Folks, one of two things is true. Either Representative Paul Ryan doesn't want the job of Speaker of the House, or he's got a pretty inflated opinion of himself.

It's difficult to explain Ryan's bizarre set of demands any other way. He issued them on Tuesday night, and he said that we all had to basically fulfill all of his dreams in order for him to run for a speaker.

He says that he'll only run if he has a pre-commitment from every single faction within the Republican caucus for his speakership, including the Freedom Caucus. Those are the people who are really instrumental in getting rid of John Boehner and getting rid of Kevin McCarthy. All that's kind of fine and dandy. Everybody running, of course, would love to have unanimous support. Ryan also says he wants to return to what is called regular order.

That's where all bills move through committee before they're introduced on the floor.

He wants separate votes on appropriations bills as opposed to governing through continuing resolution,

which of course is all fine too.

And then we get into Dicey Territory.

Then we get into Dicey Territory.

And here's the Dicey Territory. The Dicey Territory. Then we get into Dicey Territory. And here's the Dicey Territory.

The Dicey Territory is that Paul Ryan wants a rule removed that would actually allow Republicans

to bring what is essentially a vote of no confidence against him if he does something wrong.

So he wants them to basically swear loyalty to him before he even starts his Speaker of the House and say they'll never get rid of him.

Now, the job of the Speaker of the House is to unify members of Congress behind conservatism.

It's not the job of conservatives to unify the Speaker of the House in blanket fashion.

But that's not stopping Paul Ryan.

That's not stopping Paul Ryan in any real way, which brings up the question as to why exactly Republicans should back this play. Now, I understand there are a lot of people who resonate to Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan. They think that Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are the BL Endall. They're just the most wonderful people who ever lived, and we need a young, vibrant leader like Paul Ryan. Never mind that Paul Ryan backed Tarp and was a moving force behind the trouble assets relief program. Never mind that he backed the auto bailouts. Never mind that he backed amnesty. The only thing that really matters is we must have Paul Ryan. But I don't care whether you like him or whether you don't. The only real question is why anybody should be trusted with that kind of power, especially because Ryan, he doesn't even want to campaign. He doesn't want to go out and campaign. He wants weekends off, which is fine. But what he really wants is the ability to do whatever he wants here. Conservatives shouldn't grant Ryan that sort of power simply in order to make him the speaker. Signing a procedural blank check to anybody, no matter how trustworthy they appear.

That's a recipe for disaster.

And holding the speaker accountable should be an unbreakable rule for conservatives.

Again, folks, the Speaker of the House, his job is to be conservative and unify members of Congress behind that.

It's not the job of all the Republicans to get behind the speaker no matter what he does

signing blank checks to politicians based on promises that they'll do good stuff that's a democrat

thing doing it for paul ryan makes no sense i'm ben shapiro this is the ben shapiro show

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