The head of the House Freedom Caucus said on Sunday that though the conservative group has endorsed Daniel Webster (R-FL) to be the next House speaker, it would “look favorably” on Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI).
The endorsement was a blow to House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy who unexpectedly dropped out of the running before Republicans were to vote for a nomination.
The Freedom Caucus includes about 40 of the most conservative House members.
Ryan has repeatedly said he wouldn’t run for the job, but Jim Jordan (R-OH), leader of the Freedom Caucus, called him a “good man” and “great communicator” on Sunday.
“Certainly, if he gets into the race, I think our group would look favorably on him,” Jordan said.
"Look favorably??" Really?? Gee, that’s pretty tepid…and funny!!
In the lynchings that you and your kind perpetrated on blacks and other minorities through the years, the unfortunate victim was always looked upon “favourably”
Right up to his demise.
So has Ryan shown any signs of changing his mind over the weekend?
If I were Ryan I wouldn’t take the job. This is the ultimate no win situation.
Even if he negotiated a bullet proof care-taker role, what’s going to change by the next election? The Republican party has so gerrymandered the crazy that Eric Cantor couldn’t win a primary. They will likely lose some seats at the margins but they’re not going below 2012 levels (where Democrats had 1,000,000 more votes for congress than Republicans and the GOP majority held firm) which means the next GOP congress is going to be right back where we are now. So then they tell Ryan we hate you but you can’t leave this job because no one else will do it?
The Republican party has so institutionalized the crazy as to make being Speaker an impossible job.
The wingnuts whose heads are obviously up their tucheses need to look some more since Daniel Webster R-FL is likely to lose his seat because of an imminent redistricting decision by the FL State Supreme Court.
One of the worst effects of no-show Democratic voters in U.S. history…the 2010 non-voters.