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Report: Paul Ryan Not Running for Re-Election
« on: April 11, 2018, 01:09:55 pm »
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Cortney O'Brien
Apr. 11, 2018

House Speaker Paul Ryan is not running for re-election, according to reports.

Can confirm @jonathanvswan scoop that Paul Ryan will tell colleagues today that he’s not running for re-election. A source with direct knowledge tells me he’ll inform his staff at 8:45. Story TK

— Elaina Plott (@elainaplott) April 11, 2018


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Re: Report: Paul Ryan Not Running for Re-Election
« Reply #2 on: April 11, 2018, 01:22:40 pm »
Might as well.  Republicans are in danger of losing their majority in both houses, so most likely, he won't be Speaker after this year.  And Ryan has been a major disappointment, but of course, so has the rest of his party. 

Honestly, I say, "good riddance to bad rubbish."  The whole party could resign.  I don't care.

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« Reply #3 on: April 11, 2018, 01:25:20 pm »
I would really like to believe this is true but I have my doubts.  I think it is a false flag designed to see how many, and who, he can get to "beg" him to stay on.  Then he can "bow to the wishes" of the public and stay. 8bs8

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Re: Report: Paul Ryan Not Running for Re-Election
« Reply #4 on: April 11, 2018, 01:27:32 pm »
I would really like to believe this is true but I have my doubts.  I think it is a false flag designed to see how many, and who, he can get to "beg" him to stay on.  Then he can "bow to the wishes" of the public and stay. 8bs8

Possibly.  However, it more likely that the GOP internal polling is showing what my state rep reported, and that is that the GOP is going to be shellacked this fall.  Ryan does not want to preside over that.
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Re: Report: Paul Ryan Not Running for Re-Election
« Reply #5 on: April 11, 2018, 01:31:31 pm »

Ben Shapiro  Verified account @benshapiro

Thoughts on Ryan:
1. Ryan really took the hit for McConnell here. Ryan ticked off the base by presenting McConnell with stuff McConnell assured him could pass.
2. To attribute Ryan leaving to Trump rather than the impending blue wave is inaccurate.
3. Ryan was never suited to this job. Speakership generally requires either a wily manipulator (Tip O’Neill) or a unifying legislative vision backed by the party (1994 Gingrich or 2006 Pelosi). Ryan was neither.
4. Ryan’s priorities were not supported by legislators. He was interested in solving big problems like entitlements. They weren’t.
5. Ryan sees himself as an idea guy. The speakership generally isn’t an idea position. He was pushed into it, and he never really wanted it.
6. Ryan does have young kids. Being a legislator in DC, and particularly speaker, sucks. He was likely to step down after the election anyway.
7. Ryan was likely to be minority leader by November, and leave with the party blaming him in order to avoid blaming Trump. Why bother?
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Re: Report: Paul Ryan Not Running for Re-Election
« Reply #6 on: April 11, 2018, 01:44:20 pm »
Ben Shapiro  Verified account @benshapiro

Thoughts on Ryan:
1. Ryan really took the hit for McConnell here. Ryan ticked off the base by presenting McConnell with stuff McConnell assured him could pass.
2. To attribute Ryan leaving to Trump rather than the impending blue wave is inaccurate.
3. Ryan was never suited to this job. Speakership generally requires either a wily manipulator (Tip O’Neill) or a unifying legislative vision backed by the party (1994 Gingrich or 2006 Pelosi). Ryan was neither.
4. Ryan’s priorities were not supported by legislators. He was interested in solving big problems like entitlements. They weren’t.
5. Ryan sees himself as an idea guy. The speakership generally isn’t an idea position. He was pushed into it, and he never really wanted it.
6. Ryan does have young kids. Being a legislator in DC, and particularly speaker, sucks. He was likely to step down after the election anyway.
7. Ryan was likely to be minority leader by November, and leave with the party blaming him in order to avoid blaming Trump. Why bother?

McConnell stabbed Ryan in the back? How (un)surprising.

Pubbies who have spent years in the majority know how it sucks to be in the minority. They're cashing in their chips and heading to K Street and think tanks while the getting is good.

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He must work cheap, he has no ratings.
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Re: Report: Paul Ryan Not Running for Re-Election
« Reply #7 on: April 11, 2018, 01:52:39 pm »
Shapiro is absolutely right about point 3.  Ryan is sharp on specific policy matters, but doesn’t have the overall skillset for Speaker.
I disagree.  Circle gets the square.

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Re: Report: Paul Ryan Not Running for Re-Election
« Reply #8 on: April 11, 2018, 01:54:35 pm »
Another tweet:
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Speaker Paul Ryan is a truly good man, and while he will not be seeking re-election, he will leave a legacy of achievement that nobody can question. We are with you Paul!
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Re: Report: Paul Ryan Not Running for Re-Election
« Reply #9 on: April 11, 2018, 01:54:56 pm »
Paul will now join his wife in the Washington lobby and enrich himself to the tune of $1 Million + per year band we will get the bill!
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Re: Report: Paul Ryan Not Running for Re-Election
« Reply #10 on: April 11, 2018, 01:57:53 pm »
So, who's turn is it?  McCarthy?  Whoop-de-doo.
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Re: Report: Paul Ryan Not Running for Re-Election
« Reply #11 on: April 11, 2018, 02:21:38 pm »
Damn Ryan straight to hell.  If he knew he was stepping down, then why did he still sell us out?

