Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) gained two big endorsements in the race for House majority leader, the number two slot in House leadership, on Monday, according to Politico.
Both Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) said they will back Price, the chairman of the House Budget Committee, over House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) and House Republican Conference Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA).
“Tom Price is a committed conservative and a good friend,” Ryan, chair of the Ways and Means Committee, said in a statement, according to Politico. “He and I have served for years together on the Budget and Ways and Means Committees, working to pay down our debt, fix our tax code, and grow our economy. Tom has a proven record of advancing conservative solutions and principles. He has the knowledge and skills needed to be an effective Majority Leader, and I’m proud to support him.”
Hensarling, who had been mulling a bid for a leadership position, announced on Monday that he would not run and threw his support behind Price.
“After prayerful consideration, Chairman Hensarling is not a candidate for a leadership position. He will support Chairman Price for Majority Leader,” Hensarling spokeswoman Sarah Rozier told Politico.
Price, the former chair of the House Republican Study committee, did not run for a top leadership position in 2014 after former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) lost his seat, and instead sought out the position of Budget Committee chairman.
Now this is key. If Price becomes Majority leader, and Scalise stays Whip, McCarthy is in a even worse predicament than Boehner. He is quite literally a figurehead placeholder that will be gone in January.
““After prayerful consideration, Chairman Hensarling is not a candidate for a leadership position. He will support Chairman Price for Majority Leader,” Hensarling spokeswoman Sarah Rozier told Politico.”
a) I can tell you from personal experience that Price is a certified nutjob, but he’s polite, wears glasses, and speaks in a relatively soft tone with a disarming and subtle southern accent…think if George Will were from the South, but this dude is still a nutbag
b) “prayerful consideration?” - how does that work? God sends you a text after praying? a voicemail? e-mail? “talking to God” for solutions should disqualify you for office, but so many of you believe in the magical fairy in the sky that “talking to God” is publicly bragged about…SMH
“After prayerful consideration”
I vomit a little in my mouth every time I hear that fucking idiocy from these twats.
But that’s what passes for English language nowadays.
I admit to not knowing anything about Price but, on a gut level, if he’s being endorsed by Ryan and Hensarling, he’s got to be pretty damn far out there.
On the there hand, “pretty far out there” will be the barometer for all of them, I guess. I haven’t heard any endorsements so far for McCarthy.