only scares you is only bad if he s scared of it and he said he s not scared of it. we ve seen how it s wielded in the past. he should be scared of it. the reality is the concessions he s making will make him weaker and there s no way around that very crucial fact. not even talking about this vote to oust a potential speaker but also the fact that all of a sudden he has to put freedom caucus aligned members on committees like budget like appropriations, like the rules committee. those kinds of concessions really make a strong difference in how you can govern, legislate. the rules speaker is supposed to be the speaker s committee, they dictate how the bills come up. so he is looking at a weaker speakership if he can pull this off. manu said at the end, you ve been trying for two months to get the votes. i think it speaks to why wasn t there a bigger push like this a month ago to avoid a scene like this on the floor. i think it s remarkable he went to the floor k
speakership if he can pull this off. manu said at the end, you ve been trying for two months to get the votes. i think it speaks to why wasn t there a bigger push like this a month ago to avoid a scene like this on the floor. i think it s remarkable he went to the floor knowing he didn t have the votes and it never felt like the momentum was moving in his direction. this is back to 2015 when he bowed out of the speaker s race, folks got paul ryan to run, a reluctant speaker, he didn t want the job either. i think mccarthy looks back at that, seeing that ryan had some of the same problems he s experiencing now. so what is he going to do, step aside and let someone else get the job and in six months they re the enemy of the freedom caucus, the hard liners? last night one of the hard liners said whoever is going to be the speaker has to agree to
to have been president, but i think he s figured out that god has another plan in mind for him and that s to be speaker of the house. he s only, what, 45, 44 years old. 45. 45 years old. the question is this, if you re speaker of the house and do a good job, why can t you become president of the united states? look, anything is possible. it s just a lot harder to do. why? because it s a really messy job. you re really in the in this case of it and unless there are roses and rainbows and everything is great in the world, which is probably not likely, it s hard to do. one thing i just want to say, one more teaser, the why that john boehner described to me how he finally convinced paul ryan to run was very interesting and i ll just say that it had a lot to do with catholic guilt. catholic guilt. catholic guilt. the line to the president. he s closer to the presidency than ever. right. if you re a good speaker, you re going to make everybody angry
so congressman, why is this not a terrible idea, if paul ryan doesn t want it and some influential people in that caucus don t want him? well, paul has a national stature, having been our vice presidential nominee in 2012. i think many people look to representative ryan as perhaps that figure with national stature that can bring some unity to the conference. it s a tall order. i don t know whether he can do that, and as he as stressed time and time again, he has his dream job right now. he s the chairman of the waist & means, he s looking forward to rewriting a tax code with a republican president next year, so in many ways he has only down side from taking on this job. at the same time he recognizes his responsibility to the country, and my understanding is he came to a decision sometime this past week that if the conference wanted him, he would
of bipart sal collaboration and participation. i suspect some of the members who were critical of john boehner and kevin mccarthy will also be critical of paul ryan and may try to undermine him. that s my fear for paul. that s why paul has been guarded or hesitant in wanting to accept this position. we need to hear from paul ryan to see how he feels about this decision of the freedom caucus. i don t know how he ll take it. can i get your response to that matt salmon quote about you re try to hire a maid and the maid will only work certain hours. i found that such a strange metaphor. number one, we re talking about speaker of the house of the united states. people talking about this job in this way that just seems completely ahistorical. this is a job for i think it s safe to say hundreds of yours in other republic, people have done anything in their power to attain.