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The Pope showed him the fires of Hell.
It did cross my mind that something might have been said during his meeting with Francis that convinced him that it was time for him to go.
Papa got all Virgil on his orange ass.
You're right, the dust hasn't settled and who knows if Rep. McCarthy can hold things together or are we going to have a situation where the only way he can conduct business is if supports the extreme right wing positions held by the Freedom Caucus which that group will surely insist upon. All Speaker Boehner's resignation means is someone else will be leading his wing of the Republican House caucus in the inevitable showdown that is coming. The Freedom Caucus smells blood and their fanatical uncompromising positions means either Mr. McCarthy embraces their views or the House will remain deadlocked by the Republican caucus.
It won't happen but from the point of view of who various members agree with on policy and philosophy its time for the some of the Republicans to ally themselves with the House Democrats.
And right after the Pope encouraged them to play well in the sandbox. The radicals might hose things up for now but 2016 could turn out to be a good year for Pope proponents.
John Boehner was an epic failure as Speaker of the House. Laeadership is supposed to lead the party. Leadership is supposed to keep the wackos in check. The wackos in his party ran wild.
I doubt anyone else will do better. They encouraged, supported and pandered to the wackos for too long. There's no way the grown ups can control them now. Oh the grown ups still manage to get the presidential candidates they want (the wackos certainly didn't want McCain or Romney) but they can't control the House anymore and they'll never get to the magic number in the Senate with the wackos running loose.
Their chances of taking the WH are slim despite the limited Dem field and it's weakening frontrunner because if they can't do better with the Latino vote than Romney did, they can't win a presidential and the surging wackos are forcing everyone in the GOP field to say things that piss off Latinos.
A Cuban won't change the math for them because Cubans are the ony Latinos they've already got, their power is limited to Florida and even a lot of younger Cubans support opening up relations with Cuba. A truly moderate R could have given any Dem presidential candidate a very hard time right about now if the GOP hadn't ceded the asylum to the inmates years ago.
The crazies should be careful what they wish for.
This is going to be their moment. The confluence of a government shut down (over one or more of the following: Planned Parenthood, the Iran deal, and/or Obamacare) and a speaker election all inside of one month. It's political Armageddon. Behold a pale horse and upon him rode Ken Buck.
That last sentence should be up for best line of the month Frank.
LAMBORN FOR SPEAKER
As a former House whip, I, Frank Underwood, want to nominate a man of unmatched courage and leadership for speaker. The pride of the Centennial State…..Doug Lamborn!
Wasn't sure if it should be here or in Friday Jams, but…
EDITOR!
"The pump don't work, 'cause the vandals took the handles."
-Bob Dylan
Ted Cruz is gloating now, like a combination of Snidely Whiplash and Wile E. Coyote.
Boehner's legacy will be as the most ridiculous and ineffective House Speaker (yet? … oh, dog, help us!). He presided over nothing, except the running of the asylum by the lunatics!
Nonsense. Under his leadership, the House set a record on the number of times repeal of Obamacare could be voted upon
Records are meant to be broken.
I fear that Boehner's legacy will be as the last speaker to even try to make the House work. The last speaker before government by tantrum takes over. A 5 to 6 month shutdown is not inconceivable. First of all, because it's less government and FREEDOM. Second, because there can be no retreat from (insert conservative cause here).
As long as the shut down results in no paychecks being issued nor benefits dispensed to Congress members.
No, it'll work out as (finally) defunding Social Security, Obamacare (of course), Medicare, the EPA, any government function conservatives don't like. But no Republican congressman will miss a paycheck from the Empire of Koch.
Neither of our pet trolls have come in here to comment on this. They're probably still trying to see which way the wind is blowing (i.e., either Kevin McCarthy or a batshit crazy nut case to be designated later) and they'll then jump on the winning side.
Interestingly Frank. The entire Pols staff is off elk hunting by Meeker this week and out of electronic reach. Coincidence? You decide.
Not at all. Boehner had a long tenure as speaker, but it's time for new leadership. This was not a new decision, and there are plenty of good conservatives in line to replace him.
By leadership you mean even more complete obstruction (hard to imagine but possble) and refusing to make deals even though the votes aren't there to get past the Senate or Obama's desk. You know. Like with the endless waste of time votes to overturn ACA. Without rock ribbed conservative but not totally nuts Boehner absolutely nothing will get anywhere under the new more conservative (read bat shit crazy) leadership. It will either be a batshit crazy leader leading Congress nowhere or another slightly less crazy leader who will have even less success (extremely low bar) leading Congress anywhere than Boehner did because of the strengthened batshit crazies.
The Hill is reporting on its website that Representative Jeb Hensarling – not to be confused with the presidential candidate known as Jeb! – is considering a challenge to McCarthy.
In the running for McCarthy's current job are 3 white male presumptively heterosexual right wingers from red states: Steve Scalise from LA, Pete Sessions from TX, Tom Price from GA, and a woman (Cathy McMorris Rogers from WA). I'm guessing Scalise gets it.
There are a number of lesser tea baggers who are angling to move into Scalise's job once he makes the run for majority leader.
I haven't seen anything about a Coffman/Boehner fundraiser either. I doubt that's happening.
Probably not now, tool. You're right.
Maybe, just maybe, this is reason for optimism. Maybe this is a signal that, whatever must get done, must get done by the end of October when Boehner will resign. And maybe Boehner figures WTF, might as well govern….what are they going to do, fire me? You can't fire me – I QUIT!
Given a choice, I prefer to be an optimist
I thought the same mama. Maybe the Pope stirred something in his dark soul and he decided he had to make a pact with the Devil incarnate Democrats to avoid a shutdown and a complete political disaster in 2016 so he pulled the plug and is now immune from shrill threats of punishment is he didn't toe the Ken Buck line. It frees the man up to cut a deal which just might make Democrats look good in the process but is bedrock good for the country. The big IF is can he pull it off.
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