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(s)Elections See other (s)Elections Articles Title: ESTABLISHMENT eGOP RINOS LINING UP TO TAKE BONER'S THRONE Several Republicans who aren’t as closely associated with outgoing House Speaker The two who have, at this time, the most likely ability to unite the GOP conference and achieve well more than the necessary 218 votes on the House floor are House Energy and Commerce Committee vice chairwoman “Marsha has heard from a lot of people who are encouraging her to run,” Blackburn spokesman Mike Reynard told Breitbart News on Friday. “Right now she is listening and having conversations with her colleagues about what is the best way to unite our conference moving forward.” Blackburn, who would if elected be the first female GOP Speaker of the House ever, will be joining Breitbart News Sunday on SiriusXM Patriot Ch. 125 on Sunday evening to discuss this topic in greater depth. A House GOP aide also confirmed to Breitbart News that Roskam is considering a bid for the Speakership. A former member of leadership, he lost the bid for House Majority Whip to current Whip Unlike Ryan, who the conservative base universally despises–thanks to his backing of amnesty, reflected in the endorsement for the Speakership from Democrat amnesty king Sources close to Zinke also confirm to Breitbart News that members of the House GOP conference have encouraged him to run for Speaker, citing his experience assembling elite Navy SEAL units. Zinke is a freshman from Montana and former Commander at SEAL Team Six. It would be difficult for a freshman member to win the speakership, but these are certainly interesting times. And given the craziness of everything going on in the House, somebody like Zinke—who literally called Hillary Clinton the “anti-Christ” on the campaign trail and, before it was in vogue, supported building a wall on the U.S. border with Mexico for national security reasons—could get the House focused back on what conservatives want it focused on: exposing the president and fighting as hard as Republicans can. Ryan’s already having problems reaching 218 votes, and even “I think we get close,” Mulvaney replied when asked by Face The Nation’s John Dickerson whether Ryan has enough support to get over the finish line right now. In fact, Ryan—back in 2012 as the House Budget Committee chairman, right after the election—was the first committee chairman to engage in retaliation against conservatives. Because Reps. Ryan would also, as several conservatives have pointed out, support amnesty for illegal aliens and open border policies. He has for years championed the cause of the open-borders left wing, violating the principle requirements of a next Speaker of the House as put forward by Rep. David Brat (R-VA). Number three on Brat’s list of principles the next speaker should support is: “Support policies that secure the border and enable interior enforcement while opposing amnesty for illegal immigrants.” Ryan is adamantly opposed to those policies. Ryan’s championing of the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) bank bailout in 2008 would violate Brat’s fourth principle: “Urge all committees to advance agendas based on limited government, economic opportunity, and fiscal responsibility.” Several senior House conservative aides have told Breitbart News that they expect there would be a concerted, public and organized effort to take Ryan down on the floor should he run for Speaker—just like there was with Boehner and McCarthy. Ryan faces the same problems as McCarthy did—and conservatives aren’t going to agree to a coronation for him. Most conservatives, while they think of Ryan as a “nice guy” who they can “talk to,” view him as part of the same cabal they are trying to throw out: Boehner’s team. “Just what I know from the McCarthy possibility, is that it could if it accompanied an actual conservative Majority Leader/whip/etc and reforms to the House Rules to limit the power of the speakership,” one aide said of what Ryan would have to do to ascend. “That was McCarthy’s only chance but he bowed out before it was possible.” Despite his portrayal by the media as being conservative, most actual conservatives in the House know that Ryan isn’t a conservative. He’s served as a leadership envoy to conservatives for the past many years but has really been a champion of big government. In addition to helping Boehner retaliate against conservatives, he’s helped push through President Barack Obama’s Obamatrade agenda, he pushed through a budget deal with Most other conservative members who opposed Boehner and wouldn’t get behind McCarthy won’t support Ryan, staffers for them tell Breitbart News. It’s important to note that Mulvaney and Jordan were both originally unsupportive of Meadows’ effort to remove Boehner as Speaker—Mulvaney eventually publicly backed Meadows but Jordan never did—so the idea that either speaks for the entire conservative wing of the party just isn’t accurate. The number of Republicans opposed to Boehner was well more than 30—the bare minimum to force him to lose his job or rely on Democrats to stay—and the number that didn’t immediately line up behind McCarthy was as high as 50 maybe more. Some sources estimate that McCarthy only had 190 votes locked up—meaning that he would have lost nearly 60 Republicans, and would have failed to get the Speakership. Even if a handful of those who were against McCarthy go to Ryan, Ryan would still have an extraordinarily tough road to hoe to get to 218 votes. So, with all that said, what would Ryan have to give up to get to 218 votes? Would he have to promise no amnesty against his personal principles? Would he need to promise no more TARP bailouts against his personal principles? Would he have to decentralize power away from the Speaker’s office against his personal history? Would he have to agree to stop Speaker-of-the-House retaliation against conservatives—or anyone, really—for voting their conscience, like he helped Boehner do? Ryan would probably need to agree to all of those things, and that’s likely to make him uncomfortable—not to mention the harsh fundraising schedule he’d have to keep, something his young family doesn’t want. So, since Ryan isn’t going to be coronated, there’s certainly going to be a fight on the floor if he does run, and it’s at least at this time looking likely—for the same reasons Boehner and McCarthy lost their races for Speaker—that Ryan won’t get to 218, why would he throw away his appearance of relevancy in the political world by risking it all on a gamble election for the Speakership? If Ryan ran and lost, he’d almost certainly have to resign from Congress. If he ran and won, those who voted for him—especially from conservative districts—would nearly certainly face drastic consequences at the polls down the road for risking it all by voting for a pro-amnesty, Luis Gutierrez-backed Paul Ryan. 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"The chaos know embroiling the Republican caucus in the House stems from one key failing: D.C. Republicans refuse to allow a conservative into the ranks of House Leadership. Moreover, they refuse accept any reforms to the rules that allow them to dictate the legislative actions of the House." "So you see that the insider elites are bound together not by ideology, but by class. If they were bound together by ideology there wouldn’t be a Republican in the establishment in Washington, there wouldn’t be a Republican lead allowed in. But the establishment in Washington is made up of people of both parties. The people not in it are conservatives, but Republicans, moderate level Republicans, liberal Republicans, communist Republicans, and all Democrats are in the establishment. Conservative Republicans aren’t." Sounds like a two-headed snake slithering towards common goals to me.....
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