Posted on 10/21/2015 4:26:36 AM PDT by 1010RD
According to House rules, any member can offer a motion to vacate the speakers chair and force a de facto vote of no confidence in the Speaker. Under normal circumstances, an individual member has no power to force a vote on any bill or resolution, but the motion to vacate is privileged. It must be voted upon.
Keep in mind that it has functioned since the very beginning of our nation and that it cuts both ways. This means that a Speaker can only be so conservative or the other factions of the GOP coalition will use it as a tool against that Speaker just as is happening now.
This is in large part why a Speaker cannot be very conservative. The job naturally involves compromise to appease all factions of the GOP coalition.
The key to conservative victory is acting on all those areas of agreement within the GOP coalition and there are hundreds of areas of agreement. Keep winning yard by yard, issue by issue.
Whether this politburo bureaucrat wrote his speech in a deer stand or on the toilet taking a dump where the rest of his ideas belong makes no difference in the obedience he is demanding.
“I’ll deign to take the Speakership if you’ll capitulate and accede to my agenda - IOW, NO DISSENT.”
Ryan is purported to be a budget expert because he can talk bureaucratese for spending and funding. They’ve been spending and financing it off our backs for a hundred years - other peoples’ money, What Me Worry?
Capitulate is another word he’s familiar with - very. His Capitulation Budget in tribute to Obama is the prime example.
Mr. Ryan, you are a losing also-ran and your ‘conditions’ are completely out of line. Instead of making your potential voters meet your demands, start thinking about how these 40 or so rebels got that way and who ELECTED them in the first place.
I wouldn’t vote for you for dog catcher.
Conditions? When you buy a car do you accept the dealer’s conditions? That one word alone tells me to tell him to go to h*ll.
Breathtaking. What an entitled b$tch. I’d like to see him lose his Wisconsin seat, and have to compete for work amongst the illegals. And his spoiled brat wife, too
Paul Ryan can go to HFIL
Might as well just submit tot he executive under his “leadership”..... frickin moron
In other words, support ME, or I will go around with all the other GOP toadies and blame YOU.
Did Ryan consult with his pal Patty Murray before making his ‘demands’?
Kevin McCarthy suffering from terminal foot & mouth disease dropped out, Jason Chaffetz decided he did not really want to be Speaker. Now after being courted for two weeks, Paul Ryan is being crowned as Speaker.
My question is, what happened to the third candidate? Daniel Webster.
If memory serves, he was the first one to enter the race. Then Ryan and Chaffetz. Did he drop out? Was he pushed out? Or was he just not important enough? Important enough translating to liberal enough
White House and Hill react to news that conservative Republican representatives appear to actually accept conditions for a new Speaker.
Ryan is a non-starter.
He loves illegals and hates veterans: active, retired, and honorably discharged.
Need I comment?
If being Speaker means not be conservative, explain why Pelosi continually pushed further and further left.
You can’t can you.
The REAL reason the left wants a moderate is the moderates in congress have so many RATS working for them, they know EXACTLY what the GOP-e plan is way before it goes public.
Scary. Paul sets a deadline for all to obey him.
My guess would be nobody outside of the Freedom Caucus would support him.
Paul Ryan just another name for Obama Butt kisser and a user of Alinsky’s tactics. Come now where are the Wisconsin Voters and are the ticked how this POS has used the tea party connections and than shoves their goals down heir throats in spite and becomes ye another DC political insider. Wisconsin needs to recall this POS!
Bingo! Ditto!
I so agree with you.
I do not care about his conditions about traveling or working weekends. But he is NOT going to push amnesty and budgets that exacerbate our debt problems with a “Support me or else” bs attitude.
Eff him. Conservatives need to stand tough and make THEIR ideas part of the solution.
We the people outside the beltway expect and demand it.
Webster is still running. Boehner broke Conference rules when he allowed only Ryan to speak last night.
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