Boehner to resign

[BoyNextDoor]

The GOP is going to get what they asked for in the House in terms of leadership, and the backlash will be a Democratic President and a Democratic majority in the Senate.

I am still waiting for the repeal of "Obamacare" to get to the President's desk. Where is the outrage that the GOP has not delivered on that promise?

 

[Sean Renaud]

Your optimism is encouraging BND. Even if I don't feel it just yet.

 

[Aglaopheme]

The GOP is going to get what they asked for in the House in terms of leadership, and the backlash will be a Democratic President and a Democratic majority in the Senate.

I am still waiting for the repeal of "Obamacare" to get to the President's desk. Where is the outrage that the GOP has not delivered on that promise?

Exactly, although I think it was going to transpire anyway.

The ACA is here to stay. Now they need to step up and work on making it better.

 

[BoyNextDoor]

Exactly, although I think it was going to transpire anyway.

The ACA is here to stay. Now they need to step up and work on making it better.

I spoke too soon:

House Republicans advance bill to undo health law

It is "filibuster proof" because they are going to use the reconciliation rules.

 

[Aglaopheme]

I spoke too soon:

House Republicans advance bill to undo health law

It is "filibuster proof" because they are going to use the reconciliation rules.

The party of stupid is going full steam ahead. They really do enjoy wasting their time pandering to the lowest of the low. Prodded to do their pandering with fear of big money primarying them. Prodded to perpetuate the fear with lies for the very same reason.

 

[JackLuis]

GOP ‘Freedom Caucus’ backs Florida Rep. Webster before House Speaker vote

small but outspoken group of Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday threw their support behind Representative Daniel Webster as their choice to become speaker, replacing the retiring John Boehner.

Representatives John Fleming and Jim Jordan told reporters that the House “Freedom Caucus” members cast their votes for Webster, a Florida Republican. The move could complicate efforts by front-runner House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy to win the speakership.

Thank God Cruz is in the Senate, or the Teahiddists would totally fuck up the nation.

 

[JackLuis]

Wikipedia page for Kevin McCarthy altered to include allegation of affair with congresswoman

Oh, allegations on Wikipedia page? I wonder who did that?

Someone using an Internet address from the Department of Homeland Security made edits Thursday to the Wikipedia pages of House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Rep. Renee Ellmers, alleging that the two members of Congress were having an affair, the Daily Caller reported.

It is not clear if someone at the DHS made the edits, but the changes on both articles were made by a user at the IP address 216.81.81.85, which is registered to the federal agency’s office in Springfield, Virginia. The changes were originally noted by Washington Free Beacon reporter Lachlan Markay.

Perhaps the Administration is fighting back?

 

[JackLuis]

Romney calls Paul Ryan ‘man of ideas’ after discussing possible House Speaker run

Former Massachusetts governor and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, after speaking with Representative Paul Ryan about the race for speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, said on Friday that Ryan was a “man of ideas.”

“I wouldn’t presume to tell Paul what to do, but I do know that he is a man of ideas who is driven to see them applied for the public good,” Romney said in a statement provided to Reuters after he spoke by telephone with Ryan, who is being urged to run for the top House post.

“Every politician tries to convince people that they are that kind of leader; almost none are – Paul is. Paul has a driving passion to get America back on a path of growth and opportunity,” he added. “With Paul, it’s not just words, it’s in his heart and soul.”

Oh another Idea Man. Ryan is saying he doesn't want to be speaker and leader of the Teapublicans. Good Idea, eh?

 

[JackLuis]

The wingnuts are after Paul Ryan’s scalp: “The man’s a menace”

With reports that both John Boehner and Kevin McCarthy are begging Rep. Paul Ryan to run for House Speaker and the editors at NRO calling on him to fall on his sword for the good of the party, Ryan will have to look past the fawning to see the trap the GOP establishment is laying for him.

While calls for Ryan to jump into the speaker’s race may be mounting, they are hardly deep enough to be emanating from the right-wing base, which seems to be working up its machine to lay claim to its third “establishment” victim in two weeks.

The Federalist is encouraging its readers to “relax” following news of Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s sudden withdrawal from the race to replace John Boehner as speaker, arguing that “this is exactly how Congress should work.” David Harsanyi contends that “when it comes to the House, ‘chaos’ can be preferable to lockstepping.”

Insufficiently Derpy, I guess?

 

[RjThoughts]

Why doesn't the Tea Party and other "Further Right of Boehner" just create their own freaking party so we can get shit done in Congress?

 

[phrodeau]

Why doesn't the Tea Party and other "Further Right of Boehner" just create their own freaking party so we can get shit done in Congress?

Because now they are part of the majority party, and they don't want to get shit done.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Besides even if the REpublicans proper or RINOs or whatever you want to call them were left behind as long as they stay the course nothing would change. AT least in the short term.

 

[Aglaopheme]

Wikipedia page for Kevin McCarthy altered to include allegation of affair with congresswoman

Oh, allegations on Wikipedia page? I wonder who did that?



Perhaps the Administration is fighting back?

That's funny, but the "story" has been around for years but no one gave a crap.

The wingnuts are after Paul Ryan’s scalp: “The man’s a menace”



Insufficiently Derpy, I guess?

My dreams have been dashed.

 

[Aglaopheme]

Besides even if the REpublicans proper or RINOs or whatever you want to call them were left behind as long as they stay the course nothing would change. AT least in the short term.

I think they could actually accomplish something if they weren't afraid of a primary coming from the far right.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Nice AV. . . I can't find your eyes. . .

Maybe but I don't think the Tea Party separating would actually stop Republicans from getting hit from the far right. It would just create a new party and one of two things would happen. They'd either cannibalize the conservative vote and Democrats would win (which is plausible for a cycle or two) or they'd kiss and make up because anything is better than a lib. And history tells us that second one would happen eventually it's just a matter of how long it takes.

