As Republican hardliners express their resistance to having House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) as their speaker, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) has stepped up to give a speech in support of McCarthy at Thursday’s nominating conference, Politico reported.
The 40-or-so member House Freedom Caucus has endorsed McCarthy’s challenger, Rep. Daniel Webster (R-FL). Although Webster is viewed as a long-shot in today’s nomination conference, which is only among Republicans, the conservative group’s refusal to support McCarthy could pose a problem once the speaker voter hits the full floor, where the GOP nominee will need 218 votes to become speaker.
The move to have Ryan make a speech in favor of McCarthy Thursday is viewed as an effort to shore up conservative support.
With an endorsement like this…
These morons are going to want serious concessions for their support. Ryan won’t change that. Would be disastrous.
What’s Plan B, republicans?
“I’m here today to endorse Kevin McCarthy. Under his leadership, we will be able to keep driving Hillary Clinton’s poll numbers down with our completely honorable and non-political Anti-Hillary, errrr, Benghazi Committee.”
It’s only possible in a new twisted R universe that just because McCarthy has been second in the R leadership in the House but has no accomplishments other than prodigious fund raising he is deemed fit to be Speaker with all the responsibility it entails and positioning him to be second in line to the presidency. When I hear him speak, with or without notes, I think dyslexia which might account for his incoherence.
The election of McCarthy to Speaker inoculates Hillary Clinton against any Benghazi attacks from the right, rendering them purely political and exploitative of the lives of four Americans.
Ryan is being the good solider for the Repug establishment earning him chips that he will cash in at a later date.