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PAUL RYAN NOMINATED GOP SPEAKER CANDIDATE, BUT FAILS TO REACH 218-VOTE THRESHOLD FOR FLOOR VOTE
Breitbart ^ | October 28, 2015 | Matthew Boyle

Posted on 10/28/2015 1:03:59 PM PDT by Kenny

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) won the first round of votes for the job of House Speaker, but 45 Republican legislators voted against him.

Those 45 members are enough to block him from getting the Speakership during the partisan floor vote on Thursday — if the 45 GOP legislators maintain their opposition, and if Ryan is not aided by a last-minute bloc of Democratic votes.

During the closed-door conference, Ryan won just 200 votes for the nomination. Former Florida House Speaker Rep. Daniel Webster (R-FL) earned a whopping 43 votes. Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)—who isn’t officially running for Speaker—received one vote. House Majority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), who dropped out of the Speakership race a couple weeks ago, got one vote as well.

The failure on Ryan’s part to win 218 votes—the threshold for anyone to win the Speakership on the House floor assuming every member of the House is present and voting for a person—is a major embarrassment on his part.

The question now becomes whether Ryan will be able to get at 18 of the 45 Republican votes he lost to get behind him on the floor on Thursday. If he can’t succeed by the first ballot, the election could go to a second ballot on the floor—which would likely lead to Ryan’s demise.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: amnestypimp; illegals; rino; ryan
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To: CincyRichieRich

Let the Rino’s have their Speaker with the Stain of dhimmi votes. That will keep the proper perspective on things during the election cycle to keep the people’she memory aflame.


21 posted on 10/28/2015 1:12:59 PM PDT by epluribus_2 (he had the best mom - ever.)
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To: Kenny

He said he was happy with Ways and Means.
He said he didn’t really want the speaker job unless every one of his peers gave him a unanimous standing ovation, carried him on their shoulders shouting Huzzah! over-and-over and sang “For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow” three times in a row ...
That ain’t gonna happen, but hey, he wants the job anyway.
So we’re off to a good start with Orange-Man’s Mini-me.


22 posted on 10/28/2015 1:13:02 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Kenny

Hurrah! Elect Dan Webster!


23 posted on 10/28/2015 1:13:04 PM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: All

We’ll see soon enough. This smells, looks, and sounds like kabuki theater prior to the Grand Kneepad Procession planned for tomorrow.


24 posted on 10/28/2015 1:13:08 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Voting is self-abuse - without the pleasure.)
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To: Kenny

Anyone that doesn’t think Ryan was part of budget & debt limit deal is a fool.


25 posted on 10/28/2015 1:13:12 PM PDT by TexasCajun (#BlackViolenceMatters)
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To: FourPeas

Let’s see how those 45 vote tomorrow. There will not be 20 that vote against Ryan then.


26 posted on 10/28/2015 1:13:34 PM PDT by Founding Father (The Pedophile moHAMmudd (PBUH---Pigblood be upon him))
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To: Kenny

Didn’t Ryan say he would only take the job with unified House GOP support?? (and no conditions?)

Well this is a rejection Paul.

Walk away, no run away.

What a phony!


27 posted on 10/28/2015 1:13:38 PM PDT by sickoflibs (Donald Trump : 'It will be wonderful. It will be glorious., You will be amazed, Just wait"')
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To: epluribus_2

Oh, she’d be one of the first ones to get shaved. The whole rotted, kleptocratic post-war order is close to collapse. There is not much left to steal, of either wealth or freedom. They are all ancien regime.

Je sui Defarge.


28 posted on 10/28/2015 1:14:33 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (The mill grinds exceedingly fine.)
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To: Kenny

He’ll need Dems to vote, so the tax purse is open....................


29 posted on 10/28/2015 1:16:24 PM PDT by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: Uncle Miltie

I think there is information on Gowdy we haven’t found yet, something had to have happened for him to turn like this all of a sudden, right after Kevin McCarthy stepped down as speaker position....but I can’t find it, and I have looked!!!


30 posted on 10/28/2015 1:16:37 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 (I have such happy days, and hope you do too!!!)
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To: 11th_VA
Unity is a one way street with the GOPe ...

Exactly! Imagine what we could accomplish if they took this no compromise, no retreat, no almost with our enemies instead of with us.

31 posted on 10/28/2015 1:17:26 PM PDT by Kenny (RED)
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To: CincyRichieRich
They are likely playing some pre-scripted game and it is all decided already.

Someone finally gets it.

Welcome to the coup. It happened while we were all wishfully thinking that voting the GOP into power would stop us from being fundamentally transformed into a Marxist/Fascist tyranny.

We failed to understand that the coup was completed and all of our reps are being given offers they cannot refuse.

They know where the power is going to lie - and they will do everything they can to share in it.

32 posted on 10/28/2015 1:17:40 PM PDT by INVAR ("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Gowdy needs to see this....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gN6sNp0b1WE


33 posted on 10/28/2015 1:17:51 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: LibFreeUSA

Really?


34 posted on 10/28/2015 1:18:29 PM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11 HillaryForPrison2016)
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To: Kenny

Get back to me if they actually don’t elect him.


35 posted on 10/28/2015 1:19:03 PM PDT by RIghtwardHo
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To: ChildOfThe60s

rINO is an over used term. Try Republican Statist. It is very accurate.


36 posted on 10/28/2015 1:19:31 PM PDT by Eva
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To: Kenny; Jane Long; PROCON; Catsrus; All



37 posted on 10/28/2015 1:19:40 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Kenny

honestly I am amazed. I thought the fix was in..

Still might be but this slows him down.


38 posted on 10/28/2015 1:20:39 PM PDT by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house....)
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To: INVAR

They are likely playing some pre-scripted game and it is all decided already.

Someone finally gets it.


You’ll likely be one of few to appreciate my other post today:

Hillary tells Colbert: ‘Yes yes yes’ I would let big banks fail
10/28/2015, 9:04:20 AM · 22 of 24
CincyRichieRich to Libloather

Folks should break out some Solzhenitsyn works like the Gulag Archipelago and read just a few pages to understand the very people like Hitlary and Zer0 are the Bolsheviks who hated the Tsarists...once in power they are the new Tsarists who have all the money and power and they believe they give the people their rights. Anyone other than maybe Trump, Cruz and Carson (Cruz #1, Trump #2, Carson #3) would take our rights away. Any candidate who does not think God gives rights should be feared...this is why I hesitate a bit on Trump.


39 posted on 10/28/2015 1:21:23 PM PDT by CincyRichieRich (Some Animals are more equal than others.)
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To: Kenny

Why the issues with this post subject?


40 posted on 10/28/2015 1:21:59 PM PDT by nomad
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