So, Paul Ryan Is Going To Be The Next Speaker Of The House

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RedState:

October 23, 2015

So, Paul Ryan Is Going To Be The Next Speaker Of The House —DrewM.

Having decided that his ring has been sufficiently kissed, Paul Ryan officially announced he will accept the position of Speaker of the House.

 

As is often the case in politics, everyone will find something they can hang their hat on to claim victory. For conservatives of the Freedom Caucus variety the fig leaf is a promise to open the legislative process to input from individual legislators. That was always the main goal of the Caucus, not necessarily a more conservative Speaker (Daniel Webster, the official choice of the group supports amnesty too).

 

So what would this new open process, "regular order", look like?

 

What currently happens is that leadership and its fellow actors – including committee chairs and industry lobbyists – decide where a bill ought to be on the ideological scale. More hardline conservative members think it needs to be much better, but leadership insists no, they know where the votes are, and the votes aren’t there for something better.

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Paul Ryan’s Impact on the GOP Is Only Beginning
Matthew Continetti
October 24, 2015

Rumble in the Jungle this was not.

 

On one side: Paul Ryan, who said he’d run for speaker of the House only if Republicans were unified, open to reforms, and respectful of his family life. On the other: the House Freedom Caucus, which had influenced John Boehner’s decision to retire and Kevin McCarthy’s withdrawal from consideration. The Freedom Caucus had a reputation. Combative, aggrieved, empowered.

 

And supportive of Ryan. Even the persnickety Justin Amash of Michigan endorsed him. That adversarial relationship between “conservatives” and “leadership” we had heard about for so long? It melted away. The encounter between the Wisconsin congressman and his colleagues wasn’t a fight. It wasn’t a negotiation. It was unification.

 

Now Ryan is on track to become, according to National Journal, “the most conservative House speaker in recent history.” But Ryan is more than his voting record. The speaker he reminds me of most is Newt Gingrich. Not personality-wise. Leadership-wise.

 

RELATED: How Paul Ryan Got from ‘Never’ to All In’ for Speaker

 

Both men framed the argument for their party long before ascending to the speaker’s chair. And if Ryan, like Gingrich, becomes speaker, we’re not talking about a mere transfer of power. We’re talking about a revolution.

 

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Paul Ryan Is Not Only A Conservative, He’s The 21st Century’s Most Important Conservative

 

 

Despite what you might read on Breitbart.com, not only is Paul Ryan 

58%

a conservative, he is arguably the most important conservative of the 21st Century.

 

In the recent past, this wouldn’t really be all that controversial of a statement. But with the Wisconsin congressman in the spotlight as the leading contender to become the next House Speaker, some on the right have taken the opportunity to trash Ryan as a Republican-In-Name-Only, often abbreviated as RINO!!!!!

 

The leader of the anti-Ryan movement has been Breitbart News. One reporter for the supposedly conservative news site has written more than a dozen misleading anti-Ryan opinion pieces masquerading as news articles since Oct. 9.

 

Breitbart Washington Editor Matthew Boyle, who has penned nearly a dozen anti-Ryan articles himself, absurdly claimed in one that Ryan was “universally” despised by the conservative base.

 

http://dailycaller.com/2015/10/26/paul-ryan-is-not-only-a-conservative-hes-the-21st-centurys-most-important-conservative/

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3 Reasons Paul Ryan Isn’t A Hypocrite For Voting Against Paid Leave

 

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan is running for Speaker of the House, and liberals are so scared they’re pulling out the big guns against him: their failed War on Women messaging. Friday’s newsfeed was full of stories attacking Ryan as a hypocrite for insisting he won’t sacrifice his family should he become speaker, taking money from opponents of forced paid leave, voting against government-mandated paid leave, all while personally offering paid leave to his staff.

