Paul Ryan's political purgatory

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Republicans say retiring Speaker Paul Ryan is in political purgatory as he grapples with a failed farm bill, a revolt by moderates on immigration and threats from conservatives in the House Freedom Caucus.

Ryan has been adamant he has no desire or plans to resign the Speakership before his scheduled January departure, but some Republicans think he’d like to leave earlier.

They say the Wisconsin Republican is trapped on Capitol Hill because his hand-picked successor, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), can’t secure the 218 votes he needs to be elected Speaker in a floor vote.

“The Speaker has demonstrated that he’s fully supportive of McCarthy. It’s easy to speculate that once McCarthy has the votes, the Speaker would vacate” the office, one GOP lawmaker close to Ryan and McCarthy told The Hill on Wednesday.

Added a second GOP lawmaker: “You are supposed to go once you quit, and somebody else comes in, and a transition happens pretty immediately. Now, it’s kind of a wait-and-see. He’s in a bad situation, no question about it.”

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/389104-paul-ryans-political-purgatory

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. He will be able to claim that he helped the president PUNISH people who didnt vote for him.

They did this in a big way, the tax plan.

They should feel proud that they were able to punish and in some cases GREATLY HARM patriotic Americans. I mean this is what they are about.

[irisblue]

2. Ryan cannot suffer enough for what he's done to us & the US