Mick Mulvaney: Paul Ryan should step down as Speaker

[brooklynite]

Weekly Standard

On Sunday, White House budget director Mick Mulvaney strongly endorsed the idea that House speaker Paul Ryan should step down in order to trigger an election that would force House Democrats to vote for unpopular Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi.

At a conference in Colorado sponsored by THE WEEKLY STANDARD, Fox News host Bret Baier asked Mulvaney what he thought of the idea that Ryan should step down and allow his likely successor, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, to become speaker this year.

"I've talked with Kevin about this privately but not as much publicly,” Mulvaney replied. “Wouldn't it be great to force a Democrat running in a tight race to have to put up or shut up about voting for Nancy Pelosi eight weeks before an election? That's a really, really good vote for us to force if we can figure out how to do it."

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. So ANY criticism of Nancy ANY even the TINIEST bit will be a DIRECT help to

the GOP and in fact if you criticize her NOW you might as well be in the GOP.

[ProudLib72]

3. But...

Jonathan Swan of Axios reported Sunday that Kevin McCarthy’s “allies tell me they believe opponents are planting stories amping up the Ryan-McCarthy divide to ‘drive a wedge’ between the two men." But Mulvaney is not an enemy of McCarthy—he’s an ally.

As long as it's the GOP giving each other wedgies, it's a VERY good thing. If they can keep this up till November, it is sure to do some damage. And FFS, let the MSM highlight this division.

[riversedge]

2. Mick Mulvaney is just Another smelly pissant from the #TrumpSwamp

[Wellstone ruled]

4. Best discription of Mulvaney yet.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

5. Democrats voting for Nancy Pelosi?

Oh the horror!!!!


I know that that might play well with the Republican Rubes whom have been programmed by Fox News to hate her (because reasons) but, really, THAT'S their "plan"?

[Sneederbunk]

6. McCarthy has been rejected before. What has changed?