 

http://thefederalist.com/2015/10/26/3-reasons-paul-ryan-isnt-a-hypocrite-for-voting-against-paid-leave/

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Two Members of House Freedom Caucus Explain Why Majority of Group Supports Paul Ryan for Speaker

 

On Sunday, two members of the House Freedom Caucus explained the group’s majority support for Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., to become the next House speaker.

 

The Daily Signal previously reported that the Freedom Caucus lacked the number of votes required to formally endorse Ryan for speaker, but a supermajority of its members have granted him their support.

 

On Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace asked Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, “You were going to demand all kinds of assurances from Ryan about changing House rules, almost none of which you got, so I guess the question is, why are you supporting Paul Ryan?”

 

“We do have a commitment from Paul to work on changing the rules, and we may get some of those changed before the vote this coming Wednesday and Thursday,” Jordan said. “So we think that’s a good step.”

 

http://dailysignal.com/2015/10/25/two-members-of-the-house-freedom-caucus-explain-why-a-majority-of-the-group-supports-paul-ryan-for-house-speaker/

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Inside Paul Ryan’s brain trust

 

Paul Ryan has been at the center of Washington politics for more than two decades, but his inner circle is small, close-knit and guarded.

 

With the Wisconsin Republican set to ascend to the Speaker’s office on Thursday, there’s been a scramble to identify Ryan’s closest friends in Congress and his most trusted advisers off Capitol Hill.

 

They’ll offer counsel to the 45-year-old presumptive Speaker as he seeks to unite his fractured conference and steer it through a raft of tricky legislative issues in a year when GOP presidential hopefuls are running hard against Washington.

His wife, Janna, a former Hill staffer and lobbyist, is probably his most trusted counselor; she played a key role in Ryan’s deliberations this month over whether to leave his dream job as Ways and Means Committee chairman and take a leadership post he claims he never wanted in the first place.

On Sunday, Ryan made his first official move as incoming Speaker, tapping Washington lobbyist and Hill leadership veteran David Hoppe as his chief of staff.

The self-described policy wonk is expected to fill out his team in the coming days, bringing on staffers from the Ways and Means Committee and Ryan’s congressional office, as well as other friends and allies he’s worked with since arriving in Washington as a lowly aide in 1992.

“He’ll be strong on policy, but who can he bring in to work the politics of the conference?” asked a senior House GOP aide. “Hoppe is a good first step, but he will need a lot more operators to be successful.”

 

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/258166-inside-paul-ryans-brain-trust

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Ryan and Pelosi’s challenge: Each other

 

Paul Ryan and Nancy Pelosi have some catching up to do.

 

The Speaker-in-waiting and House Democratic leader have been prominent voices in their respective parties for many years, but they have not, by all accounts, worked closely together — legislatively or otherwise.

 

Ryan’s (R-Wis.) expected ascension to Speaker this week will change those dynamics drastically, delivering a fresh face to the GOP and new hopes for unity in a divided Republican Conference.

The changing of the guard will also present Pelosi (D-Calif.) with a new negotiating partner — one whose budgets she’s long condemned as an assault on society’s most vulnerable.

 

Ryan, a former Budget Committee chairman who now leads the House tax-writing panel, has won plaudits in the GOP for his policy smarts and devotion to fiscal conservatism — an esteem that made him the GOP’s vice presidential candidate in 2012 and is soon to propel him to the Speaker’s chair, albeit reluctantly.

 

Pelosi and the Democrats have used Ryan’s budget plans, which featured steep cuts in domestic programs such as Medicare, as a campaign bludgeon to highlight what they consider the wrong-headed priorities of the Republican Party. Those criticisms are likely to intensify as Ryan takes the gavel.

 

“We have a ... person who knows the territory, knows the issues, so that’s helpful,” Pelosi said Thursday. “But also a clear distinction as to what our statement of values in a budget would be, versus what ... has been in the Ryan budget.”

 

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/258167-ryan-and-pelosis-new-challenge-each-other

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Ryan and Pelosi’s challenge: Each other