Posted on 05/07/2016 9:07:23 PM PDT by Innovative
Reps. Lynn Westmoreland of Georgia and Dennis Ross of Florida — who, as House whips, help Republican leaders muster support to pass legislation — told POLITICO in interviews on Friday that they disagreed with Ryan’s decision to break with Trump in a bombshell interview a day earlier. Both lawmakers said they believe their leader is in denial about how Republican voters feel about the real-estate tycoon.
“I honestly don’t understand what Paul’s thinking — I don’t get it,” said Westmoreland, who is retiring after this year. “I try not to give advice to the speaker, but I think it just really brought about, in my opinion, even more confusion to this thing.”
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I live in SC please add Lindsey Graham to your list.
Ryan just fired himself. Thats good , because Ryan could not work with Trump, he doesn;t have the capacity to make America Great Again.Ryan is part of the PROBLEM.
Good riddance , I say!
“I honestly don’t understand what Paul’s thinking — I don’t get it,” said Westmoreland.
EVERYONE UNDERSTANDS WHY! Ryan is the Speaker of the House and he wants to hold onto his job. To do so, he must reflect the wishes of other members of the house. It’s a team after all and he is the quarterback. The rewards of being a political quarterback are enormous: Personal wealth, special privileges, money under the table, political donations by special interests paying for special favors, and a wealth of other “bennies” that come with the position.
For a handicapped individual like Ryan (he was born extremely ugly and with the demeanor of an asshole) the lure of all of this makes him think he is KING OF AMERICA.
Got Trump Chisel?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chisel
A little chunk of RINO here, a little chunk of RINO there... chip chip chip.
There’s a Republic in that slab of bureaucratic cement just waiting to get out!
You almost wonder if that’s not what he’s after...maybe he’s tired of sleeping in his office and showering at the gym and figures if he can’t have things his way then to hell with this Congressman gig...
Lincoln broke with Jefferson Davis over secession. Maybe Ryan is thinking in those terms.
Most have probably committed a felony to get where they are.
Just go buy a VISA gift card. You'll spend another 5 bucks, but you can give them completely bogus information.
If it's good enough for Obama (who used it to wash millions in foreign money), it's good enough for everyone else.
Ryan is full of himself. He needs to go.
They don’t care about the Republican electorate. To them, the Republican Party is a retainer, and Republican voters are schmucks, to be manipulated into contributing and voting for the people the Bush overlords select for them. When the Republican Party ceases to perform this function, the Bush family is done with it.
Ryan has gotten the message, that’s all. And he knows he’s second in line for the Presidency if some accident befalls Trump and his Veep.
Trump should announce Huckabee’s name for VP.
You nailed it! Of course this corrupt system is strung together by the carrots of bribes and the sticks of exposure. The only way to stop the incentives for criminals to become our “representatives is to make it nearly impossible for them to benefit from influence-peddling.
If that means they have to take vows of poverty like priests but that are strictly enforced electronically by the NSA total surveillance grid....so be it.
He can go back to being a leprechaun. Maybe he’ll find his own gold instead of spending ours
I’m laughing my butt off that Palin is now backing Ryan’s opponent Paul Nehlen. Ryan has really screwed the pooch on this one.
Ryan is a backer of Mitt Romney.
Along with ignoring the will of the voters. Typical establishment.
We will find out if Ryan has gotten the message. Ryan is already facing a tough primary challenge from Paul Nehlen (Nehlen is beating Ryan in a recent poll of Ryan’s district 48-42) and the possibility of being ousted from his Speaker job by pro-Trump GOP House members should this non-endorsement nonsense become prolonged.
Trump doesn’t need Ryan’s endorsement as much as Ryan needs Trump’s assurance he won’t work to get him removed as Speaker and won’t get involved in Ryan’s primary election (Nehlen has already endorsed Trump).
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