 

[Aglaopheme]

Nice AV. . . I can't find your eyes. . .

Maybe but I don't think the Tea Party separating would actually stop Republicans from getting hit from the far right. It would just create a new party and one of two things would happen. They'd either cannibalize the conservative vote and Democrats would win (which is plausible for a cycle or two) or they'd kiss and make up because anything is better than a lib. And history tells us that second one would happen eventually it's just a matter of how long it takes.

Ha! I was feeing particularly saucy that day.

I think they're screwed as far as the WH and Senate go in 2016. I hope it takes a very long time to get to the kissing. We'll see how they handle this Speakership fiasco.

 

[JackLuis]

A historian explains the real reason Republicans can’t find a Speaker of the House

Republicans cannot find a Speaker of the House for one reason: they are reaping what they have sown. The base of the party has been promised for over forty years that the social issues Republicans candidates have supported will become federal policy if they are elected—and yet here we stand with abortion legal, immigration run amok, and gay marriage recognized by the Supreme Court. And then there is the oath for smaller government and lower taxes. The voters who bought into all of the Republican promises are simply fed up. They feel like there has been a massive bait and switch campaign sponsored by their own party’s leaders for almost half a century now. Thus, we have the current crisis in the House and the persistent threat of government shutdown.

We did not get here by fluke or accident. Some brilliant political theorists back in 1970 predicted that the “Social Issue” was going to replace the issue of prosperity with order in national politics. Richard Scammon and Ben Wattenberg wrote a book, The Real Majority, that became the Bible for Richard Nixon and his domestic advisor Chuck Colson. Like the authors, Nixon and Colson foresaw the massive transformation that was taking place in national politics in reaction to the excesses of the New Deal, the Great Society, and the social chaos churned up by the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights movement.

Short explanation: The Republicans spout bullshit and never follow up, because it's BS, so the base has tacked further to the right. Enough so even the Repub's can't keep their shit straight.

 

[KingOrfeo]

A historian explains the real reason Republicans can’t find a Speaker of the House



Short explanation: The Republicans spout bullshit and never follow up, because it's BS, so the base has tacked further to the right. Enough so even the Repub's can't keep their shit straight.

"excesses of the New Deal"?!

 

[Aglaopheme]

After so much back and forth, Ryan is still considering take the Speakership position. I'm sure he's being pressured heavily to take the job. I hope he does. There is no one else I'd rather see in the hot seat.

 

[JackLuis]

After so much back and forth, Ryan is still considering take the Speakership position. I'm sure he's being pressured heavily to take the job. I hope he does. There is no one else I'd rather see in the hot seat.

I agree with you that Paul will have hard time as speaker. I doubt that he will be more effective than Boner, what with the %age of Wingnuts in his caucus.

 

[JackLuis]

Wanted: A Speaker For the Whole House of Representatives

The United States desperately needs a speaker of the House of Representatives, an important constitutional office that has largely gone unfilled for more than a quarter of a century.

John Boehner, of course, claimed the title, as have a succession of others, of both parties, but it has been a long time since anybody actually functioned as speaker; like Boehner—and, sad to say, probably like whoever will now succeed him—they actually have been speakers for the Democratic or Republican Party, concerned not with effectuating the will of the majority of our representatives but with doing whatever suits the policy agenda of the club they belong to. The idea of enacting legislation favored by a combination of Republicans and Democrats who together make up a majority of the House has seemed beyond comprehension, and yet, that is the fundamental premise of representative democracy. It was, in fact, the operating premise—at least for a while—of the long-ago Congress in which I served.

Isn't that idea a Rino idea?

 

[JackLuis]

Senate Democrat Reid on House speaker job: I’m a Paul Ryan fan


An endorsement or Kiss of Death?

 

[JackLuis]

Paul Ryan tells House GOP: I’ll run for Speaker if all of you fall in line behind me

U.S. Representative Paul Ryan will run for House of Representatives speaker if he receives endorsements from all factions of the deeply divided Republican members, a Ryan spokesman said on Tuesday.

“If the members agree with his requests and share his vision, and if he is a unity candidate — with the endorsement of all the conference’s major caucuses — then he will serve as speaker. He will be all in,” Ryan spokesman Brendan Buck said in a statement after a closed-door meeting of House Republicans that Ryan addressed.

I guess he wants to be a leader with followers? Good luck herding those cats.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Paul Ryan tells House GOP: I’ll run for Speaker if all of you fall in line behind me

It don't look like they're gonna.

 

[JackLuis]

House conservatives frosty on Ryan for speaker

Hard-line conservative Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday were not rallying behind Paul Ryan’s bid to be the next speaker, as party turmoil again overshadowed debt and budget issues that could rattle markets.

Ryan, who ran for vice president in 2012, on Tuesday said he would seek the top House job, which the majority Republicans have struggled to fill, but only under certain conditions, including endorsements by Friday of various Republican factions.

So far, no such support was evident, though the right-wing Freedom Caucus of about 40 of the House’s 247 Republican members planned to huddle with Ryan on Wednesday.

yep, Teahaddists want their own Speaker.

As Boehner announced his support of Ryan, some Freedom Caucus members said they still backed their own contender, Representative Daniel Webster of Florida, although they were willing to listen to what Ryan has to offer.

Idaho Republican Representative Raul Labrador, a caucus member, told reporters Ryan “could be a good speaker” but added: “My only concern right now is it appears he is asking for more power to be in office instead of less power,” referring to Ryan’s demand that House rules be changed so that individual members could no longer force floor votes to oust the speaker.