Posted on 01/26/2016 5:40:48 AM PST by Enlightened1
Despite those protestations, Ryan has spent his first couple months as Speaker aggressively courting some of the same Freedom Caucus conservatives who forced his predecessor, John Boehner, out of office last fall.
The Wisconsin Republican ensured that conservative rebel Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-Kansas), ostracized for years by Boehner and his allies, won a subcommittee gavel and a coveted spot on the powerful Speaker-aligned panel that picks committee chairmen.
He's invited Freedom members to weekly dinners he hosts in the Capitol. And Ryan has made Freedom Caucus Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), a frequent thorn in Boehner's side, a key member of his advisory team.
So far, founders of the nearly 40-member Freedom Caucus have praised Ryan's more inclusive leadership style and are willing to give him some breathing room to show what he can do in his new role. But Ryan knows he's walking a perilous tightrope: A major misstep this year and the Freedom Caucus could send him packing, just like they did to Boehner.
Freedom Caucus members themselves are also feeling heat from grassroots conservatives and some talk-radio hosts, who want them to dump Ryan. Some lawmakers are still receiving phone calls from constituents angry that they helped give Ryan, Mitt Romney's running mate in 2012, enough votes to win the speaker's gavel last October, aides said.
Fortunately for Ryan, there aren't many political landmines in 2016. The budget deal Boehner struck with Obama in October during his final days in office cleared the decks for Ryan, setting government spending levels for the next two years and ensuring there would be no debt default until at least March 2017, after a new president is sworn in.
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FU Ryan.
Ryan has defined what he is - a traitorous, deceitful agent of the establishment.
He sees his job as being the tax collector and defender of Obama’s policies.
Tame Conservatives? You can’t tame someone who is more sane than you are.
He should “seek to tame” the commie lib DemocRATS. Those maggots are destroying the country.
Ryan seeks to CORRUPT conservatives.
Just doing what the GOPe does.
With Pubbies like Boner and Ryan, who needs Democrats?
The “corporate liberals” are seeking to buy off the opposition.
I guess Paul Rino didn’t get the memo that the Democrats are the opposition.
Tame conservatives?
That implies a time when they were not tame (vigorous). Can anyone identify such a period in the last generation?
Rayan, they are already “tamed”; that is why they appointed your sorry ass.
Budget deal: Obama gets everything, we get to sell precious oil overseas. Seems fair.
That's right you back Ryan who gave us Omnibus
Phyllis Schlafly a real Conservative laughs at NR even being a conservative magazine on issues over the year.
That's waaaay too close to the Presidency for my tastes.
Lyin’ Ryan is so untrustworthy, if he told me that it was raining during a downpour I’d want a second opinion.
sCREW HIM.
.....AND his Islamic beard.
fyi.... deer season is over
to imply a good Christian is islamic is the very height of political bigotry
Cantor him.
Tame is code word for castrate.
Go pound sand ya RINO
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