PAUL RYAN NOMINATED GOP SPEAKER CANDIDATE, BUT FAILS TO REACH 218-VOTE THRESHOLD FOR FLOOR VOTE

Breitbart ^ | October 28, 2015 | Matthew Boyle

[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.

[katykelly]

I just saw Jim Jordan on Cavuto . He said the freedom caucus will be voting for Ryan tomorrow .

[Cold Heat]

The Dems will make sure he gets it...

No doubt in my military mind...

[Eva]

It is over, they caved and elected him after he promised not to let any immigration bill ass the house floor while Obama is President. It doesn’t matter though because they funded Obsma’s executive orders.

[nicepaco]

Democrats have endorsed Ryan and could be counted on to support him. Ryan is a Uniparty superstar!

[bigbob]

calling BS on this, now way are there 45 principled conservatives in the House! It’s something else.

[pabianice]

The Whig Party was a political party active in the middle of the 19th century in the United States of America. Many of the early Presidents of the United States were members of the Whig Party.[1] Along with the rival Democratic Party, it was central to the Second Party System from the early 1830s to the mid-1850s.[2] It formed in opposition to the policies of President Andrew Jackson (in office 1829–37) and his Democratic Party. In particular, the Whigs supported the supremacy of Congress over the Presidency and favored a program of modernization, banking and economic protectionism to stimulate manufacturing. It appealed to entrepreneurs and planters, but had few subsistence farmers or unskilled workers.

It included many active Protestants, and voiced a moralistic opposition to the Jacksonian Indian removal policies.

[INVAR]

Exactly.

History teaches that all Statist regimes must eradicate the self-governing and individualistic religions of the bible, and make themselves god.

Collectivists are given a pass until such time as the State must be seen as the only object of worship permitted.

Those who understand our rights come from God, and therefore not subject to the dictates of men, are seen as a threat - and must be dealt with.

[Iron Munro]

Déjà vu all over again

MEET THE NEW BOSS - SAME AS THE OLD BOSS

We’ll be fighting in the streets
With our children at our feet
And the morals that they worship will be gone

And the men who spurred us on
Sit in judgment of all wrong
They decide and the shotgun sings the song

I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the changes all around

Lock and load my old M1 and pray
Just like yesterday
Then I’ll get on my knees and pray

.....We don’t get fooled again

The change, it had to come
We knew it all along
We were liberated from the fold, that’s all

But the world looks just the same
And history ain’t changed
‘Cause the bastards already planning the next war

Now there’s nothing in the streets
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye

And the parting on the left
Are now parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight

I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the changes all around

Lock and load my old M1 and pray
Just like yesterday
Then I’ll get on my knees and pray

.....We don’t get fooled again

[RitaOK]

Okay, I’m pretty done with Gowdy, now. I was as big of a fan as anyone. I expect Trey will go home after this miserable term in Congress, anyway.

But, no, I’m not supporting boobs for more establishment gridlock and cram downs.

Bye, Trey.

[Vermont Lt]

If I were Ryan, I would delightfully flip them the bird and leave the room.

[Vermont Lt]

It ain’t Gowdy...it was McCarthy.

[RitaOK]

Ryan needs to stick to budget and debt limit, since we’re going to need plenty of money and a heck of a lot of China loans for to pay for Ryan’s intentions to usher in blanket AMNESTY.

[so_real]

Watch the Dems "reach across the aisle" to support Boehner, er, I mean, Ryan. But watch even more closely and you'll see "just barely enough" of them cross over to do so.

[Vermont Lt]

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

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Having an adult and someone who frequents this site actually type those words is simply amazing.

He probably believes in the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus too.

The entire Congress is corrupt. Not just the Dems. Not just the Rinos. ALL of THEM.

He/she probably thinks her vote counts.

[paratrooper82]

I agree 100%. This dog and pony show is to give cover to the few who will be coming up for reelection and claim to be the “Tea Party” caucus.

Watch how many liberal socialist cross the isle and vote for RINO Ryan!

That boat has sailed! The same dog and pony show being played out in front of the American people where Ryan comes out against the budget deal yesterday, then today, is in favor of it, just doesn't like the way the budget was put together (the process)! That was suppose to give Ryan cover with the Tea Party who opposes the budget deal. Washington is nothing more than one big soap opera with a daily script for the benefit of the American people who no longer see any differences between the two parties!

[Georgia Girl 2]

I think the main problem of the conservatives is they don’t have anybody to put up that can get the 218 votes. They are eventually going to get stuck with Ryan.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Gowdy, for all his skill in humbling Hillary, is a pro amnesty corporatist.

[RitaOK]

Just keep in mind that even in sacred scripture that God used, and continues to use, other than saints, prophets and angels to work his saving will for the sake of His people, the people of God.

I believe, personally, imho, that God and Greyhound both know that no outspoken Christian can ever be elected president in secular America.

Trump passes my test against abortion. I can vote for him. It’s an answer to prayer. I think he is the only one who is Force enough to have hopes of changing anything.

If he should be taken down by the COMPLEX, who else could stand against such forces. That is, except for the Establishment candidate whom the UniParty lets pass through the gap they have created for him.

Besides, the Republican Party is for Hillary. That’s how bad it truly is.

[isthisnickcool]

Dammit man! Trey (seen above) is a former prosecutor! He is a skilled lawyer! He is so super serial awesome he can give himself his own haircut.

Trey says: "Grr, Grr, yap!, yap! - run away!"

[RitaOK]

HA! He’s late on that bird thing. They already flipped him off. lol.

Ryan will have to crawl through the morally bankrupt back door on the hips of the Pelosi Marxists. That is his ticket.

They bought him and he bought them, on guaranteeing blanket AMNESTY.

Our last defense is gone. We are all South America now.