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General Category => Editorial/Opinion/Blogs => Topic started by: Right_in_Virginia on March 26, 2017, 12:35:59 pm
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Judge Jeanine Pirro Opening Statement - Paul Ryan Needs To Step Down As Speaker Of The House
Fox News/YouTube; March 25, 2017
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYZ6O9GN4mg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYZ6O9GN4mg
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While I'm all for Ryan stepping down, I hope a true conservative who is actually willing to lead steps up to the plate. Exchanging Ryan for Boehner was certainly not an asset. As for Trump; throwing blame at a conservative group is a huge, huge mistake and could very well be his downfall and so far it looks like this is happening sooner rather than later.
Jeanine Pirro Calls for Paul Ryan to Step Down After Health Bill Failure
Jeanine Pirro, a Fox News host, is a longtime friend of President Trump. So when Mr. Trump said on Twitter on Saturday — a day after his crushing defeat in the House on health care — that people should watch her show that night, political observers began guessing what was in store.
What she delivered was a diatribe against the House speaker, Paul D. Ryan.
“Paul Ryan needs to step down as speaker of the House,” Ms. Pirro, a former prosecutor, said at the opening of her show. “The reason? He failed to deliver the votes on his health care bill.”
...In their phone call on Saturday, according to a person briefed on the matter, Mr. Ryan told Mr. Trump that he wanted to proceed with a tax overhaul package. Their relationship, so far, has seemed to hold.
...But privately, Mr. Trump has been pressed by some advisers to consider the damage wrought by the bill’s failure, and to consider Mr. Ryan’s role.
Publicly, at least, Mr. Trump was casting blame on Sunday morning not on Mr. Ryan but on the small-government conservatives in the House Freedom Caucus, as well as outside conservative groups.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/26/us/politics/jeanine-pirro-paul-ryan-trump.html?_r=0