In November, we will learn whether the whole era of small-government Republican partisanship that coalesced in the Tea Party will fade with Ryan, too. The country will be better off now that Ryan has less influence. Whether his party will be better without him is not as clear. In Washington, insiders believe the next Speaker will be either the transactional House majority leader, Kevin McCarthy, of California, or the more stringent conservative Whip, Steve Scalise, of Louisiana, who last year was shot in an assassination attempt at a congressional baseball practice.
They now find themselves under pressure—facing protests and electoral challenges—from coalitions organized largely by high-achieving women. At his press conference, Ryan hedged a bit about the nature of his departure. He emphasized that his kids are all teen-agers, and that he wanted to be at home with them, but of course adolescence is a temporary condition. For now, the soon-to-be-ex-Speaker is headed back to Wisconsin, a good place to ride out a wave: just after Ryan announced his retirement, election analysts at the University of Virginia and The Weekly Standard suggested that his safe congressional seat was now a tossup.
But politics is changing quickly right now. He may not have a recognizable party to return to. By Benjamin Wallace-Wells.
By Ryan Lizza. By Amy Davidson Sorkin. Instead, he tried to rush through legislation in a single week that the Heritage Foundation, the Koch brothers, the AARP, the American Medical Association — basically every think tank and interest group on either side of the aisle — vehemently opposed. It was ridiculous and amateurish.
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Hating work is having a moment By Rani Molla. Be a good person. Set a good example. Those of us around him really helped to stop him from making bad decisions. Of course, none actually succeeded in serving as a real moderating influence. Worse, they lent a veneer of normalcy to a president who was decidedly not. In one anecdote, the House Speaker receives an early-morning phone call from then-chief of staff Reince Priebus asking him to read a tweet the president had just fired off.
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