memeorandum: Ryan to proceed with speaker bid (Lauren French/Politico)

12:10 AM ET, October 22, 2015

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Tarini Parti / BuzzFeed:

Hardline Republicans To Paul Ryan: Family Time Isn't In The Job Description For Speaker — WASHINGTON — Hardline conservatives were skeptical of Rep. Paul Ryan's potential bid for speaker almost immediately after he announced it, but it's not just differences in policy or process they are wary of.

Discussion: Washington Post, The Federalist, Daily Kos, New York Times, Liberaland and Taylor Marsh

Lauren French / Politico:

Ryan to proceed with speaker bid — Rep. Paul Ryan will proceed with plans to run for House speaker despite not securing the formal endorsement of the House Freedom Caucus.Ryan's decision, which came after a high-stakes meeting with the group of hard-line conservatives earlier in the day …

Discussion: RedState, Erick on the Radio and Talking Points Memo

Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:

10 Freedom Caucus Members Publicly Reject Paul Ryan, Enough To Doom His Candidacy For Speaker — Paul Ryan has a big obstacle standing the way of becoming House Speaker: Math. — As a condition of him accepting the position of House Speaker, Ryan laid out a list of demands.

Discussion: The Slot

Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:

‘Supermajority’ of House Freedom Caucus to back Paul Ryan's speaker bid — Hard-line conservatives cleared a path late Wednesday for Rep. Paul Ryan to become House speaker, heralding a possible end to weeks of Republican leadership turmoil. — The decision to support Ryan …

Discussion: Daily Wire, Power Line, The Slot, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Political Wire and Associated Press

The Hill:

GOP to elect Speaker next week; conservatives skeptical of Ryan — Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) is getting a cool reception from House conservatives, whom he said must endorse him before he'll agree to run for Speaker. — Leaders of the House Freedom Caucus and their conservative allies …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Politico and Associated Press

Nick Gass / Politico: Conservative media mocks ‘Emperor Ryan’

Bryce Covert / ThinkProgress:
Paul Ryan Wants To Preserve His Work/Family Balance While Making It Harder For Poor Parents

Discussion: The Slot, addictinginfo.org, Slantpoint, New Republic, Daily Kos, Raw Story, PolicyShop, The Huffington Post and Associated Press

Jake Sherman / Politico:
Ryan refines pitch to conservatives

Discussion: Hot Air and Patterico's Pontifications

Lachlan Markay / Washington Free Beacon:
Ryan: No Immigration Reform While Obama Is President

Discussion: Weekly Standard, Hot Air, Politico and Independent Journal

Annie Karni / Politico:

How Clinton boxed out Biden — Scratch Joe Biden off Brooklyn's list of worries. The announcement Wednesday afternoon that Biden would not enter the presidential race removed another hurdle for Hillary Clinton, whose string of good fortune was kicked off by a strong Oct. 13 debate performance …

Discussion: Political Wire

Nate Cohn / New York Times:

Joe Biden Ran in the Invisible Primary, and Lost to Hillary Clinton — For all her struggles with poll numbers and the email investigation this year, Hillary Rodham Clinton has done one thing really well: dissuade mainstream opponents by dominating the invisible primary …

Discussion: Washington Post, Presidential Power, Associated Press, Bloomberg View, US News and Vox

New York Times:

Joe Biden Will Not Run for President in 2016 — WASHINGTON — Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. said Wednesday that he would not be a candidate in the 2016 presidential campaign, bringing to a close a three-month exploration that began shortly after the death of his eldest child and threatened to fracture the Democratic Party.

Discussion: CNN, Washington Post, Guardian, The American Conservative, Mother Jones, NPR, Outside the Beltway, Defense One, Ben Swann's Truth In Media and CANNONFIRE

New York Times:
Transcript of Joe Biden's Remarks on Not Running for President

Discussion: US News and CNN

Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
What Hillary's claim that Republicans are her ‘enemies’ is really about

Discussion: Politico, The Week, PoliticusUSA, Hullabaloo, The Hill, Bloomberg Business, Daily Kos, Salon, Bloomberg.com news and Washington Free Beacon

Nick Gass / Politico:
Biden not running for president

Emily Atkin / ThinkProgress:

Proof That The Benghazi Investigation Is Totally Unlike Any Other, In Two Charts — On Thursday, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will testify in front of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, where Republicans will try to prove that the former secretary of state mishandled …

Discussion: USA Today and Hullabaloo

Lanny Davis / The Hill: Three questions Benghazi Republicans should ask — and why they probably won't

Nick Gass / Politico:
Donald Trump criticizes Trey Gowdy

Discussion: BizPac Review, Bloomberg.com news and Hullabaloo

Niels Lesniewski / Roll Call:
Senate Democrats Demand RNC Pay for Benghazi Probe

Discussion: Mediaite and Talking Points Memo

Jodi Rudoren / New York Times:

Netanyahu Draws Broad Criticism After Saying a Palestinian Inspired Holocaust — Mr. Netanyahu said in a speech to the Zionist Congress on Tuesday night that “Hitler didn't want to exterminate the Jews at the time, he wanted to expel the Jews,” according to a transcript provided by his office.

