Paul Ryan Clinches Speaker Nomination in Stunning Landslide
Lean In Award of the Day winner Paul Ryan won the Republican nomination for Speaker of the House Wednesday in a stunning landslide for the job literally no one else wanted.
Ryan—who recently changed his name to Paul D. Ryan in an what I can only assume was an homage to his favorite Jersey Shore character—clinched the nomination over Rep. Daniel Webster (R-FL) 200-43. The House is expected to approve his nomination Thursday, thus ending a chapter of the most frenzied Capitol speculation since Harry Reid got all those bruises.