Big Government: House Ways and Means Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)
is making the necessary preparations to become Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives later this week.
According to the Washington Post, he has tapped D.C. powerbroker David Hoppe to become his chief of staff, assuming he wins next week. There is expected to be some resistance to Ryan’s efforts to ascend, but since the House Freedom Caucus has abandoned its original principles in negotiating for a House Speaker, it’s unlikely Ryan will be stopped from his ascension to the position.
“The hiring was finalized after Hoppe and Ryan, both Wisconsin natives and proteges of the late New York congressman Jack Kemp, had conversations about Ryan’s desire to staff the speaker’s office with seasoned aides who are also deeply familiar with conservatism, according to people briefed on the talks,” the Washington Post’s Bob Costa writes.
Senior conservative movement leaders tell Breitbart News they are wary of a lobbyist, but Hoppe does have a somewhat decent relationship with those connected to the ouster of outgoing House Speaker Rep. John Boehner (R-OH). While none are criticizing him on record as of yet, they are skeptical this is going to work—but are open to the possibility. Hoppe is going to need to aggressively make overtures to conservatives quickly if he is going to be able to secure the position and help Ryan with his ascension to power instead of battling his own history much like Ryan has had to do—and much like Ryan will continue to have to do moving forward. more here
“…but since the House Freedom Caucus has abandoned its original principles in negotiating for a House Speaker…”
The path is cleared for Uni-Party amnesty.
“Abandoned” – good word to describe the condition of regular, working class, patriotic American conservatives.
Our vote means as much as a fart & a holler in a windstorm.
Fucking beautiful-why dance around, just go ahead and knife us right in the eye.
We have no representation in DC-WTHell happens to these people? Why aren’t the few honest guys raising bloody murder?
My Congressman here in w Texas is a BoehnerLand butt boy-won’t even respond to anything I write-he reps the big money in Midland and could give a fuck about any of pee-ons.
We’re just about to the shooting part of this dance.
The Mensheviks are raising their ugly heads …
And Ryan will carry on Boner’s legacy by giving Obama or sHrillary or whatever democRat is in there everything they want. It seems America is on the path to self destruct.
Ryan ain’t a favorite son of the gopE for nothing! He can crony with the best of them!
prepare for more capitulation and RINO power brokers.
The “only” winners are the gop establishment and the democrat progressives.
I am told by my “betters” that it’s hypocritical to support Ryan as VP but not as SofH. Ummm…..not the same thing. Other option was Obama/Biden. Include the anti-conservative positions he’s held since……I am tired of conservatives having to “settle” because “nobody’s perfect” and I’m just a “purist”. Why doesn’t the GOP ever have to settle? Why can’t they be the ones to “suck it up” and support the candidate they don’t really want? Some big tent.
Say NO to Ryan. He is NO conservative.
It is written in the GOP wind, passed from the gassy-ass bags of The House.
Why does any citizen think for a second that their representative will LISTEN to the unrest of the peons? They have run the government into the ground and filled their pockets with as much get away money as they can.
Want a good example of how Washington is? Watch ELYSIUM. All laid out there. Downtrodden slums, obamacare medical, immigrant flooded earth, compared to the political sanctuary of Elysium.
All there like the commie bastards are laying out for us.
The only way to get rid of Ryan is to make sure the people in his district pull an Eric Cantor on him, and vote his ass out next year.
“Why aren’t the few honest guys raising bloody murder?”
There aren’t any. They are all complicit.