Discussion for article #242028
Odd Man Out ---- Hahahahahahahaa
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Freedumbâ Caucus: âUp your nose with a rubber hose!â
bwwwwahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
Sorry, lilâ Paulieâ! You should have showed up in your maid uniform and ready to grovel.
(BTW: When Ryan is not batshitcrazy rightwing enough for you, youâre dealing with a whole new level of weapons grade and bullet proof batshitcrazy.
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Walk away, Paul, you laid out your terms and they said no to your terms. You are nuts if you take this job on their terms, and destroy your presidential ambitions in the process.
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In a caucus vote, about two-thirds of the members said they were comfortable supporting Ryan as speaker, according to those present. However, they did not reach the 80 percent support line that the caucus requires to give its endorsement. After the meeting members also said the group would not concede to the conditions Ryan has given publicly to accept the speakership.
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Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said Monday he worries that waiting until the last minute to raise the nationâs borrowing authority could result in an accident âthat would be terrible.â
Iâve never seen so many people (the âfreedomâ caucus) so willing to keep a speaker who desperately wants to retire.
Oh well.
Thirteen more daysâŚ
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And then there were noneâŚ
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Paul should play hardball with them and walk away from the negotiating table. The Freedumb caucus will spin its wheels for a while before crawling back to Paul and giving into his terms.
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Why this could drive Boehner to drink!
~rimshot!~
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Or it may perhaps even drive him to tears!
Ba-dum ching.
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Too late! Heâs heard the news!
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Heâs not going to play âhardballâ with them. If he walks, then he will likely stay gone from any consideration. No one needs that type of grief and if they are determined to keep Boehner in chargeâŚwell there you go.
Right now, Iâm just waiting on Peter King and the Main Street block of the party to pipe up. After all, King said âRyan or or he walksâ.
Well the stage is now Mr. Kingâs.
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"âWeâre not conceding to those, and he needs to decide if he can move forward,â Labrador said.â
Kinda like your lawyer in court saying do you want walk to the cell or be escorted ?
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[âWe are not meeting all his demands,â Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-SC) told
reporters,.âBut if he wants to be speaker, he has the votes as of
tonight.â]
Ryan looks out at his Tea Party colleagues whoâve arrived to greet him on his first day as SpeakerâŚand screams!
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And your credibility⌠You gave the conditions and they are not met. So are you a man of your word or not. On the other hand is compromise your new game?
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And now Ryan should publicly restate his conditions including that it is very important to him that he be the unity candidate in the Republican caucus. And further⌠now that we know that he will carry the vote in terms of a pure majority he should give his caucus a taste of how he is going to lead them by informing them that when the entire house meets to vote for him in the public session that he will ask that each Republican join him in a public display of unity. As the roll is called and the votes are cast he will listen to how each member votes and at the first Republican vote against him he will withdraw his name from the race.
If he doesnât do something like this right off the bat he is going to re-live the Boehner wars all over again.
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That was fast!
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Only 2/3 of the Freedom Caucus will support him. So, Ryanâs conditions havenât really been met. According to the Freedom Caucusâs rules, 80 percent of its members must agree for that to happen, and Ryan didnât get there.
Doesnât matter. No matter who ends up being speaker this will turn out badly.
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Paulie Walnuts will drive back and forth over the corpse of the house freedom caucus until it is good and flat 
Seriously, this is so too foreseeable. What else did Ryan expect? Iâd be surprised if he set his terms without any idea of whatâd be next.
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Ryanâs out. No one is in (just Boehner, for now). And the âfreedomâ caucus, in their lust and greed for the unreasonable, have just doomed the GOP. Who would have thought that a successful gerrymander would have backfired so beautifully?
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