Posted on 10/28/2016 10:25:11 AM PDT by cotton1706
House Speaker Paul D. Ryan is on the verge of a reckoning with House conservatives that threatens to end his speakership and extinguish his own future as a national political leader.
The intraparty fight is set to begin in the days after the Nov. 8 election, when Ryan (R-Wis.) will be under immediate pressure from approximately 40 hard-line House conservatives frustrated with his handling of spending fights and shifting position on GOP presidential nominee Donald J. Trump. The conservatives are eyeing a November leadership election and December spending deadline to determine how Ryan can lead Republicans — or if he can lead them at all.
Conservatives have no plans to compromise next year with Hillary Clinton, if she wins the White House, and Democrats capture the Senate. They are pushing Ryan to hold the line on spending and other matters, even if it means continued partisan gridlock on Capitol Hill. Some members of the hard-right House Freedom Caucus have crafted a list of demands — including deep spending cuts, changes to House rules and a promise to vote only on bills that have majority Republican support — in exchange for their support.
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I disagree with your analysis. The people elected a Republican congress in 2014 to give them the power they needed to fight Obama's agenda. Yet they buckled and gave Obama everything he wanted.
I was so disgusted with that unspeakable betrayal that I quit the party and formally changed my registration from Republican to "unenrolled."
I wish he would have lost his primary to Nehlan
It took him just DAYS to go back on his word after winning the primary.
But, if he stays in office he must lose the speakershp. How can he be incharge if Trump wins and he was against him.
He is a traitor to his electorate and to the Constitution.
this political machine is truly evil.
Do you guys remember PR years ago? He seemed very sincere I wonder if he actually was until the machine got him?
Traitors every one!
GO TRUMP BEAT cankles!
Sometimes takes a while to get a big enough black bag together.
RINOs like Ryan are petrified Trump will win because if he starts parading Demorats to jail, some of the RINOs will not be far behind.
Couldn't happen to a nicer guy. Let's add Linda Graham from South Carolina and John McCain to the list and we'd have a good start.
We won't need term limits for a while because many of the old fossils will be heading for jail.
He should not see a second.
Everyone must contact their Congresscritter and let them know if they vote for Ryan as Speaker, they will be Cantorized.
I agree. Any chance he will lose reelection to the Dem?
Give Paul Ryan the boot.
I submit that the will of We The People is almost never represented anymore by those elected to do so.
That - and that alone - accounts for the ascendancy of Donald Trump.
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