Posted on 10/23/2016 6:01:32 AM PDT by cotton1706
I may have been way too optimistic a week ago when I posted that it was “hard to come up with a realistic scenario that ends with Paul Ryan (R-WI) as speaker of the House of Representatives in the next Congress.”
Never mind the next Congress: It now looks like Ryan could be deposed or forced to resign this Congress in the lame duck session that begins a week after Election Day.
In other words, Ryan may no longer be speaker about four weeks from now.
I say this after hearing from several highly reliable sources that the House Freedom Caucus is seriously considering doing to Ryan what it did to former Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) by threatening him with a privileged motion to vacate the chair. If a majority of the House supported the motion, Ryan would be removed immediately as speaker.
Getting 218 House Republicans to vote for a motion to vacate won’t be easy.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
The problem isn't Ryan. The problem is all the congressional RINOs who voted for Ryan.
so the Democrat will win over him? Even though he is a RINO, I would think it better for Ryan to win than a Democrat which is even worse..we best watch what we are hoping for.
I believe Ryan would quit now. He can’t stay Speaker, lose the House and run in 2020 which is what he really wants.
If Comrade Hellry wins by hook or crook, no GOP Presidential candidate will ever win again.
It will be “All Socialism, All The Time”.
Lyin’ Ryan, at best, does not have the IQ to grasp this reality.
He will be able to join in on the looting if he plays by the rules.
Double that. How is he doing in his race?
Tell me about it, that piece of rat filth can go F himself in the worst way. I’ve been voting Republican since the Reagan/Carter election, never in my LIFE have I EVER seen a Republican party like this - one that not only actively works AGAINST it’s own nominee to help the Democratic nominee, but to also help a democratic nominee who is a multiple FELON - and she IS a felon, who do they think they are kidding? The law is blindingly clear when it states GROSS NEGLIGENCE!
18 USC Ch. 37: ESPIONAGE AND CENSORSHIP
From Title 18—CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
PART I—CRIMES
§793. Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information
(f) Whoever, being entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, note, or information, relating to the national defense, (1) through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust, or to be lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, or (2) having knowledge that the same has been illegally removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of its trust, or lost, or stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, and fails to make prompt report of such loss, theft, abstraction, or destruction to his superior officer—
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.
(g) If two or more persons conspire to violate any of the foregoing provisions of this section, and one or more of such persons do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, each of the parties to such conspiracy shall be subject to the punishment provided for the offense which is the object of such conspiracy.
Drumbeat from mainstream outlets now
Could be for real
Punk Ryan is a doormat. You can bet he would quit and run from a fight to keep his Speakership.
Ryan should be tried for high treason.
His numbers have recently dipped, but he’s leading.
HOW?!!!!!!!!!
I know it’s “good” (that’s so hard to say) that he wins and counts as an R, but God i hate him.
I often thought perhaps the Gop was using Ryan just as a chess piece they could move around....he has never been actually into accepting these positions....but willing, it seems, to be played for a time. So it may not be any skin off his nose among his peers.
A write at Breitbart was right on: it’s progressive Globalists vs. Nationalist conservatives. All over the world. Time for choosing.
because a majority of those idiots voted him in? He’s got powerful shadows behind him to coerce a couple of guys to set their votes the last time..
Ryan-o does seem to understand the psyche of Badgers.
If the establishment isn’t afraid of the people, why do they have to lie about everything they do?
They’re terrified.
He is an advocate of big government, not a classical Liberal!
Uniparty exists on our side too. Our “leadership” ranks are highly infected.
Boehner Mk2’s replacement will be Boehner mk3
That would be the ultimate Cantorization, wouldn't it!
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