If it was my last major vote before leaving the Speaker position, then I wouldn't have let anything short of a balanced budget pass.  Yet Ryan pushes through $500 million to keep  abortion clinics up and running.  Bastard!
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Re: Report: Paul Ryan Not Running for Re-Election
« Reply #12 on: April 11, 2018, 02:22:28 pm »
I guess he got the lobbying gig all lined up.

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Re: Report: Paul Ryan Not Running for Re-Election
« Reply #13 on: April 11, 2018, 02:26:26 pm »
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Speaker Paul Ryan is a truly good man, and while he will not be seeking re-election, he will leave a legacy of achievement that nobody can question.

You got that right.  Ryan will go down in history as the Speaker who added more debt to the nation's balance sheet than any other Speaker in US history besides John Boehner.  On each of the last three major spending bills, Ryan gave Democrats far more than they even asked for.
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Re: Report: Paul Ryan Not Running for Re-Election
« Reply #14 on: April 11, 2018, 02:37:55 pm »
I would really like to believe this is true but I have my doubts.  I think it is a false flag designed to see how many, and who, he can get to "beg" him to stay on.  Then he can "bow to the wishes" of the public and stay. 8bs8

I think your BS meter might need some adjustment.
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Re: Report: Paul Ryan Not Running for Re-Election
« Reply #15 on: April 11, 2018, 03:03:40 pm »
...he will leave a legacy of achievement that nobody can question.

Unless one is a Democrat, his legacy will be running TDs for the other team and crafting trillion dollar omnibus spending bills in secret.

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Re: Report: Paul Ryan Not Running for Re-Election
« Reply #16 on: April 11, 2018, 03:09:46 pm »
Ryan might as well leave now and hand the gavel to Pelosi. No one would know the difference.

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Re: Report: Paul Ryan Not Running for Re-Election
« Reply #17 on: April 11, 2018, 03:38:51 pm »
Ryan did not have enough conservative GOP support in the House to do the things he wanted to do, and obviously didn't get to work with a Senate capable of passing a consistent conservative agenda.  If we have 218 House members like Ryan, this country would be much, much better off.  And if we could have put 60 of those guys in the Senate, we'd have been much better off as well.

Ryan too often has been the whipping boy for generalized anger against a Congress that is insufficiently conservative.  Entitlement reform would be the most significant legislative accomplishment in the last half century, but not enough people were willing to follow Ryan.

People can mock him now, but losing him isn't a good thing.

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« Reply #18 on: April 11, 2018, 03:46:13 pm »
Possibly.  However, it more likely that the GOP internal polling is showing what my state rep reported, and that is that the GOP is going to be shellacked this fall.  Ryan does not want to preside over that.

Just goes to show what a wuss he really is.

And he made Joe Biden look like a member of MENSA during their VP debate.

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« Reply #19 on: April 11, 2018, 04:07:36 pm »
I knew that the House was in trouble as soon as I learned that leadership wasn't changing...now it is...a little too late.  I remember being very disgusted when I heard his speech after Trump won the election and he stated something to the effect, that now is the GOP's chance to really do something.  I certainly didn't buy into his hype, because he had led the House the past several years under Bammy.  He didn't do anything then and he hasn't done anything now. 

Representatives are bailing out of the House in record numbers and this is just a sign of what's to come.  We will lose the House and the Senate I'm afraid.  I would like to think otherwise, but I'm a realist at heart rather than an optimist.
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Re: Report: Paul Ryan Not Running for Re-Election
« Reply #20 on: April 11, 2018, 04:11:09 pm »
I guess he got the lobbying gig all lined up.
Likely.
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« Reply #21 on: April 11, 2018, 04:13:41 pm »
Just goes to show what a wuss he really is.

And he made Joe Biden look like a member of MENSA during their VP debate.

I am disappointed in Paul Ryan in some respects, but I also realize that he always lacked enough conservative votes in Congress to get much done, especially in the face of a united Democrat opposition.

His job was always like herding cats, and not just ordinary house cats, mind you, but a big, brawling clowder of nasty, clawing a**hole cats.
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Re: Report: Paul Ryan Not Running for Re-Election
« Reply #22 on: April 11, 2018, 04:18:27 pm »
Most likely, Ryan was being blackmailed.  That is the only plausible excuse I can come up with for his previous actions of giving Democrats even more than they asked for and his new desire to step down.
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« Reply #23 on: April 11, 2018, 04:23:57 pm »
Most likely, Ryan was being blackmailed.  That is the only plausible excuse I can come up with for his previous actions of giving Democrats even more than they asked for and his new desire to step down.

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Re: Report: Paul Ryan Not Running for Re-Election
« Reply #24 on: April 11, 2018, 04:30:11 pm »
I am disappointed in Paul Ryan in some respects, but I also realize that he always lacked enough conservative votes in Congress to get much done, especially in the face of a united Democrat opposition.

His job was always like herding cats, and not just ordinary house cats, mind you, but a big, brawling clowder of nasty, clawing a**hole cats.

Right.  People want to believe that because he's Speaker, he can just make other Republicans vote how he wants.  That's not true.  Hell, the reason he became Speaker was pretty much by default -- the GOP caucus was too fractured no pick anyone else, so he was the consensus default candidate.

There was never a conservative majority in the House, and that's not his fault.