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Well, since Boehner will no longer be plagued by the House nut jobs to remove him as Speaker, maybe he will work with the Dems and a few sensible Rs and avoid another Republican Shutdown, that he knows would further damage the Party.
For those who would celebrate Boehner's departure, I would caution you to be careful for what you wish.
We just saw a most embarrassing moment in Congress with Rubio making the announcement, and a couple dozen, I presume Tea Part nut jobs, stand up to applaud.
Whatever else you may think about Boehner...and he is, in spite of the appearance of a drunk, a VERY solid human being who comes from a humble background, and focuses his personal efforts of helping children from disadvantaged backgrounds to have a fighting chance in life.
Boehner has kept the right wingers in the fold, while balancing their quackery with more main stream republicans. No simple task.
So imagine, if you think our government is dysfunctional now, you have a free wheeling right wing nut job faction, a centrist group of republicans...a likely Democratic White House....and NOBODY who can put it all together. McConnell? Bwahhhaaaaaa
And then think about that panel of eleven we saw the other night.....one of those is by definition, likely to be the Republican nominee. Would you have any of them, save for Fiorina, run a high school, let along the Country? Paul? Rubio? Trump? Huckabee? We're talking leader of the free world; President. Not cub scout leader with an anti gay agenda.
Boehner was a master at keeping the wheels on the Republican clown car. His departure throws our government further into chaos. Not a good development
What we are left with is a disconnected group incapable of any achievable reality in Government.
Mark my words, this is NOT a good development for America.
This post bears repeating. I wish I had written it.
By definition, RINO are the Tea Party, as they are not the majority and the Establishment are the ones who define what a Republican actually is by current standards.
Obama is so far left , he pulled the established Republican party into the slot of Democrat..
The Obama crowd are the socialists., they followed Obama right into socialism.. the Tea Party are the WE THE PEOPLE , who are the new reborn Republican party. That was the transition Obama worked on while in office these past years. Socialism , pulling hard left.
For those who would celebrate Boehner's departure, I would caution you to be careful for what you wish.
We just saw a most embarrassing moment in Congress with Rubio making the announcement, and a couple dozen, I presume Tea Part nut jobs, stand up to applaud.
Whatever else you may think about Boehner...and he is, in spite of the appearance of a drunk, a VERY solid human being who comes from a humble background, and focuses his personal efforts of helping children from disadvantaged backgrounds to have a fighting chance in life.
Boehner has kept the right wingers in the fold, while balancing their quackery with more main stream republicans. No simple task.
So imagine, if you think our government is dysfunctional now, you have a free wheeling right wing nut job faction, a centrist group of republicans...a likely Democratic White House....and NOBODY who can put it all together. McConnell? Bwahhhaaaaaa
And then think about that panel of eleven we saw the other night.....one of those is by definition, likely to be the Republican nominee. Would you have any of them, save for Fiorina, run a high school, let along the Country? Paul? Rubio? Trump? Huckabee? We're talking leader of the free world; President. Not cub scout leader with an anti gay agenda.
Boehner was a master at keeping the wheels on the Republican clown car. His departure throws our government further into chaos. Not a good development
What we are left with is a disconnected group incapable of any achievable reality in Government.
Mark my words, this is NOT a good development for America.
Nice post - the vocal minority are loud, but they have NEVER had enough votes to force Boehner out.
He is 66 years old and has been a CongressCritter since 1992 - He clearly has had enough of the "clown car" that he has tried to steer. I imagine that he thought today was the "right" day because he achieved a 20 year effort to bring The Pope to the US Capitol. I expect he will enjoy his retirement - as he should. I won't forget that from the day he was elected in 1992 - John Boehner never traded his votes for Ear Marks. I also won't forget that he managed to turn the Obama "sequester" against Obama and stop the huge growth in spending. I won't forget that he tried to incorporate the newby "Tea Party" people into committees and to listen to their ideas .... he deserves credit for holding it together under the Most Lawless Administration I've seen in my life time.
It won't be a member of that "clown car" that takes over for Boehner - they have always been a minority. The Leftists call Boehner a "crybaby drunk" and the Nutty Right wingers slurp up their rhetoric. The next Speaker will have to deal with the same idiots.
Kevin McCarthy will certainly be in the hunt, but I think Jeb Hensarling will be also. There have been many attempts over the last several years to get Hensarling to challenge Boehner, and he has turned them all down. I think both these men know what they will face from the totally uneducated who have no clue about how the process works in the Legislature or the Congress.
I would say individually- many are good decent people- help the charities- good parents- and so forth-- but when they unite to preform political duties -you have peer pressure and back stabbing and relationship brawls with big corps- and so forth
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