Discussion: Jihad Watch, Pamela Geller, Raw Story, Daily Wire, American Spectator, The Daily Caller, Mother Jones, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Political Wire and The Jawa Report

i24news:
Germany in response to Netanyahu: We are responsible for Holocaust

Discussion: Associated Press, NPR, The Free Thought Project and Liberaland

Haaretz:
Netanyahu: Hitler Didn't Want to Exterminate the Jews

Discussion: Guardian, addictinginfo.org, NBC News, France 24 and Talking Points Memo

Ynetnews:
Historians, politicians slam PM's ‘distortion of history’

Discussion: Guardian, Haaretz, Washington Post, The Week, Power Line, ThinkProgress and Mother Jones

Peter Beaumont / Guardian:
Anger at Netanyahu claim Palestinian grand mufti inspired Holocaust

Discussion: Mondoweiss, Algemeiner.com and The Great Debate

Dan Balz / Washington Post:

Trump maintains lead in GOP presidential race; Carson second — Businessman Donald Trump continues to maintain his hold atop the contest for the Republican presidential nomination, with retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson keeping a clear grip on second place and the rest of the large field scrambling …

Discussion: Power Line, Christian Science Monitor, FiveThirtyEight, Washington Examiner, Hot Air and RedState

NBC News:
First Read: 'We Don't Like Our Candidates Very Much'

Discussion: Washington Post, PoliticusUSA and NBC News

Ben Gittleson / ABC News:
Donald Trump Still Loved by Republicans Who Call Him Divisive and Sometimes ‘an Idiot’

Discussion: Talking Points Memo

Julie Phelan / ABC News:
Donald Trump Leads in Expectations, Shows Strength on Attributes (POLL)

Discussion: Hot Air, Washington Post, The Last Refuge, Outside the Beltway, Daily Kos, New York Times, RedState, Daily Wire, Independent Journal, Washington Monthly, abc7news.com, Daily Mail, New York Post, VodkaPundit, Shakesville, The Atlantic, Hit & Run and Talking Points Memo

TMZ.com:

Khloe Kardashian, Lamar Odom Call Off Divorce ... We're Giving Marriage a Second Chance — Khloe and Lamar have jointly gone to court to dismiss their divorce case, because they want to stay husband and wife ... TMZ has learned. — Khloe's lawyer Laura Wasser went before a judge Wednesday morning …

Discussion: Daily Mail, Hollywood Life and fox8.com

WikiLeaks:

CIA Director John Brennan emails — Today, 21 October 2015 and over the coming days WikiLeaks is releasing documents from one of CIA chief John Brennan's non-government email accounts. Brennan used the account occasionally for several intelligence related projects.

Discussion: NBC News, Politico, Shadowproof, The Verge, Mother Jones, Independent Journal, Common Dreams, Hit & Run, The Week and Mediaite

Frank Newport / Gallup:

Majority Say More Concealed Weapons Would Make U.S. Safer — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — PRINCETON, N.J. — A majority of Americans, 56%, believe that if more Americans carried concealed weapons after passing a criminal background check and training course, the country would be safer.

Discussion: CNN, Townhall.com, Hot Air, The Daily Caller and Washington Free Beacon

Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
In U.S., 58% Back Legal Marijuana Use

Discussion: Plain Dealer, US News, NBC News, Guardian, The Daily Caller, Smell the Truth, Washington Post, Outside the Beltway, Drug Policy Alliance and New York Times

James Hibberd / EW.com:

MYTHBUSTERS TO END WITH FINAL SEASON — Exclusive: Adam Savage, Jamie Hyneman react to Discovery's longest-running series concluding in separate interviews — There's no debunking this one: The next season of Discovery's Mythbusters will be its last, EW has learned exclusively.

Discussion: Boing Boing, Polygon, The Verge, Just Jared, Friendly Atheist and CBS San Francisco

Ben Collins / The Daily Beast:

‘Back to the Future’ Writer: Biff Tannen Is Based on Donald Trump — Yes, today, October 21st, 2015, is the day Marty McFly and Doc Brown traveled to in Back to the Future Part II. The film's architect, Bob Gale, opens up about his prescient film. — There's a very specific analog between Biff Tannen …

Discussion: Mediaite, addictinginfo.org, Daily Wire, Towleroad, Los Angeles Times and The Daily Caller

Ray Rivera / WCSC-TV:

Cops: Teen who lost tongue in sexual assault charged as an adult — By Lisa Weismann — Police say the 16-year-old who got his tongue bitten off while sexually assaulting a woman during a home invasion is being charged as an adult. — Antoine Miller has been charged …

Discussion: WREG-TV, Fox News, Independent Journal, Slantpoint, New York's PIX11, CrimeFeed and Daily Mail

Jessica Taylor / NPR:

Meet The People Who Gave Money To Lincoln Chafee's Campaign — What motivates someone to give money to a foundering, long-shot campaign? — Just 10 people have given to Lincoln Chafee's presidential campaign. By contrast, more than 650,000 people have donated to Bernie Sanders.

Discussion: The Week, The Slot and Washington Free Beacon