While I was watching the Benghazi hearing, other stuff happened.
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I don’t think anything has officially “happened” yet. But it will not bode well if Ryan rolls over on the prerequisites that he just set for himself earlier this week.
If I were Ryan, I would run away from the speakership as fast as I could. But, as far as I can tell, I’m smarter than pretty much any elected republican I’ve seen in the past couple of years.
As Ann Richards would say, luckily, this is not difficult.
“He also gave reassurances that he would respect the ‘Hastert Rule’ — the informal practice of former speaker J. Dennis Hastert that required the majority support of the Republican conference before moving legislation to the House floor.”
That doesn’t sound good.
I’m fine with it. Let them shut down the government. Proceed, assholes, proceed!
I think there is a pretty damn good chance that he will look back on this as the worst thing that ever happened to him in his political life.
Kamikaze Paul Ryan, let us know how this works out for you.
Being selected as Romney’s running mate is a close second. Odds are long for a loser VP nominee to come back and win a POTUS nomination and longer still to win in the GE.
Ryan’s angst at giving up the Ways and Means chair; he was set, a made man at forty-five. And now he is thrown to the wolves for an arguably serious but embarrassingly tactical purpose for the sake of “the party”, such as it is.
I’m guessing he said “pried from my cold, dead hands” and they said “It’s a deal, then.” The establishment made this whiny, RINO, weasel and therefore I guess they can break him too.
He could have been a real contender aspired for the GOP Wilber Mills. OTOH, his House colleagues have become just crazy enough that I wouldn’t give them much of a chance to hold onto the majority for the next twenty years. Then again, their only opposition is Democrats.
We’ll see. I’m guessing there’s worse in store. I had always figured Ryan for a superficial, little sneak feathering his own nest. That he was genuinely the intellectual paperweight for the party’s fantasy platform always seemed an infatuation of the media. I don’t think he has much of a clue, to be honest. I expect to see him the manipulated puppet of others behind the scenes like various speakers past. If he gets elected, of course.
Bring on the POPCORN!!!!
If the GOP wants to preserve the Hastert rule, the Freedom Caucus has to fold on shutting down the government and causing a default.
Good news for us in this is that we get to run against Paul Ryan in House races all over the country. They will all be behind him, and his intentions to privatize SS and Medicare and eliminate virtually all government functions but the military are thoroughly documented. I say we put together a national campaign against the Ryan Agenda, make it part of the Presidential campaign, but also let all the local House races link to it and draw on it. We could do better in the House than we had thought. Since Trump is on record opposing SS and Medicare cuts, let’s try to get him on it on privatization too, if he is not. Then we can play let’s you and him fight.
This assumes that the DCCC is competent. There is no evidence of that.
Its almost like the rich dem elites are sabotaging us…
The Freedom Caucus called Ryan’s bluff; your move Paul. This must be excruciatingly painful for him.
Not getting any better, either:
That’s mere days after Ryan’s presumed election. No wonder Boehner fled.
What does Ryan get out of the nuptials?
Nothing, hence the shotgun.
Seems like Ryan would have been far better off telling them to pound sand. Not sure why he’s not but I really don’t care. Whatever happens to him could not have happened to a nicer guy.
I’m guessing he did. I’m guessing this went way beyond arm-twisting. And just imagine how f*cked up things are for you if Paul Ryan is your only hope.
Depends on whether the drubbing those nutcases took yesterday over their two year obsession with the Benghazi nothing-burger knocks a smidgen of sense into their reptilian brains or they go into all out revenge mode. Will leave it to others that better understand the minds of RWNJs to project which way they go.
In practical terms they have mid-December at the very latest to pass a clean debt-limit bill through both houses. Likely?
I don’t bet on the flip of a coin.
No, the debt limit has to be dealt with in very early November (the 5th was the latest date I heard). It’s the budget that has to be dealt with by mid-December. The debt limit is by far more dangerous.
November 5th. Guy Fawkes Day. But from memory that can was kicked down the road last time for some weeks too.
Have backed each other into a corner:
More of a ‘shotgun wedding’ than a fragile marriage.
Obama to veto defense bill in high-stakes showdown over spending
If he does, the military and intelligence community will have only the money that is currently in the pipeline until Obama and Congress agree on a bill. A clean debt limit increase and appropriations bill likely is part of the bargaining.
The brass will have to decide what is really important and which members of Congress to put under pressure.
We have been expecting the knock-out punch try (“Please proceed, Governor.”) too soon I suspect. And even this might not be more than a feint.
Still, it is quite a 2×4 to hit the elephant between the eyes. Yes, he will go there.
If I understand this right, the Freedom Caucus has not committed to raising the debt limit, but Ryan has committed to not cutting a deal with the Dems. How is that supposed to work? If the HFC doesn’t back down, Ryan must cut a deal. He’ll have to betray them in the first few weeks.
This will be very interesting. There seems a fantasy football quality to this elevation of Ryan. Like you say it seems to solve the GOP’s problem for mere weeks if not days.