Cruz is a senator not a congressman !
RINOs are still in the majority. What makes people think they’ll get a decent replacement for Ryan?
Oops. I should have thought that through a bit more.
For some reason I was thinking Ryan replaced Boehner, and Boehner was being challenged by Cruz in the SAME chamber.
And also I was thinking Cruz was one of the reps pushing for changes to fix this bill before the vote.
So who would be a good replacement for Ryan?
I had to do some research to see how I failed to see this before.
It turns out that, just as I remembered, Cruz was put forward as a possible name to replace Boehner. I just did not recall anyone making an issue of him being a senator. (But they did.)
So, actually, there is no REQUIREMENT for the speaker of the house to be a Congressman. But, it just so happens that ALL speakers have been picked from Congress.
This means, in theory, Cruz COULD be speaker, though it is very unlikely to happen. Regardless, I think we should be looking for someone to replace Ryan as speaker. We could probably do worse. But we can almost certainly do better.