Ryan, I don’t have the time nor do I want to say what I really think of him. Let’s just say he needs to go home and “spend more time with his family.”


111 posted on 10/24/2015 9:50:46 AM PDT by Lil Flower (American by birth. Southern by the Grace of God. ROLL TIDE!!)
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To: Lil Flower

Given you’re good on pitbulls

I have a white one too

And you’re a chick in Georgia

I hope yer not a Yankee transplant

And I hope for your sake you’re not in Atlanta

I am going to be sweet

I got tee boned in Ringold last night by a drunk in my truck

No fooling

I was in Big Canoe last night

You will have to admit a freeper who calls herself little flower doesn’t like being addressed feminine is a bit inconsistent

Are u southern.,,,don’t lie


112 posted on 10/24/2015 10:14:23 AM PDT by wardaddy (The establishment needs destroying)
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To: wardaddy
Ok. I chose little flower because that is what my favorite Saint is called, St Therese, the little flower. Georgia? Read my tag line, Roll Tide!! Born and raised Heart of Dixie. Moved to Mississippi in 2001. I'm 35 minutes from the coast. Can't get much more Southern than that, War Daddy.😊 My bully's my baby. Laying by me right now. He's a little more on guard than normal cause his Mama just had surgery, so he's sticking close and following me everywhere I go. But really he's just a big sweetheart.
113 posted on 10/26/2015 7:40:13 PM PDT by Lil Flower (American by birth. Southern by the Grace of God. ROLL TIDE!!)
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To: wardaddy

And I’m sorry to hear you were in an accident. I hope your ok.


114 posted on 10/26/2015 7:41:42 PM PDT by Lil Flower (American by birth. Southern by the Grace of God. ROLL TIDE!!)
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