First, I think the problem here is that you don’t seem to understand that all of Washington DC runs on bribery. If you did, nothing about my statement would be even slightly controversial.
Second, your statement about Ryan’s alleged motives helps no one at all since it provides no basis whatsoever on which to predict his future actions. It is a semantically worthless assertion, that by its very nature cannot be verified.
If you believe the Republican leader is only interested in maintaining his republican majority, and thus his power, then you know that you can motivate him by helping or hurting his most at risk members. Losing his speaker-ship by a member vote is also, of course, a pressure point.