Posted on 10/09/2015 11:58:50 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Republicans have urged Paul Ryan to step up for House Speaker in an attempt to bring unity to the GOP caucus. He may already be having that effect. After a mid-morning caucus conference, two potential rivals publicly endorsed the Ways and Means chair for the post, including formally declared candidate Jason Chaffetz:
Chaffetz, who launched his Speaker bid last weekend, said he’d end his bid if Ryan heeds the call to enter the race.
“I’m a huge fan of Paul Ryan. I would support Paul Ryan,” Chaffetz told reporters.
“Part of the reason I got into the race was because people like Paul Ryan weren’t stepping up to do it,” added Chaffetz, the House Oversight Committee chairman.
Ditto, says Darrell Issa, who appeared on Morning Joe earlier to talk up his own potential candidacy and throw shade at Chaffetz. Issa says he also only considered running for it because Ryan had demurred. Issa also says that he’s hearing from Freedom Caucus members that Ryan would be acceptable to them, potentially ending the impasse among House Republicans:
California Rep. Darrell Issa, who had entertained the idea of entering the race himself earlier on Friday morning, said after the meeting that he did “everything except carry his gym bag this morning” in trying to convince Ryan to throw his name into the ring.
“The fact is, Paul Ryan is the right man right now, he has moderate support and he very clearly has conservative support,” Issa said. “Members of the Freedom Caucus have come to me one after the other saying, ‘Let Paul know we would be with him.’ That’s a very good sign after the strained relations that John Boehner had with that same caucus.”
Mia Love says she’s holding out for Trey Gowdy, but he seems immovable on the subject:
“I’m going to keep asking him to run,” Rep. Mia Love, R-Utah, said on Thursday of her pleas to Gowdy.
CNN says that several Republicans are now openly saying that Ryan is considering it now:
Rep. Paul Ryan is telling House Republicans privately he is considering running for speaker, several members say.
Ryan informed several members on the House floor of his deliberations, Rep. Chris Stewart, R-Utah, told CNN. Stewart added that he urged Ryan to run, with the Wisconsin Republican replaying that he was “thinking and praying on it.” …
Rep. Darrell Issa, R-California, said that Ryan told him privately he is thinking about it as well. “I think he’s gone from a hard no to he knows he has to consider it,” he said.
Issa’s right about the point made in the video above. Ryan — or whoever takes this thankless post — will need to get 240 votes before jumping in to take it, and not just for personal vanity. The next Speaker has to get investment from all the factions in the House Republican caucus, or it’ll be nothing more than a repeat of Boehner’s tenure the last few years. If the Freedom Caucus will accept Ryan, then it makes sense to ask him to step up for the good of the party. Perhaps the reluctance Ryan has for this endeavor will also pressure everyone into giving him some space to operate for a while, too.
If Ryan passes, though, Gowdy had better expect a lot of attention from his cohorts in Congress.
Who gets Ryno’s chairmanship of the House Ways and means?
Ryan= Rino dumb ass and that widow’s peak is stupid looking.
What I am surprised about is Issa paving the way for another RINO to lead, when he always sort of seemed to be more conservative at least during the hearings for the IRS or Benghazi scandals.
Chaffetz, Issa so called rightwingers, bull $&^% rolling over for a RINO....f’m all!
Yes. Particularly if Boehner does not leave on Oct. 30, in which case Congress must force him to leave.
Ryan is an amnesty pimp ..period! Luis Guitterz just endorsed him! This sucks
More kabuki from kabukiville.
And by that i mean suck choice 1 and suck choice 2 will step aside for suck choice 3. The appearance of like theres any differences.
Oh, this isn't going to end well. It was never going to end well.
Frankly, I don't know that there are any actual conservatives in the Congress.
From the article:
he very clearly has conservative support,” Issa said. “Members of the Freedom Caucus have come to me one after the other saying, ‘Let Paul know we would be with him.’
BINGO!
Oh no, two liberal RINO’s moving out of the way for a bigger liberal RINO.
Chaffetz-Dukakis and Issa-the-Corrupt (protector
of Clinton and Obama) are undocumented Democrats.
They are criminal enablers, complicit 100%.
The media, of course, is touting “Chaos in the Republican House of Reps”.
There is no chaos, it’s more like excitement and gratitude that Boehner is stepping aside.
No-one is insulting anybody. There is no chaos. This will be resolved. We may not like the result - but it won’t be Boehner. Just some young new blood who may seek better advice and realize he is the people’s advocate. Not Obama’s, not Harry Reid’s and certainly not the media.
Ryan, the guy who made Joe Biden look like a MENSA member.
Talk Show Host Mark Levin always refers to this site as a reference:
THE CONSERVATIVE REVIEW:
https://www.conservativereview.com/Members/Scorecard/p/400351
The site has a Liberty Score ranking.
The Liberty Score® grades members of Congress on the top 50 votes over the past six years. The rolling six-year window shows a more accurate picture of a lawmaker’s performance than the traditional one or two-year scoring methods. The Liberty Score® empowers conservatives to quickly determine if a politician is supporting conservative principles separating their rhetoric from reality. Members elected after to 2009 will have scores based on less than 50 key votes.
Scores are determined by points earned divided by potential points. Voting with the conservative position earns 1 point, voting against the conservative position earns 0 points. Missed votes are not included in a member of Congress’ score. A letter grade is assigned to each member to help you quickly determine if a lawmaker is supporting conservative principles. The Liberty Score® helps evaluate your Representatives and Senators, providing the tools necessary to separate rhetoric from reality.
How does Paul RYAN rank?
ANSWER: 58% out of 100%
That gives him an ‘F’
As I said in another thread...
We don’t necessarily need a conservative to be Speaker of the House. We simply need someone who wants to win.
Our problem the past 4 years hasn’t been that leadership was not enacting conservative policies. It was that they weren’t holding firm against radical liberal policies.
Not funding a criminal enterprise like Planned Parenthood who are being investigated for committing felonies while selling dead baby parts IS NOT A CONSERVATIVE POSITION. IT IS A COMMON SENSE POSITION.
At this point, we only need leadership to hold firm on common sense moderate positions. Once we get the Presidency, then we go full bore on enacting conservative policies.
At that point, Cruz can lean on the House to put a Conservative in charge.
Yet these actors wonder why Trump has sparked the masses. They wonder why people are donating to Cruz.
There was a time and place when this country was not run by professional politicans. We have now become brainwashed to believe only they can run this system. Why would any politican change how this machine operates? It’s cute to watch them market themselves as instruments of change and outsiders. Pathetic lot.
I think an announcement by Ryan could be forthcoming, even though he doesn’t particularly want it. The only question I have is whether he’ll be a temporary Speaker until after the 2016 elections or whether he’ll stay on?
Now we know why Chaffetz “volunteered.” No conservative who gets as much air time as he does is on the up and up. He was hogging the notice Webster might have otherwise received.
Ryan is better than McCarthy (and Bonehead and Chaffetz).
So is Issa. Issa opposed SOPA, I like him for that.
I’m getting a little tired of the “F the GOP” comments. Do people really expect someone like conservative ex-member Alan West to be the Speaker?
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