If Ryan's goal was to render House Intel impotent, no way he will replace Nunes unless....
So House Intel has now been rendered impotent, which seems to suit Ryan just fine; maybe this was his goal? He could have many motivations for this.
Nunes's actions certainly slowed things down, which could be to the Rs advantage in many ways, although in other ways, Nunes dug the hole deeper with his bumbling.
But the point is that people calling on Ryan to replace Nunes and he won't unless it becomes more of an advantage to replace him than to keep him there.
O'Donnell:
"The Nunes scandal is Paul Ryan’s scandal. That is why Ryan won’t remove him. Ryan is in it as deep as Nunes is. If Nunes can lose the chairmanship over it, Ryan can lose the speakership over it. "
O'Donnell keeps bringing up how Nunes is taking orders from Ryan (and then fell on his sword for Ryan), and how the media is almost completely overlooking this. People keep calling for Ryan to replace Nunes, but they don't seem to realize that Nunes acted under Ryan's direction. (see link to thread below for more on this)
Lots more in this thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028865654
O'Donnell again tonight showed clip of Ryan saying he "had to brief the speaker first" before going to WH. Asks, "Why are no reporters picking up on Ryan involvement in Nunes scandal? I’ve showed this clip three times of Nunes saying he had to brief the speaker before he did anything else, and yet no one is picking up on it."
"Ryan is at the center of the scandal. The press apparently didn’t hear it when he said it in the WH driveway when he said he first went to Ryan before going to the WH. Everything he did after that would have been at the direction of Ryan. "
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