Republican leadership scramble to top Sunday talk shows

“And right now, that’s what we need because the Republicans never win… they never win”. Ryan’s “heart, his soul” is in policy and ideas, he said. “He’s the one guy if he announced, it would be a kind of take-out announcement”.

Price, if put in a leadership position, could look after the interests of both his own district and the state at large, Van Brink added. If that happens, we really do get chaos.

Frustration with the lack of progress in legislating is among the topics that have come to the forefront as congressional Republicans try to elect a new speaker.

A day later, there was exhaustion and unease.

He said he hopes the House will function more efficiently after the leadership shake-up. They worry that if he declines the opportunity, there is no clear alternative.

The 35- to 40-member conservative Freedom caucus, which prompted the current Republican leadership scramble, wants to weaken the office of the House speaker in a power grab, Rep. Peter King (R-Seaford) said on Friday.

But Webster was inspired to challenge Boehner largely because of how he has managed all of the fiscal battles with the White House and the Senate since becoming speaker.

Sen. Johnson knows family concerns are a major reason why Rep. Ryan may not want the job, but also understands why he would change his mind and do it.

The fate of House Republicans has been in the hands of about 40 out of 246 members. A few complained that he had stripped some conservatives from the House Budget Committee when he chaired that panel in the last Congress. Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) told 27 News Friday. All three men have high profiles as Republican leaders on Capitol Hill.

In the space of a week, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy went from presumptive speaker-in-waiting to out of the race entirely. McCarthy was seen unfavorably by many in the party’s conservative base as Boehner 2.0, and therefore unacceptable to the faction of the House that pushed Boehner to offer his resignation in the first place. He realized he was more vulnerable after U.S. Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va., lost the GOP primary past year.

Any lobbying from within the Texas delegation is limited. The speaker’s post, highly prestigious and second in line to the presidency, requires a huge commitment of time and effort in corralling a party’s House members.

If McCarthy stays in Congress and continues as House Majority Leader, there would be a chain reaction.

But would they support Rep. Paul Ryan? This seems unlikely, but if Republicans don’t have a majority – if the House Freedom Caucus members basically act as a separate party and prevent the regular Republicans from having 218 votes – then all bets are off, and what was just wild speculation all of a sudden become plausible.

There is the likelihood, however, that Boehner this month could advance a debt limit increase measure, whether the fight over his replacement is settled or not.