Boehner to Resign in October
 

Good he totally sucked......

So who is stepping up?

This should prove very interesting - a knockdown, drag-out fight for the soul of the GOP. Is it the corporate lackeys of the establishment wing or the divorced-from-reality Teabaggers. There Will Be Blood.

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/...8_1129330a.jpg

Hopefully they will hemorrhage, bleed to death, and a new party standard will arise - just dreaming I know.

Awesome!

I hope he gets replaced with the most batshit crazy bagger there is.

House Speaker Boehner to resign from Congress at end of October
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/...0RP1GT20150925

May your dream come true. :)

Hopefully someone just like you.

Maybe the GOP will pick the David Duke guy without the baggage. Isn't he number three?
There is always those Dixiecrats like Goehmert or xenophobes like King from Iowa.

A perfect comeback. :D
Seriously a bagger does not have a chance but there will be a fight, hopefully a long and bloody fight into 2016. Question I have to the OP is why would any sane person want to 'step up'. So only crazies need to apply.

McCarthy will be as bad if not worse. :rolleyes:

... at herding dyspeptic cats.

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/0...october-214056

I think I'm leaning towards this interpretation--with a little less hype, the selflessness must be tempered by recognizing the attraction of a cozy retirement from a stressful job, as well as going out doing a Good Thing. But if he's spared us a shutdown fight over Planned Parenthood, that's good for everyone--not least the Republicans, of course....

McCarthy won't last.

No doubt sick of dealing with the likes of you, 5 below.Who gives a shit.

As soon as I heard the news, Hensarling's name ran through my brain. Not something you'd really want first thing in the morning.

Rep. Paul Ryan says he does not want House speakership

Smart guy.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/...0RP1MS20150925

So who has a government job? Sucking up taxes that isn't needed. Could it be he doesn't want to be head of the shutdown?

So Boner who was once considered far right as one of Gingrich's gang of seven that gave us the "Contract on America" has now been run out of Dodge for being a RINO. That shows you just how far to the right the Republican Party has moved.

Louie Gohmert, Ted Cruz, Pete Sessions, Steve Scalise, Dan Burton, Mike Pence, Joe Wilson, Mike Lee .......

Good thing for them the world was proved not to be flat.

Bam! :D

I'm hoping this guy gets the nod.

https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/i...NJmQUFMWgw3eRQ

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics...unning-asylum/

The inimitable Charlie Pierce... ;)

"Welcome to the monkeyhouse, America. The prion disease afflicting the Republican party finally has devoured the last vestiges of the Republican party's higher functions. I had as many problems with Boehner as Speaker as anyone did, but, dammit, he at least believed that the government should keep running. And, as much as the Times wants to believe it, this has nothing to do with the "challenges of divided government," and everything to do with the fact that the modern Republican party, especially in the House of Representatives, is completely demented."

Amazing isn't....all these government workers trying to "clean up Washington":rolleyes:

You're an ass, IMHO.

An interesting turn of events, but whether it turns out to be a good thing or not remains to be seen.

Pretty much how I see it.

Same here.

The Republican Party is in a self destructive death spiral.

Given their present irredeemable state, I have to believe that would be best for the country but I don't think they're going anywhere. There are too many voters in too many Gerrymandered states who like them just the way they are. If anything is in a death spiral, it's the country as a whole.

Republicans run on a platform that government is broken and dysfunctional and, when elected, do their damnedest to prove it.

Exactly.

The GOP has spent decades courting lunatics, idiots and the ruthlessly greedy simply to get their votes without ever delivering on promises made. Now, the bill has come due. The crazies want exactly what they have been voting for.

I'm thinking that unless we are very, very lucky what replaces Boehner will be far worse.

It'll likely be McCarthy, despite considerable squawking from the 'Bagger caucus and their cheerleaders on Talk Radio. He'll likely prove even weaker than Boehner in dealing with the Baggers.

Meanwhile, Ted Cruz will become de facto leader of the House 'Bagger faction (if he isn't already). It's gonna get ugly/silly, to the definite benefit of the Democrats. The circular firing squad is going to be throwing hand grenades.

I think it'll be Hensarling as the compromise candidate. He's alreaady in the leadership and would be more acceptable to the 'baggers than McCarthy.

Yes, I think he already is. I find it astonishing that Cruz is allowed to get away with openly meddling in the business of the Lower House. It's a clear indication, IMO, of the utter weakness and ineptitude of the Senate Republican leadership that he hasn't been reined in.

Interesting.

You all are clearly more in tune with politics than I am.

When it comes to Republican party rhetoric my mind keeps flashing back to an old article on religious camps, as in summer camps for kids. Someone, somewhere, discovered that people want a serious, quiet, and contemplative forum. How that compares with the latest polls I have no idea. But the article stuck with me because serious, quiet, and contemplative is what I hoped for in the Republican party. Instead the party got noisier until I had to leave; not just the party, but politics in general.

It will be a while until I vote again.

Could be, but there are plenty of establishment types totally pissed and frustrated with the Baggers (e.g., Peter King) and may prove unwilling to throw them a bone.

We did those summer camps up in the Angeles Forest (Methodist) when I was kid. Fun times. :)

Please reconsider voting, Ed. We lefties need all the help we can get.

I hope so. I'd love to see a strong Repub speaker put these nihinistic, bitter ender Teabagger punks in their place.

Yes, even if the help is in the form of voting for sane and civil Republicans. There will always be.... should always be a conservative party as a counterbalance to the liberals and vice versa. We don't have that now.

Agreed. Well said, old friend.

You can claim to support Trump and all the lefties here will forgive you for your sins.:)

I was reading this over at ThinkProgress...yeah, I know but it seemed like a fairly accurate reading of the situation by Ian Millhiser.

"John Boehner May Have Been The Only Thing Standing Between America And Madness"

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/201...a-and-madness/

http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...s-leaving.html

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