Lawmaker Says Rumor Swirling That Ryan Will Resign

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Lawmaker Says Rumor Swirling That Ryan Will Resign; Speaker’s Aide Says Otherwise

A Nevada lawmaker says Capitol Hill is buzzing with a rumor that House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) will soon resign and be replaced by Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.).

But Ryan’s team quickly responded to the speculation, saying there were no plans for the Wisconsin lawmaker to step down anytime soon.

“The rumor mill is that Paul Ryan is getting ready to resign in the next 30 to 60 days and that Steve Scalise will be the new Speaker,” Rep. Mark Amodei (R-Nev.) told the website Nevada Newsmakers on Monday. “Now that is interesting because nobody has talked to members [of the House] on how they are going to vote [on new leadership]. Now, maybe they have talked to all of the members but me. I don’t know, so that is the rumor mill from last week.”

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/paul-ryan-resignation-rumors_us_5ab97262e4b0decad04d1b2d

Wouldn't surprise me in the least.

[SummerSnow]

1. he won't and can't stand up to Trump

[brush]

9. He's been ineffectual, gutless and soulless. He's been on the government dole...

Social Security, since his father died when he was in school, after that he has worked for and been collecting gov. checks for all his working life.

His only accomplishment, which made him absolutely giddy was passing the tax scam bill. He still wants to get rid of Obamacare, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid—the social safetynet— which took care of him when he was a teen.

What a guy. I hope this scum doesn't retire but gets beaten badly in the November election and suffers that public humiliation.

[bullwinkle428]

2. You KNOW the asshole is looking at internal polling every day.

A defeat at the hands of Randy Bryce would absolutely destroy every last one of his twisted dreams.

[regnaD kciN]

4. But how would stepping down as Speaker help him in November...?

If anything, it would seem that the "the Speaker of the House is from our district!" factor would boost his vote; if he's just an ordinary Congresscritter, he would lose some of his prestige in the eyes of local voters.

Or would he be stepping down altogether? Hard to see how he could further his goals by doing so, unless he concluded Trump was so doomed that he could stage a successful primary campaign against him in 2020 as the "real conservative" or "rational Republican."

[PubliusEnigma]

3. So mote it be.

[czarjak]

5. Tax cuts, mission accomplished...

[Exotica]

6. Despite Being Gunned Down at Baseball Practice and Saved by a Lesbian Cop, Rep. Steve Scalise Is

Still Pro-Gun and Anti-LGBTQ

https://www.vogue.com/article/steve-scalise-gunned-down-saved-lesbian-cop-still-pro-gun-anti-lgbt

In June, Louisiana Rep. Steve Scalise was shot at a congressional baseball practice and saved, in part, by Capitol Police officer Crystal Griner, who is a lesbian in a same-sex marriage. But despite his own harrowing experience—Scalise is still using walkers after suffering a shattered femur and serious damage to his hip and pelvis—the conservative Republican congressman remains pro-gun and anti-LGBTQ.

On Sunday’s Meet the Press, Scalise made clear that neither being shot himself nor the recent Las Vegas mass shooting could change his mind about gun rights. “Don’t try to put new laws in place that don’t fix these problems,” Scalise, the House majority whip, said. “They only make it harder for law-abiding citizens to own a gun.” Scalise went on to cite the Founding Fathers’ strong belief in the right to bear arms (curiously, though, no mention of the Third Amendment and their related belief that citizens should not have to quarter soldiers), and when asked by host Chuck Todd if the Second Amendment should be seen as “unlimited,” Scalise nodded: “It is.”

Scalise is similarly standing by his vehement opposition to same-sex marriage and LGBTQ rights as espoused before the shooting. Despite thanking Griner in his emotional return to the House of Representatives last month—saying she and Capitol Police officer David Bailey “not only saved my life but the lives of others in the chamber” and calling the officers “part of our family”—Scalise will speak this Friday at the Values Voter Summit hosted by the Family Research Council (FRC), a conservative Christian think tank that opposes LGBTQ rights and whose stated mission is to “advance faith, family, and freedom in public policy and the culture from a Christian worldview.” If Scalise truly considers Griner family, this sure is a funny way of showing it.

[WheelWalker]

7. Get his passport on his way out the door.

[Leghorn21]

10. Right on, WW - you can run, but you cant hide, motherfucker.

Mr. Mueller & Co. know all your particulars, so don’t even try it. BOOM

[WhiteTara]

8. Mueller is closing in and Bryce is breathing down his neck

he's really a coward and maybe thinks he'll escape notice if he leave DC.