Paul Ryan Voted In As New House Speaker

[B00Mer]

Paul Ryan Voted In As New House Speaker

Republicans in the US House of Representatives have overwhelmingly elected Paul Ryan as the new Speaker.

The 45-year-old Wisconsin congressman earned 236 of the 247 Republican votes on Thursday to succeed retiring Speaker John Boehner.

Only nine of the party's hardliners voted against Mr Ryan, with those votes going to Florida congressman Daniel Webster.

Mr Ryan, who was Mitt Romney's vice presidential candidate in 2012, told both Republicans and Democrats it was time to come together.

"Wherever you come from, whatever you believe, we're all in the same boat," he said.

"But let's be frank, the House is broken. We're not solving problems, we're adding to them."

Mr Ryan added that he was not "placing blame" on any one party.

"We're wiping the slate clean."

Mr Ryan initially showed reluctance about taking the post after presumptive nominee Kevin McCarthy shocked fellow Republicans by dropping his bid earlier this month.

He eventually agreed to run after he secured crucial endorsements from the party's ultraconservative and moderate factions.

Mr Boehner unexpectedly announced his resignation last month amid mounting pressure from hardline conservatives who considered him too timid in challenging President Barack Obama.

The Representative from Ohio, who is known for being emotional at big events, raised a box of tissues before giving his farewell address on the House floor on Thursday.

Mr Boehner said he leaves Congress after 25 years "with no regrets and no burden".

source:: Paul Ryan Voted In As New House Speaker

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happy to see this

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

"Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss"

--Pete Townshend, Won't Get Fooled Again

 

[B00Mer]

Well I would have liked to see Paul Ryan as President of the USA, but for some reason the clown car pulled and let everyone out to run for the GOP.

 

[Ludlow]

yeah a tea party man is what we need in the White House fo sho

 

[B00Mer]

yeah a tea party man is what we need in the White House fo sho

<shrugs>
Oh well..

 

[Ludlow]

<shrugs>
Oh well..

hey it don't matter to me six of one,,half dozen of the other.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

Does the US speaker have any real power or is he as decorative as the Canadian one and just tap his big stick to keep the children in line?

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Does the US speaker have any real power or is he as decorative as the Canadian one and just tap his big stick to keep the children in line?

The Speaker is second in line for Presidential succession, and has a great deal of power over the agenda of the House. He can kill a bill merely by refusing to schedule a vote.

 

[tay]

Add House Speaker Paul Ryan to the list of Republicans outraged that President Obama is extending overtime eligibility to millions, effectively eliminating a way that employers exploit workers.

Ryan is “committed to fighting this rule and the many others that would be an absolute disaster for our economy,” based, of course, on a load of nonsense:

This regulation hurts the very people it alleges to help. Who is hurt most? Students, non-profit employees, and people starting a new career. By mandating overtime pay at a much higher salary threshold, many small businesses and non-profits will simply be unable to afford skilled workers and be forced to eliminate salaried positions, complete with benefits, altogether. For the sake of his own political legacy, President Obama is rushing through regulations—like the overtime rule—that will cause people to lose their livelihoods.

This makes zero sense if you think about it.


Businesses won’t be able to make salaried employees work for 70 hours a week at $25,000 a year, and therefore will eliminate those jobs altogether? If they can’t afford to pay overtime, they just can’t make people work more than 40 hours a week. Maybe businesses will hire another person to work at regular pay. Maybe they’ll miraculously find the money for overtime. Maybe they’ll figure out how to work more efficiently. The options abound.

As Bryce Covert points out, the same Paul Ryan who thinks it’s awful and terrifying for people to get time and a half if they work more than 40 hours a week is the Paul Ryan who said this just last fall:

“Here’s the problem. They’re working hard. They’re paying a lot. They are trying to do right by their families. And they are going nowhere fast,” he said. “They never get a raise. They never get a break… They are working harder than ever to get ahead. Yet they are falling further behind.”

And now he’s “committed to fighting” an effort to make sure that people get a raise, get a break, don’t have to work harder than ever to get ahead. What a surprise—Paul Ryan not meaning what he says when he’s expressing support for working people.

 

[Mowich]

"Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss"

--Pete Townshend, Won't Get Fooled Again

Is there something about how they have to be good looking cause these guys rock in the looks department. :lol:

hey it don't matter to me six of one,,half dozen of the other.

'scuse my ignorance, Lud but is he like died-in-the-wool tea party or just sorta fringe?

 

[Ludlow]

Is there something about how they have to be good looking cause these guys rock in the looks department. :lol:



'scuse my ignorance, Lud but is he like died-in-the-wool tea party or just sorta fringe?

Honestly Mowich I haven't researched it all that much so I suppose your guess is as good as mine. I thought he was.

 

[Mowich]

Honestly Mowich I haven't researched it all that much so I suppose your guess is as good as mine. I thought he was.

Thanks, anyway Ludlow. :smile:

 

[tay]

So Trump has supported Ryan?

Trump endorses Ryan, McCain and Ayotte after initial reluctance | Fox News


Ryan wants the TPP, Nehlen doesn't and Trump claims he doesn't.

https://twitter.com/pnehlen/status/761724147722362880

 

[tay]

House Speaker Paul Ryan is not a big fan of Donald Trump — that much is clear.

