Posted on 10/08/2015 1:53:35 PM PDT by Windy City Conservative
Hopefully that’s just a bluff Boehner is using to twist the arms of House conservatives who’d otherwise object to another center-right Speaker. Line up behind Ryan, Boehner is saying, or else I’ll stick around and make your lives even more miserable. What his leverage is in doing that isn’t immediately clear to me; wasn’t the whole reason he quit in the first place because he wasn’t sure he had the votes to survive the challenge being led by Rep. Mark Meadows to oust him? But maybe this little nudge will be enough to convince the Freedom Caucus to give Ryan a shot. Grassroots conservatives might not like that, as Ryan’s lost plenty of goodwill with them from his chumminess with Boehner and his 2013 budget deal with Patty Murray, but he seems to be well respected by most House tea partiers. I bet he’d get to 218 if he ran.
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Paul Ryan would be like John Boehner without the spray tan.
Boehner seems to be trying to control this
The vice grip these GOP amnesty liberals have on congress is annoying
They are outing all of their moles one at a time to see which if any is palatable to anyone, particularly in Congress...
Trial Balloon...
You don’t think that a case of spray tan preceded this schmooze?
NO!
Fuch paul ryan.
I am done with him. Fricking romney ass kissing clone.
Ryan would be better than Boehner, but he is far from the best choice.
“...Ryan is a total amnesty shill. He’s not the “smartest kid in the class”, he’s an over-rated enigma.”
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I agree, Ryan has revealed himself to be a GOPe operative.
Ugh! I think I hate Paul Ryan as much as I hate Boehner!
I remember him being interviewed on Mark Levin defending how the only budget cut congress made was was funding for disabled vets.
He was saying “Well..we had to cut somewhere...”
Bring back Newt.
The red pill, the blue pill...it don’t matter much. Same poison in all of ‘em.
RE: Paul Ryan would be like John Boehner without the spray tan.
At least he does not easily burst into tears.
Bingo!
Can Boehner stay as Speaker for ever?
Does his term end at certain point?
Ryan’s whole attitude on the budget was wrong.
He was determined to cut the budget until it was balanced, when the problem is that the economy is in the doldrums and there are way too many people unemployed.
Fix the economy and you don’t have to go after the commitments we’ve made in social security and Medicare.
For his next trick, John Boehner will attempt to control the tides.
“Vacate the Chair and force a vote.”
Exactly. Boehner at this point is a political corpse flopping around in the driver’s seat and in the way. Drag the carrion out, toss it in a ditch and select a new driver ASAP.
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