He refused to back Trump during the Republican primaries and then held out on endorsing him even after Trump became the presumptive nominee. But eventually, Ryan did get behind Trump. And now, even after video of Trump bragging about being able to commit sexual assault has come to light, Ryan said he won’t defend Trump, but he has refused to unendorse the GOP nominee. Trump responded by attacking Ryan on Twitter.

A reasonable person might ask why, if Ryan was reluctant to support Trump to begin with, the speaker of the House isn’t washing his hands of the whole Trump campaign.

But the answer is simple: Republican voters like Trump; Ryan risks losing the support of rank-and-file GOPers if he hits Trump too hard.

Trump is more popular among Republicans right now than Ryan is. In the most recent YouGov poll, for example, Trump’s net favorability rating (the percentage of respondents who rate him favorably minus the share who have an unfavorable opinion) among Republican primary voters was +36 percentage points. Ryan’s was just +16 points. Perhaps more telling is that Trump’s “very favorable” rating among this group is 34 percent, while Ryan’s is only 13 percent.

Paul Ryan Needs Trump More Than Trump Needs Ryan | FiveThirtyEight

 

[pgs]

House Speaker Paul Ryan is not a big fan of Donald Trump — that much is clear.

He refused to back Trump during the Republican primaries and then held out on endorsing him even after Trump became the presumptive nominee. But eventually, Ryan did get behind Trump. And now, even after video of Trump bragging about being able to commit sexual assault has come to light, Ryan said he won’t defend Trump, but he has refused to unendorse the GOP nominee. Trump responded by attacking Ryan on Twitter.

A reasonable person might ask why, if Ryan was reluctant to support Trump to begin with, the speaker of the House isn’t washing his hands of the whole Trump campaign.

But the answer is simple: Republican voters like Trump; Ryan risks losing the support of rank-and-file GOPers if he hits Trump too hard.

Trump is more popular among Republicans right now than Ryan is. In the most recent YouGov poll, for example, Trump’s net favorability rating (the percentage of respondents who rate him favorably minus the share who have an unfavorable opinion) among Republican primary voters was +36 percentage points. Ryan’s was just +16 points. Perhaps more telling is that Trump’s “very favorable” rating among this group is 34 percent, while Ryan’s is only 13 percent.

Paul Ryan Needs Trump More Than Trump Needs Ryan | FiveThirtyEight

Well Ryan is an insider and Trump is an outsider .

 

[tay]

Paul Ryan is famously described as what Republicans think a smart person sounds like. But sometimes the speaker of the House outsmarts himself.

Ryan lectured Young Republicans in his native Wisconsin last Friday, and the national news media were invited to listen along. The speaker wanted to make the case for Republican voters to turn out and back GOP congressional candidates, even if they can’t stomach their party’s scandal-plagued presidential ticket. Implicit in Ryan’s argument was the suggestion that a Republican-controlled House of Representatives and Senate could be counted on to obstruct Hillary Clinton’s supposedly “liberal progressive” agenda.

But in a question-and-answer session following his unremarkable speech, Ryan inadvertently made a case for liberals and progressives to turn out in big numbers in order to elect Democratic candidates in the fight for control of the Senate.

As he outlined his Wall Street–friendly proposals for tax reforms that would more rapidly redistribute wealth upward, and for budgets that would put vulnerable Americans at greater risk while increasing burdens for middle-class families, the speaker explained that his agenda can advance only if Republicans control both the House and Senate. “If we keep control of the Senate in the Republican hands…a nice guy named Mike Enzi from Wyoming is the Senate budget chair and he helps us get these budgets to the president’s desk, gets these tax bills through,” he said.

On the other hand, Ryan warned, “If we lose the Senate, do you know who becomes chair of the Senate Budget Committee? A guy named Bernie Sanders. You ever heard of him?”

Ryan’s comment drew a tepid response from the Young Republicans he was lecturing. No surprise there. Polling suggests that Bernie Sanders is among the most well-regarded political figures in the country, especially among younger voters, and the long-time independent generates far less partisan antipathy than veteran Democrats.

But when word got out that Ryan was rattled by Sanders, the response from around the country was electric. People who might have been having a hard time getting excited about the presidential race were most intrigued by the possibility that Sanders might become a powerhouse in the Senate

The possibility is real enough.

That prospect scares Paul Ryan.

https://www.thenation.com/article/p...emocratic-senate-budget-chair-bernie-sanders/

 

[Kreskin]

I noticed Ryan is talking a lot about economic and constitutional issues. That is outrageous!

 

[Remington1]

If Ryan ever wants to be president, he will need to pull his endorsement of Trump asap. Women will never forget that Ryan stood behind a 59 year old assh ole who confessed that he used his so call fame to abuse women. If Trump needs the women votes, so will Ryan.

 

[Corduroy]

Ryan might have a hard time ever getting the Republican nomination if he dumps Trump. The people who unendorsed Trump last week are facing a huge backlash from the Republican base. Trump is more popular among Republicans than congressional Republicans. They gambled this wouldn't be the case and they lost.

 

[davesmom]

Paul Ryan and other Republicans are fence-sitters where Trump is concerned. One day they support Trump, next day they pull their support, then later they support him again. It's all in how the wind is blowing at the time.
They are all looking out for themselves, regardless of which way the election goes they can say, 'I supported him' or 'I didn't support him'.